An even more telling factor then distance to be traveled, is time.
These are from MapQuest and take into account speed limits
To Centerville (hours:minutes)
Dallas 1:56
Houston 1:49
Austin 2:50
San Antonio 4:03 (Any wonder nobody showed?)
Centerville is center to Houston and Dallas. (Brownwood is center to Texas, which means nowhere near!)

To Austin
Dallas 3:08
Houston 2:45
San Antonio 1:10


So, just looking at the map and not running the numbers, a spot north of Bryan is center to the four,
Wait.......
That is real close to Berry Hill !
I'm there.

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1984 300d
1999 Prelude
Medici road bike
Klein touring bike
Klein mtn bike

Thank you!!

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

Keep in mind that the Centerville get together was originally intended as a Houston/DFW get together, folks from other cities showed up and it turned into a statewide get together.

Also, your comment about it being 4 hrs from San Antonio being the reason nobody from that city showed up is wrong. We had no active members from San Antonio at that time, not to mention people came from as far away as Mississippi which is quite more than a 4 hr drive last time I checked.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Her output might be on the menu but, I don't think she'll deliver soon enough. Anyway, there are mucho feral pigs out at BHF. I'll give everyone a sharp stick to poke at them with...

FYI, BHF is about 50 miles from Bryan.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Milano sounds perfect to me!

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2009 VW TDI Jetta Sportwagon 172k miles (rear-ended harder than Elton John on 8/4/13. Total loss)

1991 Volvo 240 142k miles (T-boned by a stop sign runner. Total loss)

I am really liking the idea of a picnic at BerryHill TX.

My idea behind this get together is to have something more "intimate" than in Centerville; and a state-wide get together hardly qualifies as intimate.

NOW... Flamesuit on
A detail from the July GTG that ticked me off was the overwhelming presence of "lifeless" brand-new showy cars. I don't know if others felt that way, but there was 2 class of people: the old junker crowd and the rich crowd. Conversations were not easy between the 2 groups...The E-class AMG and the SL600 were neat but the guys driving them did not hold a great interest in conversations with dieselheads...

I want an old glory/junker/dieselhead oh and a SLR...

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Aquilae non capunt muscas! (Eagles don't hunt flies!)


1979 300SD Black/Black MBtex239000mi
1983 300TD euro-NA. White/Olive Cloth-MBtex 201000mi. Fleet car of the USA embassy in Morocco
1983 240D Labrador Blue/Blue MBtex 161000mi

IMHO, the SL600 guy should have opened the hood on that beast. Compression or spark, it's still a Benz. That said, you gotta face it there's going to be a bell curve of owners ranging from gearhead enthusiasts to those with $$$ and the two have little but a love of the marque in common.

I'm all for a GTG at 'the farm'...if there's enough intrest, I'll even rent a port-a-jon...but, I'd be hard-pressed to match H-townbenzoboy's feat.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

I asked him to open the hood, got a pic of the engine too, had a AMG plaque on it with someone's signiture on it.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

So, I should bring the Benz and the .270?

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2009 VW TDI Jetta Sportwagon 172k miles (rear-ended harder than Elton John on 8/4/13. Total loss)

1991 Volvo 240 142k miles (T-boned by a stop sign runner. Total loss)

Not much to see there. *sigh*

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

My whole point. Modern cars with all those engine covers, heat shields, ... are not really that interesting to look at... And if their owner has never explore it under all that fluff, he is not that interesting either.

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Aquilae non capunt muscas! (Eagles don't hunt flies!)


1979 300SD Black/Black MBtex239000mi
1983 300TD euro-NA. White/Olive Cloth-MBtex 201000mi. Fleet car of the USA embassy in Morocco
1983 240D Labrador Blue/Blue MBtex 161000mi

First thing I did on my TDI was take that darn engine cover off and put it in storage. I love popping my hood and seeing the beautiful, immaculate, tiny diesel

Seems odd that a non-enthusiast would end up at a GTG.

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

How do you know that car's owner is a non-enthusiast? Have you spoken with him?

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

I think that is what he is trying to say, H-Town......

I don't really have any issue with anybody who wants to show up, but I will have a lot more points of interest with the guys with the oil stained hands...... (like mine )

This would also be a good chance to see the straw bale structure.

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Yeah I didn't really mean it like that. I mean my boss is a car enthusiast, but he doesn't care too much about what the engine looks like as he does how it drives. He would never be seen with a car older than a few years and once they hit 80k miles, it's time for a trade-in.

When I say "enthusiast", I mean you know, like us

So when somebody whom I described above (the new car enthusiast) shows up at a MB GTG, I find it surprising. That's all. Not trying to offend.

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon