Date:    Sunday, April 17
Time:    10 a.m.
Place:   Stagecoach Inn Museum  
            Ventu Park Rd. & Lynn Rd.
            Thousand Oaks
Host:    Gwen Vilbrandt
            805.287.6838 W
            805.404.0939 C

Please RSVP by April 15

Description: Just paid the taxman? Nerves frayed? Wallet empty? Come join your Miata friends in a relaxing, casual (did I say non-taxing?) run through the northern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. We'll meander through Hidden Valley to see ranches of the stars, cruise Decker Canyon to the ocean with a stop on a breathtaking bluff to watch waves break gently on the shore below. We'll polish off the run with a spin down the coast to Kanan Road and end with a casual lunch at either Chuy's or Islands.

Directions: From the South, L.A. County, etc.: Take whatever road is convenient to the 101 Freeway North to Thousand Oaks. Exit at Ventu Park Road and turn left over the freeway. Proceed about 1/4 mile to Lynn road, turn right. Make an immediate right into the driveway (parking lot entrance) of the Stagecoach Inn Museum.

From the North: Take the 101 Freeway South to Ventu Park Road, turn right. Proceed about 1/4 mile to Lynn road, turn right. Make an immediate right into the driveway (parking lot entrance) of the Stagecoach Inn Museum.

For those of you who want to get their early, I'll be having breakfast at Dupar's at 8:30 a.m. It is on the frontage road by the freeway, two exists south of Ventu Park Road. Exit Moorpark Road, turn right. Get over to the left immediately and make a left turn onto Thousand Oaks Blvd. It makes a tight, left, bottom-to-top S Curve, keep turning left. Dupar's is just around the curve on the right. From the north, exist Moorpark Road and turn left onto Thousand Oaks Blvd. Keep to the left and make that tight left S curve and go around the curve until you see Dupar's on the right.