This looks like fun

[h2co-pilot]

This is a resort and spa that you can bring the hummer to. They have golf, paintball and all sorts of stuff. Thump on the trail all day and then get a facial....beautiful. They even have a 4x4 school and you can drive their H2's. It's in PA - check out the packages.

http://www.nemacolin.com/recreation_...rivingClub.asp

[h2co-pilot]

This is a resort and spa that you can bring the hummer to. They have golf, paintball and all sorts of stuff. Thump on the trail all day and then get a facial....beautiful. They even have a 4x4 school and you can drive their H2's. It's in PA - check out the packages.

http://www.nemacolin.com/recreation_...rivingClub.asp

[oma]

Awesome! I wonder how they came up with this idea at a spa and how successful it is?

[KenP]

They probably added the spa after all the wives complained aobut the dust, dirt and mud. What a way to make some cash.

Who wants to go? Copilot and I will do it.

[frank6150]

That place has been around for a while. I know the owner fairly well, he is a damn nice guy and quite an offroad fan. I have a voucher for there that he gave me but I have yet to use it. Let me know your plans on going Ken since the future wife has been on my ass to get up there. It's only about 40 minutes or so from my house.

[KenP]

Frank, that would be great. Anyone else?
I don't know when we could do it, we have alot on our plate this summer. But the wife wants to go, big time. Give us a few days so we can try and work it in. I'll let you know soon.

[PARAGON]

<Table>
<DIV class=body-head><SPAN class=headline>Anyone can be a speed/adrenaline junky
for a day in Pennsylvania</SPAN>
<SPAN class=deck></SPAN>
<SPAN
class=byline>CHARLES SHEEHAN</SPAN>
<SPAN class=creditline>Associated
Press</SPAN>
</DIV>


<SPAN class=dateline>FARMINGTON, Pa.</SPAN><SPAN class=dateline-separator>
- </SPAN>As the truck rolls over the muddy bank and plunges into the depths,
muddy water splashes against the windows and washes over the hood in an instant.
The tires are sucked into the muck.</P>


At the steering wheel, fear is running laps around my spine, and it feels
like my feet might break through the floorboard - but the woman in the back seat
won't stop laughing.</P>


Rain had been falling steadily for 10 hours, transforming the forest floor to
standing water and burnt-almond mud - a perfect day for a drive in a rented
Hummer with a pro riding shotgun.</P>


Spring fever can strike particularly hard in Pennsylvania, where winter is
loathe to loose its grip.</P>


Fortunately, there are dozens of tracks and off-roading courses sprinkled
across the state where one can book a white-knuckle road trip sure to thaw even
the deepest winter-induced blues.</P>


Anyone who believes racing or off-roading is still a spectator sport, or that
only actors and millionaires can partake, has been steered wrong.</P>


You can spend as little as $25 for Friday Night Grudge Racing before a
thousand spectators at Maple Grove Raceway, in Mohnton, to determine once and
for all whether it is you or your pal who owns the fastest Yugo east of the
Mississippi.</P>


"Some people get out shaking after seeing the Christmas tree lights come down
and they go flying past the concrete guard walls," said George Alan Case, vice
president and general manager.</P>


Or you can drop $1,000 at the BeaveRun MotorSports Complex, in Wampum, and
round the bends at triple digits in a rented Formula One-style car.</P>


Whether it is a Ferrari Testarossa, or a Ford Tempo, a Hummer, or a Hyundai,
you can get in it and race it in Pennsylvania - no experience necessary.</P>


Track owners have recognized that almost everyone needs the occasional
adrenaline fix, so they've tailored packages to fit nearly every taste.</P>


At Nemacolin Woodlands Resort &amp; Spa, a posh retreat tucked away in
southwest Pennsylvania, visitors can buy the "Adventures in Mud" package, a
two-hour romp through the woods in a Hummer, followed by a Hungarian mud facial
that "remineralizes, hydrates and balances."</P>


At Nemacolin's Off-Road Driving Academy, you learn just what a Hummer is
capable of during training at "The Rock." Then you, and up to four pals, attack
severe terrain that, for reasons that become obvious very quickly, go by names
like "The Downhill Slide," "Awkward Descent" and the dastardly "Triple
Dipper."</P>


Later, perhaps, a serving of La Belle Farm guinea hen with buttered cabbage
and poached pear at Lautrec, Nemacolin's French bistro.</P>


Pig roast and beers more your speed?</P>


That's 90 miles to the north at BeaveRun MotorSports, where it's pork on a
spit and some suds after Hummer training and a day in the slop.</P>


"We'll teach you to work on pavement, gravel and dirt," said Danny Yanda,
general manager. "Then we'll take you through the woods and a run through bogs,
up steep hills, everything, and then out for the pig roast. It's a really good
time."</P>


The race track is by no means a temple of testosterone.</P>


About 35 percent of the people racing motorcycles at BeaveRun are women,
Yanda said.</P>


Steve Myers, a driving instructor at Nemacolin, said he's had children rocked
to sleep in child seats as mom and dad tear it up in a Hummer H2. The Hummer H1,
available for the same price, is a little rougher.</P>


It's $275 for the training and the Hummer. Anyone in the vehicle can take a
spin during the two-hour ride. It's $60 if you want to go "Driving Miss Daisy"
style, with a professional driver taking you for a ride.</P>


Despite gentle reminders from Myers to keep my thumbs out of the middle of
the steering wheel (to avoid sprains or broken bones), a jaunt over "Rutted
Out," through "In the Trees Serpentine" and down the "Awkward Descent" at
Nemacolin is surprisingly nonviolent.</P>


The Hummer H2, the type you see most often on the road with no mud on it, is
a pretty smooth ride given the extreme terrain. I only slammed the skid plate
once against a rock.</P>


And the H2 has heated seats, making the wait for your turn at the wheel quite
toasty as you watch mud, rocks and sticks splatter and smack off the
windows.</P></Table>

[KenP]

You coming Paragon?

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

If I had a female I'd go in a heart beat but do not want to be the third, fifth, seventh wheel whatever. If Your wife has an equally beuatiful sister unattached I got be talked into covering the cost Ken. I Love Pig on the spit and get off roading training for when I get to build My off road every day H2. Darn Ken how many hints do i have to leave You.
Rick

[PARAGON]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KenP:
You coming Paragon? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Probably not this year but it's my wife's kinda thing. So, it's a must do for the future.

After reading H2CP's vibrant description of driving your truck I might come anyway and your truck can be my date.

[h2co-pilot]

It is a pretty hot date

That thing needs a dumptruck escort just to tote it's balls.

[PARAGON]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by h2co-pilot:
That thing needs a dumptruck escort just to tote it's balls. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[h2co-pilot]

I found this today, I want to go so bad- next year. I want to to do the paintball too. It would have to be a whole week. No jeeps allowed either.

http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=100796

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

Looks cool Co-pilot.
I have been meaning to mention it. Arkansas has a great privately owned offroading park at Hot Springs.
Hot Springs Village is one of the fastest growing cities in US located closer to the park than Hot Springs. Hot Springs is a vacation dream and golf courses everywhere. All the gangsters in the 20's and 30's came there and owned homes. One that Al Capone owned had been a very up scale restaurant for ever and closed last year. The owners would not sell but, wanted to retire if I remember correctly and I guess turned it back to a mansion to live in. It is on a peninsula that had secret getaway to a boat dock. Anyway Hot Springs is surrounded by lakes and have the duck boat rides, carriages, all kinds of museums, You name it it is there. It is a real good vaction spot. It has Magic Springs Theme Park and water park. Of course the horse racing season is just ending there. But any who would like to look into the OR park it is orvpark.com called Superlift Off-Road Vehicle Park. They allow 4 wheelers, motocross, 4X4's and it is where We have our 2nd day of Hummer Happenings. I just go and ride and eat hot dogs. Let people look at My Mall Queen and they ask where did You get that and where did You get that. I enjoy them enjoying it. It has 3 different levels of courses and I'm told the hardest is not one You want to take something that You do not want damage to body or worse. It is diehard, bent up trucks or tube rock crawlers and the likes. The easy one is nice also and not super tame but stock H2's do fine and has great scenery. It is I think 600 acres or more. The nice thing about it is the quick access to other things of interest like hot spring baths that still operate at some of the hotels. Bath House Row that everyone keeps talking about opening them all back up but, no one does. Many are museums and look like they did in 30's. Muds baths, massages, all the stuff the ladies would enjoy and hand crafted shops and more places to blow money on some stuff I just do not see the use for except to get somebody to blow money on it. Lots of rock shops and crystal shops. Big crystal mine there or was may be closed now.
Well it is just a great area to visit for vacation for a couple or a family and the off-road park has a calender on website that shows special things that are going on. I think a family could easily come and stay a week and not come close to seeing and doing everything in the area. It is not a great big drive to go over to the Crator of Diamonds State park and dig for diamonds. There are a few people who actually go there every day and dig and make a living of some kind. You are allowed to keep what You find. I think one of the larger diamonds in the world was found there. The state plows and turns the dirt over every few days to keep rolling up more diamonds.
Well have entended to mention this place and kept forgetting and Your find reminded me.
Tell Kenny Hi.
TAZ

[h2co-pilot]

That sounds really cool and pretty!!! I'll have to look into it!