Cecil’s Top Ten Things to Do While Waiting for #MTTS2016

Yesterday, as many MINI owners know, MINIUSA announced the dates for MINI Takes The States 2016 (or as Cecil likes to call it “MINIons Take The States”). This would have caused the Interwebs to explode except that the San Diego Comic Con was also going on and it exploded because of various things happening there. So now it’s 365 days (thank you leap year) until people get together for this amazing event. What are you going to do until then? Cecil has some ideas:

1. Practice how to drive in a line following other MINIs by attending MINI on the Mack in August or other MINI related events.

2. Wash your MINI (If you have one.  If not buy and MINI and then wash it) because you’re going to want a clean place to put all the MTTS graphics you are going to buy so you can be like the cool kids.

3. Create a Kickstarter Campaign to help fund your trip. (Funyuns don’t grow on trees ya know!)

4. Watch “the Italian Job” at least 365 times (both versions) so you can quote them verbatim – “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” You could also go back and review some of the My Geek Odyssey Comics dealing with MTTS (shameless plug)

5. Change your oil.  No really you should, every 5,000 miles.  You might also want to rotate your tires too.  Getting your MINI into service and checked out before you head out is a good idea.

6. Post how excited you are on every form of social media – twitter, facebook, ello, periscope, tumblr, vine… Sorry if I missed any important ones, I lose track, there are so many.

7. Learn to pack 14 days worth of clothes into a small suitcase.  Remember you can never have enough black t-shirts! (unless you’re Dallas and he can never have enough tie-dyed shirts)

8. Start a blog to tell the world how excited you are (make sure to post on social media about your blog)

9. Learn to say “I’m going all the way” without giggling.

10. Complain about not knowing the route. When the route is posted, complain about where it goes, the cities, the hotels, the venues.  Come up with new and different reasons to complain- the more unique the better.

10+. Listen to White Roof Radio, since the podcast is awesome and the guys will be reporting along the route, and keeping us laughing (groaning) every morning!

Anything Cecil missed?  Add it in the comments.