COST TO JOIN IS $22.50/PERSON, OR $45/COUPLE
COST TO JOIN THE CLUB
This is a one time fee that covers your first year dues and your membership badge. You can send a check to Philip Bishop-Treasurer for $22.50 per person or $45 per couple.
ANNUAL DUES THEREAFTER ARE ONLY $10./SINGLE, $20,/COUPLE.
Twice a year we produce an electronic Membership Directory that includes the information from application for each member and their picture.
By completing our application and joining, you agree to allow us to print your information in our Membership Directory. The directory information is not to be used for anything other than chapter activities/business.
Great value
Where can you have this much fun for $10. per year?
Congratulations New Member!
read our First Timers Primer to know what to expect..........
1. Please bring your name badges - and WEAR THEM. Name badges help all of us get and stay acquainted with each other.
2. On some outings, we will be asked to wear our Cuatro Estado T-shirts (particularly at FRVA Chapter Fairs) to be recognizable to others. We encourage you to buy and wear a T-shirt.
3. Unless specified otherwise, please bring your own ‘mess kit’ (plate, utensils, napkin, etc.) and drink to all gatherings – which usually take place outdoors at rally master's rig. Bring folding chairs too (which you can sometimes leave set up for the duration of the rally if you wish). Bring a small table for yourselves if don’t want to hold your plate in your lap. If you have a larger folding table to help us with a place for snacks & potlucks, check with rally master to see if they need it.
4. A few of our rally locations have a rec building or club house for our use. If so, most are set up with tables & chairs and so we will usually hold potlucks and perhaps even happy hours there.
5. If allowed, “real” campfires may be on the evening schedule; bring firewood if you have some, or we may set up a propane firepit to gather around. If you have a musical talent, guitars, or other instruments let the rally master know. We love a sing-along.
6. Sometimes our rally masters will ask us to bring a light snack to share for a happy hour, or sometimes a dish for a pot luck.
7. We use GMRS/FRS radios to communicate while touring in our tow vehicles. If you have a family/walkie-talkie radio, please bring it. If you don’t have any, many of us carry extra. Rally masters will announce the channel we will be on and do a radio check before departing.
8. On day trip exploration drives, make sure you have enough fuel for the trip. And try to double up with others, sharing rides… just make sure you both want to do the same things and/or be gone as long. If someone invites you to ride with them it is appropriate to reciprocate on another trip or offer to pay for part of the fuel as a thank you.
9. Whether drives or hikes or whatever, remember to bring enough water! And always snacks. Even if a lunch isn’t requested, many times that may turn into lunch. Also suggest keep a jacket handy. In the high mountains where we hold so many summer rallies, it can turn cold & windy really quick.
10. REMEMBER: Everything we offer at a rally is optional -- day trips, meals, hikes, and any other scheduled activities. We hopefully attend a rally to SHARE adventures, but if you’d rather spend the day reading a book, or going on a long hike by yourself or whatever, that’s fine. We’re a bunch of very independent people, and it’s perfectly acceptable if you want to hike, or bike ride, or go kayaking instead of that day’s scheduled drive… and if you want company doing it, you’ll usually find someone else who’d rather do that too!
11. Most importantly, come prepared to make new friends and see old friends. Expect to have a lot of - Fun, Food, Fellowship and Adventure!