History

Escapees RV Club - Chapter #6 - Michigan Area Chartered on September 9,1984, Great Lakes Chapter #6 now averages 150 member families. Our Geographic area is the state of Michigan; however, we are proud to have members from all over the country. We are very committed to the Escapee philosophy of “Caring and Sharing”. We pride our selves on leading the way in gathering donations for the Escapee’s CARE program. Check the Upcoming Rallies in the Pages menu below.

Note: You DO NOT have to be a member of Escapees RV Club to attend up to 3 of our events. This gives you a chance to check us out before committing to a membership.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Wednesday's Social Hour

Mike & Ida at the Chapter 6 table on Chapter Row

Wednesday's combined Social Hour with Chapters 36 & 51


Monday, July 25, 2016

Escapade 2016

Doug & Anna presenting Miss Kay with the check for our 54th patch.


Monday, July 18, 2016

Rolling Rally to Escapade in Essex Junction Vermont

Sunday afternoon social and information meeting 7/17/2016 at Belleville MI

 Monday afternoon at our first stop Evergreen Lake Park Conneaut OH


Tuesday we drove from Evergreen Lake Park to the Chemung County Fairgrounds in Horseheads New York.  We now have 14 rigs in the group.

Lori took this picture of our rig stopped in a Busses Only Zone while I took the 2 pictures below of Chautauqua Lake.



Our rigs parked at the fairgrounds

20 of us went to dinner at Curly's Chicken House, sorry no pictures.

The Carlson's brought their pet turtle

Some of us sat out for a while after dinner.

Wednesday July 20 Chemung County Fairgrounds Horseheads NY
Today is a lay-over day for the Chapter 6 rolling rally. Some folks are going to visit Corning and some are driving up to Watkins Glen and some are just hanging out. Doug & Anna and Mike & Ida have left already this morning heading to our next stop. We hope Greg & Kathy get their 5th wheel fixed and can catch up with us.

Greg and Kathy got here about 12:15 after spending the night in an abandoned gas station.  The RV repairman got them back on the road this morning.

4:00 Social hour



12 of us went to dinner at Cracker Barrel

We had another gathering after dinner talking about the days activities and sat out until almost 9:00.

Thursday July 21 Washington County Fairgrounds Greenwich NY


This is our last stop before making the final 112 mile trek up to Escapade in Essex Junction Vermont. 
 At the Ice Cream shop around the corner from the fairgrounds


Monday, July 11, 2016

Ch#6 Summer Rally

Monday July 11 2016 Wayne County Fairgrounds Belleville Michigan
Two days until the official start of the Rally.  We arrived about 23:30pm and there were already 5 rigs here.
Roger & Diane our Rally Hosts, Dale & Barb our parking crew, Jim & Linda, Leslie, and one other non-Ch#6.  After we got set-up Bob & Barb Arrived.  We had a 4:00 social with everyone.  At 5:00 7 of us went to Leo's Coney Island for dinner,


Tuesday July12 2016 Social Hour

Wednesday July 13 2016

Social Hour




First timers Bruce & Linda were adopted by Jim & Linda

After social hour 12 of us went to a Mexican Restaurant for dinner.



Thursday July 14
We toured the Yankee Air Museum today








At 4:00 social hour we had 2 more adoptions

Mike & Sue were adopted by Bernie & Carole 

Dorothy was adopted by Leslie

Friday July 15 2016
We visited the Jiffy Factory in Chelsea Michigan

 We were not allowed to take pictures inside the factory


After to tour we went to lunch at the Chelsea Drill, guess what I had for lunch!

 Back at social hour Jay was adopted by the "Boat Babes"

Saturday July 16 2016
Breakfast





 Business Meeting



 This afternoon some of our members visited the Michigan Firehouse Museum

The following pictures were taken over the last 4 days of the rally by member Bruce Fay, we thank him very much for the permission to post them here on the blog.