Some of you may be familiar with GCF, Gay Camping Friends (not really a nudist or men-only group), and the likes of GNI & IMEN, as well as some other groups like CMEN, which hosts gatherings across the US at different facilities of theirs, but what if there was a group that is currently in Orange County, the greater Long Beach area and in San Diego County in Southern California that was looking to expand into various areas with out an "un-landed" (no one club location that the group owns) group already there, initially in SoCal, but eventually into other locations as well, outside of California?
Would you support such a group?
If this sounds interesting to you, please complete our short survey with some suggestions of the name of the group and internet domain, and we'll take it from there:The idea is simple: Clubs joined under the "umbrella" name would share membership, not unlike CMEN, so if you were in one area, visiting a local club or attending a gathering event that was not in the area of the club you joined, your membership would be valid there as well.
(Someone recently mentioned to me that there was no club in their area, "The Inland Empire" of SoCal, and it got me thinking.)
Assuming the idea is welcome, we'd be announcing to areas we're asked about for some guys to host events at their homes, and we'd coordinate the events and membership for the area, while looking for someone (or more than one guy) to take on coordinating things in their local area in order for the local "branches" to work.
(If we don't get guys to help, then expansion will go slowly, with myself having to manage it all remotely.)
And yes, once we have sufficient membership to allow for our own camp/resort-type places, that will happen as well, but I don't see this happening anytime soon, unless we find someone (or ones) that will donate generously.
More news to come, once I see the feedback on the poll above.
---John