Rochester‘s first social distance drive a HUGE success!

We were all a little concerned about the possibility of a rain out, but mother nature was in our corner and what a great day at was! The Eastview Mall supercharger was our starting point and as members pulled in, they were greeted by my drone up in the air. Still a bit of a newbie pilot if I’m being honest, but aerial views of Teslas are extremely cool. A big shout out to Anthony who made the trip from Buffalo and brought the legendary Frankies donuts that everyone enjoyed before leaving.  Speaking of Buffalo, we had a nice turnout from our Buffalo members that made the roughly one hour drive to Rochester. There was one gentleman who made roughly a three hour drive and that was our club manager, Stephen Pallotta. Can’t say enough about how much that meant to everyone that he took the time to drive out from Albany. Thanks so much Stephen!

At roughly 10:15, 18 Tesla’s, mostly model 3s and some model S’s, snaked their way down the back roads to beautiful Canandaigua New York. The 30 minute drive to the Starbucks parking lot was our end destination. Members took out lawn chairs and continued to eat Frankie’s donuts while some brought their lunch. We lined all 18 Teslas up in a perfect row parallel to Rt. 5 and watched many heads turn as they were driving by. A few folks pulled in smiling as they drove by and even a few more actually stopped and asked us what was going on. An 88-year-old gentleman sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle made all of us smile the most when he pulled in telling us that he had two Teslas and of course we gave him one of our cards so that he can join our club.

At a time when we are all yearning for some face to face contact with humans as well as getting out from our four walls of our houses, our club was able to pull both off yet be respectful of each other‘s boundaries during this unprecedented time. Considering there is no end to this in the near future, Rochester is going to continue to have these fun drives for the next few months. If you can’t change the situation, you have to change your attitude and it was nice to see everybody with smiling faces.

(Click here to view drone footage from the event)

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