Jeep Poker Run 2011: Beating Cancer One Jeep at a Time

Sunday we attended the 5th annual Jeep Poker Run, of course it was only our 3rd year in attendance. The first year we went we ventured up into Dubois County, last year (our 2nd year) we went into Warrick county and this year we went to Perry County. All the money raised goes to the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center in Jasper.

We started out at the Chateau in Mariah Hill and left shortly after noon and headed up State Road 62 to the Fulda Shortcut. We then took State Road 545 through Fulda, New Boston, and into Troy were we made out first stop at the boat dock. We headed out of there onto Troy Ridge Road to State Road 37 and continued to State Road 237 where we turned off on to all the other fun names of Perry County roads. We came out in Cannelton, and headed up to Rocky Point Marina where we made or second stop. From there we headed out onto more fun and confusing named roads and up past Buzzards Roost and into Alton where we made our 3rd stop at the American Legion. From there we headed up past Cape Sandy near Leavenworth were we hit State Road 62 and took that all the way back to the Chateau. We were out for about 5.5 hours.

Once we made it back to the Chateau we drew our final chip and then headed out to mom and dad's for my birthday dinner. So we didn't get to stick around for the prize drawings. But we didn't have much luck with our hands so we didn't figure we needed to stay.

The Jeep count was up near 160. Again growing from the 150ish last year!! We haven't heard the amount of money that was raised yet but I am sure that it was a good amount!

We had a great time and look forward to doing it again next year!