Left the Vacation Lodge at 6:00am, made it to Detroit at 10:05pm, took the scenic route.
Left the Vacation Lodge at 6:00am, made it to Detroit at 10:05pm, took the scenic route.
Thanks to everyone for a great rally.
Made it home by 5:00pm to a cool 90 degrees.
You've got to love the south.
made it home around 15:30
A nice ride up I75 at 80-90mph
Got home and ditched the helmet...
Thanks Steve for a great rally!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
2013 F6B Black
Buell Lightning S1
DR400sm
Qlink Sumo
Rode 1317 kilometers in a single day. That's over 800 miles in American. A personal record.
Had a great time and met a lot of great people, whom I look forward to meeting again next year.
Colorado??? Isn't that near Hawaii? (If it must be.) Special thanks to 53 Driver Steve for making it all
possible and his special concern for the novice riders among us.
I'm not sure if this is the proper thread to share this with you all, but I find it most inspiring every
time I read it. It was originally played as a PBS ad segment with the Dances With Wolves Theme
song playing in the back ground. Circa 1995. You can sometimes find it on utube. No title, no author.
I wish I knew whom to give credit for this masterpiece. You'd have to have a heart
of stone not to be moved by these words.
I think an appropriate title could be, Ode to America.
Welcome to a place, that is always just beginning,
that rouses itself from day to day and year to year,
to admire what it's made, starting with nothing,
then rushes to invent itself, all over again.
Ordinary people, doing extraordinary things.
Knowing what goes on, goes on to shape tomorrow.
Welcome to land, that is never what you think it is
and will never stay that way for long.
There are a million stories; in the streets of the cities
we never finish building and in the rows of the fields
we never finish cultivating.
We intend to tell them all.
I love to give credit where where credit is due. If anyone could educate me as to the author of these
words I would greatly appreciate it. For all we know, it could be a staff writer at some PBS station.
Yea, yea, that's right, I'm Canadian! What's your point!
Thanks to us, this rally is truly an international event.
What do you think of that,... EH!
Everyone, please ride safe.
Cheers to all!
09 Red Vulcan 500 (sold)
11 Black Vulcan 900 (sold)
13 Black F6b (they'll never be another)
Home safe. What to say that hasn't been said, Steve and Rick thanks for what you guys do, to the members, nice seeing old friends and nice meeting new ones. I for one looks forward to this trip each year, see who did what to their ride, and to swap stories and jokes. If we had a trophy for the best story CHUNKY LOVE would have had more to pack.
Thanks to all
Home on Monday around 5. Would have made it 15 minutes sooner but I forgot Missouri had a helmet law. Took it off in Hannibal, 90 degrees and got caught 6 miles from Iowa. Shoot!