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 Summer’s here and it’s hot! The rally’s behind us and it went very well, thanks to everyone pitching in to help. Special thanks go to those who organized and handled the bigger projects (beer garden/bra ts, country store, registration, coffee and donuts, prizes, the movement of goodies to and from Panguitch, shirt and pin design, etc.). You know who you are – and if you don’t, ask me and I’ll tell you. At this point the official paid attendance stands at 290. The good folks of Panguitch were effusive in their praise of “the quiet motorcycle folks” – a Harley rally followed us in to town again this year. So now we rest for a few months and then start thinking about RRR #10 in June of 2009.
Looking ahead, Al has us at the Brighton Store for the July meeting (a great cool setting for bikes and breakfast), then the MOA National Rally in Gillette (most likely not as “cool” literally or figuratively as Brighton, but just east of some great riding), then our traditional August campout at Victor. I’m planning on fitting in a refresher tour of Little Big Horn, Fetterman Massacre, the Wagon Box Fight, the Medicine Wheel on top of the Big Horns and perhaps Bear Tooth once I spend a day checking out the rally. In between trips I’ll stop by home plate and see if the vegetable garden is surviving.
We’re off to Hawaii to do some face to face grand parenting and I’ll finally have a bike to ride. Sean picked up a Speed Triple last week so now I’m trying to fit some of his riding gear and a new Shoei for our granddaughter in to my one allowed bag. In the past Pat has filled my second bag with her “stuff” so she’ll be particularly challenged this time. It will be a moral victory to not have to pay the extra fee for what used to be a “free” bag, but I don’t know if we’ll make it. Next month I’ll report on the preferred way to ride around Oahu (clockwise or counter clockwise) and perhaps on taking the new Super Ferry, and the bike, to Maui.
See you at Brighton!
Bob Mabey
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