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| Gary's ride |
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| John and Suzanne at the TAA in New Mexico |
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| Jim Dierth from Austin, TX |
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| Gary's trike with Marge waiting! |
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| American Legion Post 13 |
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| American Legion Post 13 |
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| Gathering for our escort into Albuquerque |
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The next day we were treated to an old fashioned barbecue hosted by the Paul Elam family in Tucumcari, NM
We rode on to Amarillo, Texas...for dinner at the Big Texan. Tim (from the OK City, OK area) joined us for our ride to OK.
The following day we rode to Tulsa, OK - on the way we stopped at a car museum and we were escorted by the Southern Cruisers Motorcycle Club to the Seaba Motorcycle Museum before continuing on to Tulsa. There was a low pressure system traveling through the area that almost blew us off the rode. Mike (riding behind me) actually saw the wind lift a wheel on my trailer. I didn't think we were ever going to get to the motel!
Because we were really beat up by the wind we missed the festivities in Tulsa.
On to Illinois! We were me by the
Illinois riders at the Jefferson Barracks Bridge on the Illinois side
then ride into Troy, IL, Hosted by VFW Post
976, Troy, IL.
From Troy we rode to Cambridge, Ohio. We were privileged to participate in the Cambridge Welcome Home of their wounded Marine, Nathan Jakubisin. (Too bad I didn't have a camera mounted on my helmet because the procession was truly great!)
On September 10th we had reservations for the NYC 9/11 Memorial. What started out as reservations at 5 p.m. were changed (by the memorial staff) to 3 p.m. For us, that meant we needed to ride 550 miles and get to New Jersey by 1:30 p.m. Five of us agreed to leave Cambridge at 5 p.m. so that we would have time for lunch along the way.
We departed as planned - dark and dangerous because of the high number of deer in Pennsylvania. We only got as far as mile marker 161 before we were detoured OFF the PA turnpike. The detour added another 40 miles to the ride AND we lost quite a bit of time. We rolled into our motel in Jersey City at 2:15 p.m. - I was proud of us! We parked, changed into walking shoes, and got a taxi (thanks John, we owe you!) to the memorial. Even though we were 30 minutes late, they let us in. We had an hour to tour the memorial.
Plenty of time. Some how it isn't particularly impressive. I know I'll hear crap for that, but it is a fact. Frankly, the rebuildig
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