Saturday, August 26, 2006
August 26th New Life Riders Chapter Ride
Well Folks,
Chrome, steel, leather, and a beautiful day. It doesn't get much better than this.
Today was a good day to ride. We had fifteen people, some of which were vistors, thirteen motorcycles and one truck (which my beautiful bride drove as a chase vehicle).
I'm giving the pre-ride briefing to those that showed up. We actually had more visitors than we had chapter members on this run. For our members who didn't show up , boy did you miss a good one! One hundred and seventy-five miles from my door to my door and it was all fun. Then the fellowship with everyone there - WOW!
Here's the crew we took off with from our meeting place at the 'Y' at Oak Hill. A finer bunch of people to ride with today would be impossible to find. We left the 'Y' at Oak Hill and took the back roads to Blanco, TX - BEAUTIFUL.
At Blanco we stopped for brunch (well to be truthfull we stopped at Riley's BBQ first but they didn't open till 11 a.m. and we were there at 9:50 a.m.) so we went catty-corner across the square to the Sunset Resturant. The folks there were great - got our group all together and Talk about the food. If you leave there hungry - you didn't order anything! Ask Paula and I about the "Challenge" of eating just three of their pancakes.
After the meal, our group split up - some people had less time to play than others. And eight of us (seven bikes and one truck) went to Heritage Days at Vett Park just south of Blanco. Civil war reinactments, cannon firing, muskets firing, people falling down, ladies in hoop skirts, blacksmith, chuckwagons (at least nine) plus a lot of other tings to see, purchase, check out etc. We left before the rodeo and bands started. But it seems Blanco's Heritage days are worth checking out. I sure had fun.
I'll upload the pictures of the Cannon Firing once I get them from the young photographer who took the pictures after our President, Tom Zimmer left us to go home and spend some time with his wife who recently returned from California after spending time with the kids (more likely grandkids). ¶ 6:16 PM
Well Folks,
Chrome, steel, leather, and a beautiful day. It doesn't get much better than this.
Today was a good day to ride. We had fifteen people, some of which were vistors, thirteen motorcycles and one truck (which my beautiful bride drove as a chase vehicle).
I'm giving the pre-ride briefing to those that showed up. We actually had more visitors than we had chapter members on this run. For our members who didn't show up , boy did you miss a good one! One hundred and seventy-five miles from my door to my door and it was all fun. Then the fellowship with everyone there - WOW!
Here's the crew we took off with from our meeting place at the 'Y' at Oak Hill. A finer bunch of people to ride with today would be impossible to find. We left the 'Y' at Oak Hill and took the back roads to Blanco, TX - BEAUTIFUL.
At Blanco we stopped for brunch (well to be truthfull we stopped at Riley's BBQ first but they didn't open till 11 a.m. and we were there at 9:50 a.m.) so we went catty-corner across the square to the Sunset Resturant. The folks there were great - got our group all together and Talk about the food. If you leave there hungry - you didn't order anything! Ask Paula and I about the "Challenge" of eating just three of their pancakes.
After the meal, our group split up - some people had less time to play than others. And eight of us (seven bikes and one truck) went to Heritage Days at Vett Park just south of Blanco. Civil war reinactments, cannon firing, muskets firing, people falling down, ladies in hoop skirts, blacksmith, chuckwagons (at least nine) plus a lot of other tings to see, purchase, check out etc. We left before the rodeo and bands started. But it seems Blanco's Heritage days are worth checking out. I sure had fun.
I'll upload the pictures of the Cannon Firing once I get them from the young photographer who took the pictures after our President, Tom Zimmer left us to go home and spend some time with his wife who recently returned from California after spending time with the kids (more likely grandkids). ¶ 6:16 PM
