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Many of our members may not realize this but our Chapter has only one time per year that it has a chance to raise funds to operate for the coming year. The funds we raise are separate from our charities that we garner funds for at each meeting and call to the wing nut holder. The funds we raise at our rally, The Harvest Run, as we call it now gives us the ability to pay for the web site, software, tickets, officers costs at going to required region and district functions. In addition to that, the funds we raise paid for the photo frames at the shoot this spring, and will be paying for the equipment and media used by the chapter educator. Most groups that meet at a monthly gathering usually have some form of dues. As a chapter we do not have dues. Any dues you pay each year go to GWRRA national for your yearly membership, Wing World magazine and tow buster. HARVEST RUN IS GREAT FUN Special points of interest: October Calendar……. Meeting Locations Motorcycle Safety Guest Article Messages from your officers IN THIS ISSUE HARVEST RUN RALLY 1 WING NUT 1 PHOTO COLLAGE 2 ROCCO GOES TO WNG DING 4 & 5 WHAT IS A WING NUT AWARD? Each month when we are at the end of our monthly meeting there is a ritual that provides for the awarding of an ominous prize. A necklace bearing a wing nut is this gift or endowment. So what is the Wing Nut Award and why do you want it? The wing nut award is given Gold Wing Road Riders Association Chapter CA-C Sacramento OCTOBER 2011 Volume 7, Issue 10 This years Harvest Run is brought to you by Scot Smith and Mary Kimbell-Smith and all of you! Bear facts As a member of GWRRA you belong to all of the chapters of GWRRA. Many of, our membership consider themselves as belonging to more than one chapter. All we ask of you is a once a year commitment to the chapter you consider your home chapter and that you volunteer at this years event and that you register for the event. Even if you are not planning on attending your registration fee will help the chapter continue to thrive and grow and offer more and more member services. If you would like to help determine how those funds be spent and have ideas that would excite, teach, enhance or other wise make chapter life that much better, you can join us at the planning meetings held on the second Monday of each month at the Denny’s at Howe and College of Highway 50 near Sac State. These meetings are for planning everything from the Harvest Run to where we eat dessert or what our long term ride plans are and when they should happen. Be more of a part of CA-C and join us in all aspects of Chapter operations. through a nomination process that includes coercion, bribery, lies, deceit, mumbling, eye avoidance, twitching…….well you understand….anything short of waterboarding. When you are nominated for the wing nut the nominator gives a dollar to the moderator in order to have his or her place on the floor recognized. That being done the nominator proceeds to concoct a somewhat modified story based on some truth or rumor that placed the nominee in a less than cherished position in the room. This procedure is carried on through several nominees until one is awarded the Wing Nut for NOTED WING NUT NOTED WING NUT NOTED WING NUT DODGER DODGER DODGER having someone else tell tales on you. Others in the audience are encourage to pile on for the additional sum of a dollar. After all the nominations or finished a fair and balanced vote (arbitrary at best) determines the intimate winner of the Nut. Now that the winner has the nut he or she must carry it 24hrs a day for the month and be subject to calls from the members for proof of said nut on the winners person. If the nut is there then the caller must pay a dollar. If the callee does not have the nut his or her wallet will loose a dollar. Regardless of who puts money in it all goes to charity. Believe it or not this amounts to around a thousand dollars a year just from this. So….being a wing nut recipient may not be such a bad thing after all.

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Page 1: OCTOBER 2011 NEWSLETTER FINAL

Many of our members may not realize this but

our Chapter has only one time per year that it

has a chance to raise funds to operate for the

coming year. The funds we raise are separate

from our charities that we garner funds for at

each meeting and call to the wing nut holder.

The funds we raise at our rally, The Harvest

Run, as we call it now gives us the ability to

pay for the web site, software, tickets, officers

costs at going to required region and district

functions. In addition to that, the funds we

raise paid for the photo frames at the shoot

this spring, and will be paying for the

equipment and media used by the chapter

educator. Most groups that meet at a monthly

gathering usually have some form of dues. As

a chapter we do not have dues. Any dues you

pay each year go to GWRRA national for your

yearly membership, Wing World magazine

and tow buster.

HARVEST RU N IS GREAT FU N

Special points of

interest:

October

Calendar…….

Meeting Locations

Motorcycle Safety

Guest Article

Messages from

your officers

IN THIS ISSUE

HARVEST

RUN

RALLY

1

WING

NUT

1

PHOTO

COLLAGE

2

ROCCO

GOES TO

WNG DING

4

&

5

WHAT IS A WING NUT AWARD?

Each month when we are at the

end of our monthly meeting there

is a ritual that provides for the

awarding of an ominous prize. A

necklace bearing a wing nut is this

gift or endowment. So what is the

Wing Nut Award and why do you

want it?

The wing nut award is given

Gold Wing Road Riders Association

Chapter CA-C Sacramento

OCTOBER 2011 Volume 7, Issue 10

This years Harvest Run is brought to you by Scot

Smith and Mary Kimbell-Smith and all of you!

Bear facts

As a member of GWRRA you belong to all of

the chapters of GWRRA. Many of, our

membership consider themselves as belonging

to more than one chapter. All we ask of you is

a once a year commitment to the chapter you

consider your home chapter and that you

volunteer at this years event and that you

register for the event. Even if you are not

planning on attending your registration fee will

help the chapter continue to thrive and grow

and offer more and more member services. If

you would like to help determine how those

funds be spent and have ideas that would

excite, teach, enhance or other wise make

chapter life that much better, you can join us

at the planning meetings held on the second

Monday of each month at the Denny’s at

Howe and College of Highway 50 near Sac

State. These meetings are for planning

everything from the Harvest Run to where we

eat dessert or what our long term ride plans

are and when they should happen. Be more of

a part of CA-C and join us in all aspects of

Chapter operations.

through a nomination process

that includes coercion, bribery,

lies, deceit, mumbling, eye

avoidance, twitching…….well you

understand….anything short of

waterboarding. When you are

nominated for the wing nut the

nominator gives a dollar to the

moderator in order to have his

or her place on the floor

recognized. That being done the

nominator proceeds to concoct a

somewhat modified story based

on some truth or rumor that

placed the nominee in a less than

cherished position in the room.

This procedure is carried on

through several nominees until

one is awarded the Wing Nut for

NOTED WING NUTNOTED WING NUTNOTED WING NUT

DODGERDODGERDODGER

having someone else tell tales on you.

Others in the audience are encourage to

pile on for the additional sum of a dollar.

After all the nominations or finished a fair

and balanced vote (arbitrary at best)

determines the intimate winner of the

Nut. Now that the winner has the nut he

or she must carry it 24hrs a day for the

month and be subject to calls from the

members for proof of said nut on the

winners person. If the nut is there then

the caller must pay a dollar. If the callee

does not have the nut his or her wallet

will loose a dollar. Regardless of who puts

money in it all goes to charity. Believe it

or not this amounts to around a thousand

dollars a year just from this. So….being a

wing nut recipient may not be such a bad

thing after all.

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Pre-registration fee paid by September16th, 2011 On site Registration Fee GWRRA Member_____ X $15.00 = $__________ GWRRA Member______ X $18.00 = $________

Must have GWRRA Number to recieve GWRRA Price) Non–member ______ X $18.00 = $__________ Non-member ________ X $22.00 = $________ Raffle Tix $1.00 ea____ 6 for $5____ 13 for $10____ 30 for $20____ Total Tickets = $__________

Grand Prize Tix $1.00 ea (will be $2.00 each at event) Total Tickets = $__________

50/25/25 Tix $1.00 ea___ 10 for $5___ 25 for $10____ 60 for $20____ Total Tickets = $__________ (must be present to win Grand Prizes and 50/25/25)

Please Make Checks Payable to GWRRA Chapter CA-C Total Enclosed = $_________ (mail to Barbara Jeffries, , 9957 Wyatt Ranch Way, Sacramento, CA 95829)

Vehicle Type - Car Motorcycle

Rider (Driver) Name ______________________________________ GWRRA #_________________

Co-Rider (Passenger) Name _________________________________ GWRRA # _________________ Address__________________________________________ City, State, Zip_____________________

Chapter / Club _______________ Phone (_____)_____________ email____________________________ The undersigned agree to comply with the ideals governing this event and to hold harmless the GWRRA, co-sponsoring organizations and busi-nesses, and any property owners) for any loss or injury to self or property in which the entrant may become involved by reason of participation in this event. Each entrant also agrees to assume responsibility for any property which they knowingly damage. Rider(Driver) Signature_____________________________________________ Date_________________ Co-Rider(Passenger) Signature_______________________________________ Date_________________

Saturday Oct 1, 2011

Mather Regional Park

Eagles Nest Road, Mather CA 95656

Registration 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Games 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Lunch Starts at 12 Noon

Silent Auction and More!

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Well hi there. If you are receiving this email it is

because I thought you might enjoy updates of my

18 day motorcycle road trip cross country. The

main objective of this trip is to attend Wing Ding

33, a Honda Goldwing Convention in Knoxville

Tennessee.

If you do not wish to receive these updates, just let

me know and I will remove your sorry ass from my

list and never talk to you again.

On Friday, July 1, 2011, Bill Fox and I took off for

Knoxville, Tennessee. I was up at 3:30 and finished

packing the bike. I headed out at 5:30 to meet Bill

at 6:30 on the road to Reno. When I left home it

was 65 degrees, crossing the Sierra's it was 45 and

when we arrived in Las Vegas it was 108. Nothing

too exciting the first day happened so there won't

be much to tell. All went smooth as we went

through Reno to get to Hwy 95. I did notice that

the pressure in my front tire, according to my tire

pressure monitoring system, was running quite

high, around 59 psi. This caused me some concern

so we pulled over and checked the tire manually

and it was fine. I am assuming the batteries need to

be changed, but we haven't found anyone yet who

carries the right size. When we got to Las Vegas,

Bill continued on to Henderson to visit family,

while I just found a place to crash. Mileage for the

day - 626, 4 hours sleep.

On Saturday, July 2, I meet up with Bill at 6:30 for

our trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The plan

was to marvel at the Hoover Dam, gawk at the

Grand Canyon, be swept away by the Meteor

Crater and arrive in Albuquerque, where I would

meet up with an old friend for dinner. Here is what

actually happened. We left Henderson for our first

stop, the Hoover Dam. The GPS said it was only a

few miles away and as we rode along we could see

the helicopters sitting off to the side of the road to

give tours of the Dam. We passed over this small

bridge and I joked to Bill that this was the new

bridge across the dam. Evidently I wasn't joking. I

could see Lake Mead, but that was it. I was told

that the new bridge was really something to see.

Well I guess you needed to turn off somewhere to

get a good view of it. We didn't see anything so we

just continued on. So much for the marvel part. As

we were riding we figured out that if we went to

the Grand Canyon, it would eat up several hours

of time and put us into Albuquerque way to late.

So instead, we went through the town of Williams,

the entrance to the Grand Canyon, and rode

around and got gas. Turns out this is part of route

66, so we got some nice pictures. Not a total loss.

So much for gawking. Next stop, Meteor Crater.

This part of the trip went as planned. The crater is

just a few miles off Hwy 40 and is well worth the

trip. They have several places to view the crater

from, pieces of the meteor that created the crater

and of course, a gift shop. I was swept away, 1 for

3 so far. By the time we arrived in Albuquerque it

was 7:30. I called my friend, got freshened up and

headed a few miles down the road to the Casino

he hangs out. We had a very nice reunion and

since he paid for dinner, a fantastic meal. As we

were saying our goodbyes I was mysteriously

drawn to the blackjack table. I played 2 hands, won

60 bucks, collected my money and left. 2 for 4 for

the day. Mileage for the day - 600, 4 hours sleep.

On Sunday, July 3, we headed out for Oklahoma

City. After the complimentary breakfast we were

on the road at 6:30. The day was long and hot as

we traveled through New Mexico, Texas and finally

Oklahoma. Thank goodness for the cool vest as

temperatures were above 100. As we made our

last stop of the day for gas in Oklahoma another

Goldwing pulled up behind me at the gas pump.

This was only the second Goldwinger we met on

our travels so far and it turned out I knew him

from past rides in Sacramento. He rode a 2002

Wing and he showed us his odometer. Bill said

"wow, only 32,000 miles". I said "look again Bill, it

says 320,000". He was on his way to Wing Ding

also and was meeting up with a friend to ride the

rest of the way with. When we arrived in Oklaho-

ma City we made it a point to go to the site of the

Oklahoma City bombing. I can't believe it hap-

pened over 15 years ago. The site is now a memo-

rial with a Reflection Pool, empty chairs represent-

ing all those killed and other items to memorialize

this tragic event. When we got to our motel, we

were informed that there was a pool party going

on and that it wouldn't be over until 10. So much

for and early nights sleep. Mileage for the day -

575, sleep to be determined.

PS Just as I finished the last line, Bill went out to

cover his bike. Seconds later he comes running in

yelling that it is pouring out. We just finished cov-

ering the bikes, what a great old fashion thunder

storm.

Last we spoke, Bill and I were just getting ready for

a good nights sleep in Oklahoma City. Because of

the rain, pool party and talking about our trip, we

didn't get to sleep until midnight. We were up at

5:30 so that means we had a great nights rest.

Once we packed and had breakfast, which didn't

start until 7, we were ready to go. Unfortunately,

we were heading in opposite directions. Bill was

heading to Texas to visit with a friend and I was

heading to Joplin, Missouri, to see the remnants of

the tornado that leveled the area. As soon as we

pulled out of the parking lot, Bill headed south and

I headed north. It took me about 3 hours to get

there and let me tell you, the site of what hap-

pened there added a whole new meaning to the

expression, it looks like a tornado hit your room. I

kind of knew what to expect because my friends

Tom and Ken had just visited there a few weeks

ago and told me all about it. Well let me tell you,

there is no way to imagine what you were going to

see there. As I got onto the main road into town

things looked normal. I gassed up and proceeded

into the heart of the town. About a half mile down

the road you start to see some buildings with roof

damage and piles of debris in front of other homes.

A few blocks later all that changed. All the green

from the trees was gone and all that you could see

were tree trunks, foundations, piles of rubble and

trash removal crews. There was the occasional

house standing, but they were very few and far

between. I rode down several streets, stopping to

take some pictures. Then I came to a street that

was a little higher than the others and offered a

view of most of the path the tornado took. I

parked on the corner and began snapping away. I

noticed a man cleaning up around one of the hous-

es so I went over and talked to him. Seems he

owned 3 houses on one block. He was telling me

that what I was looking at now was nothing com-

pared to what it looked like right after it happened.

Hard to imagine it could be that bad. I then rode

around and got to the Joplin High School. The

middle of it looked like a bomb went off inside. I

then went to see how far the path was. I rode for

several miles before I just gave up and turned

around. All I could see was total destruction eve-

ROCCO AND BILL FOX TRAVEL TO WIND DING AND THE MIDWEST IN ROCCO’S WORDS

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rywhere I looked. As I rode out of town I

stopped to get something to eat. I was talking to

the girl there and she explained to me that there

was a big HS ceremony going on at the local

college and most of the people from Joplin were

away. That's why there we only 158 deaths. Hard

to believe that the death toll was so low after

what I saw there.

I then left Joplin and headed for Little Rock, Ar-

kansas. Took about 3 hours to get here and I beat

Bill by about 2 hours. I got in a swim, a shower

and a good meal. Seems the steak house next

door has "Bald Mondays". I got a nice size sirloin,

baked potato, salad bar, Texas toast and an ice

tea, all for $6.50, normally $12.

Well time to wrap this up. I will try to attach a

photo or 2. Heading for Tennessee in the morn-

ing. Wing Ding, here we come. Mileage for the

day - 525.

Knoxville, here we come. We left Little Rock,

Arkansas at about 7:30 am. Nothing really

planned along the way. We were passing through

Memphis and Nashville, but we just wanted to get

to Knoxville, unpack and relax. So we took our

time, stopped a few times at some very nice rest

stops and pulled into Knoxville at around 5:30.

We are now on eastern time, 3 hours ahead of

you guys in California. The scenery has gone from

mountainous and rocky, to lush, flat and very

green. The weather is now hot and muggy, now I

remember why I moved to California. It poured

on us in Tennessee for about 3 minutes and then

got hotter and muggier. Other than that, all went

as planned. When we pulled into the parking lot

of our motel, there were already several Gold-

wings there. We unloaded, found a place to lock

up the trailers and did what any good winger

would do, we cleaned our bikes. It looks like the

cleaning part is going to become a very regular

part of our routine as it rains quite a bit here.

Not long, steady rains, but short hard thunder

storms. You know what I'm talking about east

coasters. Been here 1 day and I have seen 3 good

thunder storms, I love it. Well I didn't take any

pictures today so no long downloads. I will let

you know how the show was later tonight, after

the light parade. Wish me luck. I already have a

better chance than I did last year as my main

competition, Tom Jefferies, isn't at Wing Ding this

year. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I would

rather have Tom and Barbara here and lose to

them than not have them here and win some-

thing. Well enough for now. Thanks to those who

have responded to my posts, it makes writing

them worth while. Not that I'm not having a

fantastic time, but I do miss my family and friends.

Also miss riding with my PGR buddies and honor-

ing our HERO'S. Have a great day and I will type

to you late

Just Plain Rocco

WING DING CONTINUED

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CACACA---CCC

We had a nice group meet at Cassidy's in Elk Grove for breakfast a 7:30 am before heading off for Mammoth Lakes for this year's District Con-vention. In addition to us there were Tom and Barbara Jefferies, Bob and Nancy Harris, Scot Smith and Mary Kimbell-Smith, Noland and Mel Mayo, Rocco and Lynn Merz, Bill Palmer, Ken and Dianne Knox, Lee and Peggy Marshall, and Lenny from CA2K.

Congratulations to Rocco for being selected Dis-trict's Individual of the Year (IOY). He was up against some heavy competition this year but came out ahead. CA-C also took third place in this year's District Games (sending registrations in for and visiting other chapters rallies).

In addition to the many seminars and classes that were offered to those attending the District Convention, there were also team events for the chapters to participate in, including Chapter Games on Saturday afternoon and the Amazing Team Challenge on Sunday afternoon. We are proud to say that CA-C participated in both events and they gave their all in the competi-tions.

One last reminder that the Harvest Run is Octo-ber 1st and will once again be held at Mather Field Park. Mary Kimbell-Smith has been work-ing diligently on getting people to fill the various committees. Nancy Redding is collecting the items for the raffle prizes and also the Silent Auction Baskets. A stuffing party has been tenta-tively schedule for Thursday, September 22nd at Tom and Barbara Jefferies' home. Time and con-firmation of date will be announced, so watch your emails for more information. The new chapter games were announced at Dis-

trict. The upcoming year will be the year to Shoot the Mascots. That's take a picture of the CA-C chapter mascot with the mascot of other mascots while visiting various chapter meetings and events. The chapter with the most points by Au-gust 1st wins $100. The second place chapter will have their chapter charter fees paid for by Dis-trict and the third place chapter will be awarded $25. So, if you plan to visit another chapter or any of their events let us know and we will get you C-Bear who will enjoy the ride and visit. In October we plan to be visiting or attending the following places/events. We will be starting out the month with our own Harvest Run. Everyone please come out and support your chapter. This is the only fundraiser CA-C has each year and we sure would appreciate your support. In addi-tion watch for dinner rides to Wimpy's in Walnut Grove, East Side Chef in West Sacramento, Wiener Works in Sacramento, Pita Pita in Fol-som and J R Texas BBQ in Roseville. There is also an overnight ride scheduled for the latter part of October to take in several lighthouses. Please refer to the CA-C website calendar for addition information on the various events. We hope to see many of you there. Till next month, ride safe and ride often. From up the river, Rick and

Marilyn

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Those of you who attended the plan-ning meeting on September 12 heard some stories of how wonderful it was at District in Mammoth Lakes over Labor Day. All those stories were true. We experienced beautiful rides, wonderful weather and great camarade-rie between 402 attendees from all the Cali-fornia chapters. In thinking about this column, I thought about recording some of the fun things that happened in Mammoth, but another thought kept creeping in. One of the things I experi-enced keeps tugging at me. Several of us at-tended the COY/IOY competition interviews. Our own “JP” Rocco was selected as the Dis-trict IOY based, in part, on his answers to the interview questions. It is one of the interview questions that I’d like to focus on for this col-umn. The question that was asked of all COY/IOY competitors was: “In the future, what improvements would you like to see made in GWRRA?” The question can be an-swered on several levels – and most of the competitors made some excellent sugges-tions. One suggested a larger leadership role for women. Another suggested bringing Wing Ding further West every few years. A third suggested “more fun” (not quite sure what that meant – I guess we all get to determine what that looks like for ourselves). I’d like to ask you – our members – the same question. What improvements would you like to see made in GWRRA? Do you have any ideas for the folks at the Regional level? At the District level? How about the Chapter level? If you were suddenly appoint-ed King (or Queen) of GWRRA – what would you improve? How would you get in-volved? The key to GWRRA success is mem-ber involvement. For some people that means attending rides and functions. For others it means volunteering to assist in putting on rides or events. For still others it means vol-unteering in a leadership capacity. These ideas hold true at all levels of GWRRA. If you have ideas or suggestions for

changes/improvements at the chapter level, call any member of the leadership team. All the names and numbers are in the newsletter each month and can be found on the Chapter website. If you think you have a better way of doing something, let an officer know. Be pre-pared to step up and take part in the better way you suggest. The Chapters, Districts and Regions draw their strength from the mem-bers and exist to serve the members. In or-der to stay strong and meet the needs of the members it takes MEMBER INVOLVEMENT! My Grammy used to say “Many hands make light work.” So step up, get involved and bring your ideas forward. You may have just the idea that is needed to make GWRRA better! Incidentally – my answer to the ques-tion would be to set the games to include a component of relative distances to earning points. That would help equal things out for chapters in the East and West. Let’s say the chapter gets a point to attending their own District Convention and two points if attend-ing another District’s District Convention. I say the number of points should be deter-mined by the distance from the chapter loca-tion to the other District’s District Conven-tion. If a chapter is 100 miles from the other District’s District Convention it would be a point – if a chapter has to travel 500 miles it should be three points – and if a chapter has to travel 1000 miles it should be 5 points. Same thing should apply to Wing Ding. The farther a chapter has to travel to attend, the more points (or credits) they should be awarded for doing so.

What are YOUR ideas??????????

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As you know, I’m a very large operate of parking lot practice. I recently read an article by Robert Vaughan that really mimic my believes. In our chapter our skills are good. We ride every week. Many of us have taken the Experience Rider Course. Turning around in the street. Watching or observing the 12 – 15 second ahead rule, that you can’t remember the last time you had to do an emergency braking or swerving maneuver. Perhaps your riding is that you are so good at avoiding using emergency maneuver that you’re out of practice. When riding only to meetings or once or twice, maybe three times a week you don’t get to practice some of your skills on the street. That doesn’t mean you should let your skills deteriorate until the next time you take a rider course. That’s why we have parking lot practice so you can keep all your skills sharp, not just the ones you use every day. The same skills which degrade in a few months can be returned in a few minutes of practice.

Quick stops are easy to practice on a good parking lot with a good surface. Bring your speed up to 15 – 20 mph, looking at a distant object straight ahead, and squeezing the front brake while you press on the rear brake. You can measure your pro-gress after several tries. Swerving around an objects can be hard at first but after a few try’s you will be able to do this without braking or downshifting while swerving at 15 mph. Once you bring your parking lot skills up to par, in an emergen-

cy, it will become old news. Swerving and stopping as part of

two skills together and to practice quick stops on a curve you‘re

ready to go out and face the world again but better prepared

than when you rode into the PLP.

This is a little story about our trip to Shawnee Oklahoma in order to pick up our New Goldwing. We combined a cou-ple of extra stops and visits during our little odyssey. Bill and Rocco came over the day before we left to help me get the Trailer picked up from Bob’s Shop and load up the 06 to take it to Oklahoma. We left Sacramento on Wednesday the 7th about 7:30. As per our usual routine we stopped in Turlock for breakfast at Perko’s. The first part of the Drive was in heavy traffic as we caught a lot of the work commute folks. The temp started to climb; at least we had air in the Truck Cab. We decided to stop at Carrow’s in Bak-ersfield for lunch, and then back on the 99 headed south again. We got to Pasa-dena during rush hour and that cost us some time, when we looked at the temp it was up to 106 degrees. We continued on over to interstate 10 and out through Palm Springs. When we stopped for gas in Indio it was 113 degrees. We made it to Goodyear Arizona just west of Phoe-nix for our first stop. Day 2 saw us headed out once again in commute traffic through Phoenix. We took the bypass to avoid a lot of it. The weather was hot all the way through Ari-zona and New Mexico. We made another 700 plus miles Thursday and stayed in Fort Stockton Texas. We at least got a little relief from the hot weather and it

stayed mild as we continued East. We did get into some heavy traffic again as we went through El Paso. We got to Cibilo Texas, our Son’s home, just north of San Antonio about 1 o’clock and loaded up the 1976 Gold Wing and then we took our Daughter in law, Jonnie and our Grandson, Hayden out for lunch and had a good visit with them. After our visit we headed North to get to Shawnee by Fri-day night. We entered the Texas Hill Country and the gas mileage went from 12 to 13 mph down to 10. At least the truck performed well and we finished the day in Shawnee at 11:30 pm, another 700 plus day. The next morning we did some shopping at Wal-Mart and then headed for Shaw-nee Honda to trade the 06 and pick up our new 2012. We had already made the deal over the phone and it all worked out great. They had the bike ready for us and we proceeded to complete the deal. While we were waiting to finalize every-thing our friends, Mark and Mary arrived from Missouri. They had made arrange-ments to get their bike worked on (the twin to our 06) while we visited. We had a great time catching up on what we had been up to since the last time we met them. After getting everything taken care of at the Dealership we got Mark and Mary checked in at the motel and then we all headed over to Cracker Barrel for a great dinner. We then went back to the motel to visit with our friends more.

They filled us in on how things are going at their Ranch and all about the cattle and the weather they have been having. Hot, dry, no rain, water holes drying up. They have heard that some storms may be on the way to give them some relief. We said our good nights and bedded down for the night. The next morning we had breakfast at the motel and then said our good byes to Mark and Mary and headed home. We managed to get into some really bad weather coming out of Albuquerque New Mexico, it poured rain and thunder and some of the most lightning we had ever seen. The pass was supposed to be closed but they must have opened it just before we got to it. We continued over the mountains and made it into Gallup, New Mexico for the night. Next morning we headed west again and drove straight through to California. We took highway 58 out of Barstow and drove up through the Tehachapi’s and down into Bakersfield. We had something to eat again at Carrow’s and decided to just keep going and get home Monday night. We arrived home at 11:30, tired but glad to be home again. We had cov-ered just short of 4,000 miles in 6 days. But now we have our 1976 Classic and our 2012 New Bike in the garage. Tom and Barbara Jefferies

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October 2011 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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HARVEST

RUN

2 RIDE FOR KIDS

FAIRFIELD

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4 WIMPY’S MARINA

THORNTON

L5 6:30 PM

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6 7 8

PIZZA NIGHT

HARVEST DEBREEF

LOOK FOR MORE NEWS

9ALL DAY RIDE

TO COLUMBIA

STATE PARK

L6 9:30 AM

L7 10:00 AM

10 PLANNING

MEET DENNYS ON COLLEGE AT HOWE

5:30 PM

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DINNER RIDE

EAST SIDE CHEF W. SAC

L4 6:30

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16 CHAPTER

MEETING MALO-NEYS GOLF CRSE

7:30 AM BKFST

8:30 MEETING

17 18 WEINER WORKS

MADISON AVE

L3 6:30PM

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OVERNIGHT RIDE

LIGHTHOUSES

L4 10:AM

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24 25 26 27DINNER

RIDE

TO PITA PITA

FOLSOM

L-7 6:30 PM

28 29LUNCH RIDE

TEXAS WEST BBQ

ROSEVILLE

L6 10:00AM

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