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THESE EVENTS ARE IN PLANNING AND DISCUSSION -- THE CONCRETE HAS NOT SET YET ....  same month can be listed and is fine for different areas of the country.   I am plugging in names as people show interest, this gives us a tool for seeing who is going were plus the folks who are going can start the refinement process on dates and activities.

So far we got the following in the rough order of doing them.   Adding something is easy, talk it up some, put a date to it and we will see if folks are interested by if they sign up for it.


Youzguyz Twisted Sisters trip         Mid to Late April  NEED FIRM DATES      Youzguyz,  Springman,  Lancer

God's Acre / Fayetteville Ride      May 6-8     MM,  Oldfeller
Sunday - Tuesday ride to visit an ancient Indian healing spring located at Healing Springs Road,  Blackville, South Carolina, 29817.    http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/god-s-acre-healing-springs
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g54143-d8591494-Reviews-Barnwel...

Lancer Oklahoma trip   second half of May  NEED FIRM DATES   Lancer,  Kenny G,  MM,  Springman,  Verslagen,

Indian Paintbrush Campground in Ty Denver  June  NEED FIRM DATES   Verslagen,  Springman,  old.indian,  Lamcer

Kickstand Lodge   June 13-18    Dave,  Oldfeller,  MM,  Stewmills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZGNOB5m5Ro&t=166s
http://kickstandlodge.com/rates.html
From here it is a short hop up to the Dragon, and to all the really neat surrounding roads we love to ride.    For East Coast beginners, this is one of the closest (and the BEST) Southeastern trip possible.   Some have argued the area is the BEST BIKING IN AMERICA and I might have to agree with them.  

MM's farm   July to  first week in August  NEED FIRM DATES   MM,  Oldfeller,  Dave,  Lancer

Arkansas Run   NEED FIRM DATES  Springman,   old.indian


And here is a tool to use in locating some no cost camping when travelling to get to the rides:

https://freecampsites.net

OldFeller

Don't forget at least one Dinning experence at : the Bread Basket !  

$7.95 and good home cooking too !  

https://www.yelp.com/biz/millers-bread-basket-blackville

you know of a place a feller might pitch a tent in your area the night before we go to the Spring ?   about the last of April or first part of May ..  

You know every day is Saturday to me ...   ... I'm OK with :  

Sunday ridding to your place
Monday going to Blackville
Tuesday ridding to your place
Wednesday ridding home .

If that works good for everybody else.   Also good with anybody who is comming from West,South or North making my place their Saturday stop-over .  I should be back by Dark-thirty-ish (maybe before?).  

 

So if its just me , then I have to stay at :    the Chez moi 

but ...

If anybody else shows then we can camp in the back yard ???



I'm OK with either !  

May 6th I've got booked already .  That's a Saturday.  but

May 7th is OK with me ... if it works for everybody else  and the weather cooperates ?

I was just looking :   Its only 400 miles from my house to yours , and its only 200 miles from yours to Blackville .   Easy days !  

Fayetteville, NC has history, some of it not very appealing, but a long history in any case.

It was the highest navigable point in the Cape Fear River system, and as such the riverboats and barges all got offloaded at Fayetteville and then went by road all over the rest of the Deep South.  

Wilmington down at the mouth of the river and Fayetteville up at the top of the river were serious regional commercial hubs back in the day.

Fayetteville really was the main slave hub for the south, and we have the Market House still standing in the dead center of town.   I was an adult when they took down the slave chain & rings off the center columns because it was way too Politically Incorrect and the chains & rings 'simply had to be removed' in the 90's despite the various historical societies having kittens over the historical desecration of it all.   It was always called the Slave Market previously as they auctioned the naked slaves there like cattle, then when they removed the chain & rings it became "the Market House" making out like farmers had just brought their garden crops there to sell on Saturday mornings.  

Revisionist history at its finest.

Next item of some historical worth is the 87th Airborne Paratrooper Museum downtown -- Fort Bragg has always been home to America's paratroopers and the full graphical history of drop troops from day one to the last series of police actions was on display there.   PC has struck there as well, most of the heavy machine guns, drop artillery, mortars, flame throwers and such have been removed in the last 10 years.

Fayetteville WAS a major manufacturing hub of some considerable size, and we could take an outside the fence tour of closed major facilities such as Black and Decker, Monsanto, Cutler Hammer, Morganite, Purolater, Kelly Springfield (Goodyear) and the like.  Depressing as hell with new grass sprouting up through the cracked pavement--- and I wouldn't really want to lead such a jaunt as it cuts way too too close to home for me.    I worked at those places for over 30 years but only Goodyear and just part of Purolater remains open as of today.

Fayetteville and Spring Lake have some gun stores of some size, worth checking out if you are into that sort of stuff.

Food --- I have 20 pounds of Chicken Leg Quarters in the freezer and a smoker grill.                  Sorry, no fresh caught 18 pound catfish.

Weather permitting, I am good to go on the date of your choosing for the Lancer trip.

Kenny G

In truth, Youzguyz, the old date for the old run was cribbed from your last year's listing.  

There is nothing to say your group cannot change the date to something that suits the group better.   Things will come up and dates will change on all of these events -- this is why the events listing keeps getting changed and copied down to each page as it fills up.

It moves and breathes -- it is alive .....

I'd love to take 3 or 4 of these trips but it ain't gonna happen because the Mrs. and I are going on our very first trip to Hawaii this March. Along with our week-long vacation to Sunset Beach with the whole gosh-darned family this summer and my normal volunteer week at church camp. I've only got so much vacation time here at the Dept of Transportation.

But I AM interested in going to Kickstand Lodge. Even though I can't attend for all five days and I will probably fall waaaaay behind everybody else if y'all do the Dragon, I'd love to try it.

So please count me in for at least three days of the middle of June!!