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02/15/18 at 13:20:07
 


MM's leg went septic on him and put him in the hospital for 3 days  ----  so the trip is cancelled as MM is too too stubborn and he would still try to go otherwise if there still was a trip to go on.



Meet up area by Lake City Florida, near Jacksonville on drive in day.    Date March 8th

Meet up here at Ruby Tuesday at 5:00 to 6:00 PM, eat and then roll out to the campground.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ruby+Tuesday/@30.1779019,-82.6836701,1347m/...

https://freecampsites.net/#!96&query=sitedetails

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/lake-city-fl/32055/month/332305?monyr=3/01/...





Daytona Beach area (Bike Week)   Dates March 9th-14th    (variable according to rain forecast and interest in the Bike Week events)    MM has reservations at a campground where we will stay for a day or three.     http://bikeweekcampground.com/

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/daytona-beach-fl/32114/month/328173?monyr=3...





Down by DuPuis / Indiantown (main camping place)   Dates variable according to rain forecast and interest.   You could say it is a free backup for Bike Week rainout days.   Here is an overview of the campground.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_CJXDMflg

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/indiantown-fl/34956/month/15185_pc?monyr=3/...    





These perfectly beautiful weather results are really still too early to get overly excited over, but they are there for your viewing pleasure ......     We know they shift some two weeks out, and become much more specific for days and amounts of precipitation during that last week.
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #1 - 02/15/18 at 21:56:39
 
mayonnaise wrestling +1  Grin
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #2 - 02/15/18 at 22:30:37
 
http://officialbikeweek.com/Bike-Week-Calendar/

More viewing pleasure .   I like the part about Free BBQ , and Free Pancake Breakfast .... sure ... I'll make a donation , but the word "FREE" makes it taste Better !  Grin

We have a Daytona Campground rev. for the 9th,10th and 16th.  at the Volusia county fair grounds .   that's the Swap-meet and The Burning Bike thing too , included into the camping price.
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #3 - 02/16/18 at 08:04:53
 
Guys, You might want to work this in sometime during your travels,

http://flstrawberryfestival.com/

It IS a big deal!
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #4 - 02/16/18 at 15:26:04
 
To repeat what OldFeller said !  ,

I think this is the North Florida camp we're using once each way :   https://freecampsites.net/#!96&query=sitedetails

It may be $8.oo , but that is fair-enough for a hot shower ! (8th+16th)   Also , after reading some of the reviews  I understand the National Park Pass works here too.

I'll see if I can find the South Florida one next :

https://freecampsites.net/#!409&query=sitedetails

Depuis Equestrian at gate 3 ,  Reservations  already made   (9-15th)
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The 9th , 10th and 16th  at Daytona FastLane is just so we don't have to run back and forth from Depuis , and to keep more options open !
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Have you fellers looked at the Calendar of Events ?  Some of this stuff looks like fun !  : http://officialbikeweek.com/Bike-Week-Calendar/

http://officialbikeweek.com/event-detail/Free-Sober-Clean-Hog-Roast-and-Live-...

Some of this stuff might be Fun , even without being DRUNK !  
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http://officialbikeweek.com/event-detail/Bike-Week-Annual-Bike-Blessing/
Here is one for a free pancake breakfast !
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #5 - 02/16/18 at 21:29:53
 
Hay Dave !   Scroll down on this link !   :   http://fastlanedaytona.com/

They probably would let me and you play in their pen if we sign a waver !

Wish you could go with us ... between both of us ... one of us might win the Slow Race on Game day .  Wink
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #6 - 02/16/18 at 21:33:08
 
mmmmmmmmmayonaise! Cool
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #7 - 02/17/18 at 00:12:45
 

Coleslaw, not mayonnaise.
That slippery stuff that the girls are wallowing in is coleslaw fresh made over at the Cabbage Patch.

Home of the World Famous Coleslaw Wrestling Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch Bar 549 Tomoka Farms Road Samsula, FL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsvzth2clQ8


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Neat new trick we are trying out this trip is Locational Awareness.    By sharing a code with the riding group we can see a local map on the Life360 app with a colored dot for each named rider showing on it.

Example:   I get up on the go morning and see that MM is still at home.  Quick call, new eating time established while MM does what he needs to do before leaving.

Jed gets lost at a turn by not keeping up with the group or Oldfeller loses the group by getting too far out in front of them.   Folks stop, pop out the phones and can quickly see where the errant boy is sitting waiting for them.   Confidence restored, group comes back together seamlessly.

Better yet, new uses.
Zippy or Stew wants to catch the moving group on the road as they go by a join up point.   Zippy/Stew gets to the join up point half an hour early and sits in the nearby McDonalds soaking up coffee and free wifi and watching the cluster of dots approach.   5 mins out, they move to the appropriate exit ramp and physically see the boys go by, then they instantly pull out and joint the back of the pack.

Next example, somebody wants to come for just one night.   How does he find the group as they roll around in the Bike Week Chaos?   Answer -- look for the dots on the Life360 app.  Hey, looks like they are waiting in line to try out a new old fart mountain rider bike at the Suzuki Pavillion.

The app also does instant messaging within the group which is also kinda neat.

Easy do with Life360, but something we have never been able to do before otherwise.
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #8 - 02/17/18 at 14:02:04
 
Smiley

I'm getting "Stuff" out of the attic to see how to tie it on ...

If there is room I'll bring a single burner stove a folding frying pan , and a two cup coffee pot for instant French Vanilla Cappuccino ... it might be good to be able to fix single pan dish items  ,  Grill cheese or BBQ Chicken or ???   Roll Eyes


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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #9 - 02/17/18 at 23:26:58
 
Was there in '95 on a Honda Ascot 500 v-twin. had to avoid the rural bar where they were doing the Jap Bike Drop from a tall crane, in case someone chose mine! Pretty much a mindless weekend all told. Never did make it to the Speedway, which was the reason to be there in the first place. Nice coleslaw/mayo though! Grin
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #10 - 02/18/18 at 00:41:02
 

We are 3 weeks out with a slot still open in the tent --- if you wanna come, say so.


Seriously now boys, if MM is planning on cooking, he really needs a head count .....
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #11 - 02/18/18 at 07:40:11
 
Good Morning

OldFeller , I don't want to cook a lot , but with Indian Town being 10 miles away  ... having access to a snack and a hot drink might be nice !  Wink

Things like , bring back from town : Match light charcol
                                           Skinless-boneless chicken breast home with us
                                           Instant hot drink mixes
                                           Loaf of bread
                                           That Cheese that don't have to have a fridgerator
                                           BBQ sauce
                                           Small bottle of Olive oil.
                                                   etc.

Have you got a collapsible bucket for doing dishes ?   A drop of Shampoo and a green scrubby type kitchen.  Roll Eyes
The Stove I had in mind is one of these "Fold-up" wood/charcoal put it in a pouch when your done kind .   I have three different types of them and they all have their good points. (Left-over from Scout-Master Days)  Smiley
No Fancy cooking Promised
                           




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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #12 - 02/18/18 at 08:00:42
 
I read an article a few days ago about a fellow that was riding and didn't have a lot of room - but needed to pack food.  He packed cans beans and a can opener.....any variety of canned beans....didn't really matter.  The beans could be eaten cold, provided good nourishment, and when done the spoon would be washed and the can collapsed for easy packing (if you want them warmed up put them on the cylinder head for 20 miles).  Same could be done with Beanie/Weenie, Spam, and other foods like Pop Tarts, Jerky, etc.  

The fine dining can be done at local Cafe' and restaurants.
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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #13 - 02/18/18 at 17:40:26
 
  ---  BEANS !!! ---  Dave ... !    

We're talking about Sharing a tent with OldFeller Here !!!  Grin Grin Grin

I thought we were FRIENDS !    Huh

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Well , maybe , the tent is vented on top and two sides ...  Roll Eyes

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Come to think of it ....  Embarrassed ....    Two of us in there doing the same thing !   Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin   might be like Laughing Gas ?  

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Re: Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17
Reply #14 - 02/18/18 at 18:43:12
 

10 miles is not very far to us and I suspect a quick pick gas station is a lot closer -- morning coffee can be had there for less than a buck, generally.

I think the biggest organized meal of the trip will be the meet up meal at Ruby Tuesday, as Ruby was picked simply because it had free wifi and I could see where MM was located on the road while reading a book as I waited.

Although the salad bar at Ruby is healthy enough, the burger that comes with it is a half pound of meat with double crossed full slices of thick bacon, cheese, tomato, lettuce,  pickle, mayo  --- it is a true premium burger with all that comes with it.

This old man doesn't eat that many half pound burgers any more, so I will likely will take half with me in a take out box and eat it cold at camp for a snack later on.

Got to have something stupid, beefy and bacon flavored sitting in my hot saddle bag to attract all them hungry blind snakes, armadillos, pythons, feral hogs, black bears and gators after we go to bed after all ......



Same smell (half digested) drifting out from the tent flap and vents might fetch them just about as well, you know that them larger pigs, pythons, bears and gators surely do like catching and eating them a couple of ripe old farts all tortilla wrapped in a sleeping bag.    

Semi-wild pigs have no fear of human beings, remember ..... and eating them some long pork that smells of bacon is jest a bit of "turn about is fair play" to them.    And certainly the gators don't care, no fear of people at all ......


https://www.floridatoday.com/story/sports/outdoors/bill-sargent/2014/10/18/bi...




taken at the campground where we are staying first night, so eating lots of beans and pooting a bunch might not be a good idea after all.



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