I had the pleasure of participating in the 2009 Not Superman Rally. Its a 54 hour endurance rally for motorcyclist. It was made of two 27 hour legs, each with a mandatory 3 hour rest break. The purpose of the rally is to collect as many points as you can during each one of the legs. Points are collected by taking pictures of the bonus locations with your rally flag also showing in the picture. Some bonuses are different but for the most part that is what is required. Usually the farther the location from the starting point the higher point [View Full Entry]

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28 June 2009 Sunday Although I once again planned to get up and get home early, it did not work out that way. I was tired in the morning and moved the alarm back an hour from my original plan. Then there was this movie on TV I didn’t wait for the end of it, but I watched way too much of it as I fixed the route to home. Carol told me to eat at the Bohemian Café on the way home so I needed to find it and plot a point to add it to my route. Carol had [View Full Entry]

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27 JUNE 2009 Saturday Left this morning about 10:30am pulled into a motel at 12:30am. The goal for the day was to get a picture by a Ziebach County sign for the ABCs of Touring. This lead me on the best ride of the trip. The second goal was to get a picture of the MN state line sign. I love little towns and this route through SD was full of them. Starting the day in SW North Dakota I am heading for the Blue Bunny factory in LeMars IA it has an ice cream shop that is open until 10:30PM. [View Full Entry]

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26 JUNE 2009 Friday The main goal for the day was to see the Enchanted Highway. The Enchanted Highway is the county road between Gladstone ND and Regent ND. Second camera is a bust. Won’t save files anymore. I don’t have a simple SD card to make sure it is not a SD card failure, all I have is the newer HCSD cards. Bummer it is smaller and fits in a jacket or pants pocket. Spearfish to Sturgis, bought a couple shirts at a bargin shop. 3 for $25. She threw in 2 bandanas. Dealer shirts were $39 ea I passed [View Full Entry]

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25 JUNE 2009 Thursday Gone from the hotel by 7am. The weather was great. I’m convinced it is actually cooler wearing my armored jacket than it is just a t-shirt. The only time I was uncomfortable was when I stopped to take pictures or get gas. Again the weather is great for riding. The scenery is just beautiful here. First stop was Wounded Knee, SD. It was not what I was expecting. I had read again some accounts of the massacre on the internet the night before. The mass grave is atop a big hill. The only road I saw at [View Full Entry]

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24 June 2009 Wednesday I over slept at Kay and Jackies. Jackie was leaving for work at 6:30am, I set my alarm for 6am and it went off, then I must have just gone back to sleep because I woke up closer to 8:30am. Not in a real hurry to leave now I didn’t want to be out there in rush hour traffic. Kay and I had a leasurly breakfast of donuts and talked again of all things important. It did not take long for me to be packed and on the road yet again. The plan was to head for [View Full Entry]

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This is my 2009 June Trip. A 6 day trip it starts on Tuesday June 23nd and ends on Sunday afternoon June 28th. The elaborate name comes from whatever my GPS file containing the routes is called. When I started the file I didn't know where I was going so the date became the file name. You can double click on any of these pictures and they should enlarge for you. This was originally going to be a trip to ride Route 66, but the weather is sooooooooo hot. I decided two days before I was to leave that I was [View Full Entry]

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7 June 2009, Sunday The Vintage Bike Show finished off a really great weekend. Well over a thousand miles and three days. Life is good. Today I slept til 11AM then called Darrel and asked if he was ready for go to a bike show. A call to Roger to confirm where it was and we were off. Darrels son Nickolas came with us. He was passenger on Darrels bike. I had planned to eat lunch there but there were not any vendors. I ran into several people I knew. Floyd Fleming was one of the first ones. Central Midwest HOG [View Full Entry]

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The Email: ============== Dances With Turtles IV RTE will be held Saturday June 6, 2009 at Giant City State Park Lodge approximately 12 miles south of Carbondale, Illinois. Coordinates: N37 35.573 W089 11.010. Info on the facility can be found here www.giantcitylodge.com Roads to the Lodge are paved and there is a large concrete parking area. There is no entrance fee to the park. Lunch will begin at 12:00 noon (CDT) so arrive early for tire kicking and tall tales. The restaurant is famous for fried chicken dinners. In order to expedite service to a group, management strongly recommend [View Full Entry]

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4 JUNE 2009 - Friday So it was Friday, I had arranged to be off all 3 days of the weekend and wanted to spend it riding. I thought to start it off I would head to Lawrence KS and get my 1 point in the ABCs of Touring for the KS HOG Rally. I would spend the rest of the day collecting other ABC points and riding SE KS. Up by 10am I am shortly on the road and heading to Lawrence. I could take the interstate, a toll road, but I hate paying tolls so I head off on [View Full Entry]

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