Trip ideas for June?

[suecanada]

Thanks K_enn. I am very much a Civil War buff! Good idea!
Went to Gettysburg in 1964....still as emotionally moving when went again in 1998. Read Bruce Catton's trilogy several times.

If you don't roll over and laugh hysterically, I'll admit that I want to go to Walton's Mountain museum near Schuyler, Virginia

I so agree with Aïda that anywhere BRP is wonderful riding.

[msbuck]

Over Memorial Weekend, there is a great little rally around Cass, West VA.  Check out their website with info here... http://mountaineerbmw.org/  This is some really beautiful country with some great roads to get there - including Goshen pass.  This might be a good "R65 SleepOver"  Event that is even closer to Rob.  This one used to be one of our favorite rallies because it's small with some of my favorite riding to get there - Hwy 220 through Va!  

Nearby you can see the Greenbank Radio Observatory and take a ride on the Cass Railroad.   8-)

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Over Memorial Weekend, there is a great little rally around Cass, West VA.  Check out their website with info here... http://mountaineerbmw.org/  This is some really beautiful country with some great roads to get there - including Goshen pass.  This might be a good "R65 SleepOver"  Event that is even closer to Rob.  This one used to be one of our favorite rallies because it's small with some of my favorite riding to get there - Hwy 220 through Va!  

I searched Google Maps for 1/2 hour for this location.  I couldn't find it.  

[msbuck]

Try this, Rob.
Boyer, WV

If you look just west of the A Marker, that is the campground/hotel area where the rally is held.  Cass, WV is south and west of the rally site.  

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Try this, Rob.
Boyer, WV

If you look just west of the A Marker, that is the campground/hotel area where the rally is held.  Cass, WV is south and west of the rally site.  

Much better.  Thanks.
Well, I just looked at the vacation calendar here at work, and my co-worker already has the week before Memorial day reserved.  
And when you don't get off work until 3 or 4 am on Saturday morning, it is tough to get in a full day of riding.  Don't expect to see me there.
I will have to stick to my plan of attending the gawd-awful crowd of the MOA national, if that.

[montmil]

Back to your original post, Sue, do try for the Ducatisti festival at Barber Motorsports Park.

Just fourteen miles east of Birmingham and close by the pleasant town of Leeds -sounds rather British, doesn't it?- the Barber Park is just that... Beautiful manicured grounds, pine and hickory trees covering rolling hills, ponds with fountains and numerous, large-scale, outdoor metal sculptures dotting the acreage.

And the Barber Museum is absolutely world class.

I plan a return trip within the year.

Monte

[msbuck]

I plan a return trip within the year.

Monte  

Well, you should plan it to coincide with Sue's trip!    I agree about the Barber Museum and grounds.  It's something to see.  

[suecanada]

Thanks Aïda and Monte! I'll give the W.VA rally some thought as it sure was great riding down there in '09.  I also would hope that maybe Monte, you would decide that Oct. 6-9th was a good time to go to the Barber Museum. I'll be fresh off my step dancing and Cape Breton piano accompaniment courses in St. Ann's Cape Breton's Gaelic College. Attending them from Aug.15-20th. Riding down on the bike, stay with brother Rich and become a "butt kicker"! It's the piano lessons I am going for and the College just wants students to choose a second course...so step dancing it is for me. There go the calf muscles...hope I'll be able to ride home!

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Step dancing - clogging combined with tap dancing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96nrFtegAkQ


One of my favorite Star Trek: TNG episodes.  Start at 1:30:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P4SdvtNKdU

[suecanada]

Aïda and Graham, Stew (who you met in NC) and I are figuring on going to the Mountaineer Rally in Boyer W.Va on the Memorial weekend and would hope that you two could come. Anyone else too!!!! Please join us. I have a friend to visit over in Madison, Va at a KOA there where he decided to take a summer job just for fun. While being so close to the Appalachian Trail, he plans to get in some hiking as a test run to see if he would like to hike the whole Trail in the future. He's got some good light and small equipment now so that gear will serve for his motorcycling ventures as well.

Barber Museum is in the works too but that is a long time off.

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Good news/bad(ish) news, for me.

The best news is that the new conglomerate that is taking over the water company I work for made me an offer, and it is very nearly my same rate of pay, so it looks like my employment worries are over, for a while at least.  

Some also good news is that they finally fixed one of the programs that was running so long, and causing me to stay until 4 or 5am every "night".  So I will be able to get to bed earlier after Friday evening and possibly even get a good day's riding in on Saturdays (like Labor Day weekend... )
Of course the downside is - no more outrageous overtime checks.  Sigh...
I'll just have to be more careful how I spend my money.

So I might see you in WV late in the day on Saturday, May 28.  


And I still have my week scheduled off for the National in Penn.
And I have added the United Sidecar Assoc. National Rally to my calendar.  It is the weekend after the MOA national, and it is just across the state line at a KOA outside of Dayton, OH.  I have some old friends from my sidecaring days that I might see, and a new friend I made recently on Facebook.  She is a sidecaring freak with two rigs (both airheads).  One is a traditional one and the other is a flatbed, that she uses for really long trips & business trips, which for her is glass jewelry and other  things: http://www.rigadoonglass.com/

[suecanada]

Be great to see ya Rob. Those sidecars look to be a fine idea and serve to keep reminding me that the "RV, pop up tent sidecar" is possible. Carries your gear, sit-in possibilities and houses your tent for those quick stopovers enroute when you are too tired to put up a full tent...just wanna snooze. Thanks for posting those pics and I would like to meet the owner!

[trolle]

The best news is that the new conglomerate that is taking over the water company I work for made me an offer, and it is very nearly my same rate of pay, so it looks like my employment worries are over, for a while at least.Cheesy

Glad to hear that your employment worries are over.

greetings from a grey and cold but ridable north
trolle

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

The best news is that the new conglomerate that is taking over the water company I work for made me an offer, and it is very nearly my same rate of pay, so it looks like my employment worries are over, for a while at least.Cheesy

Glad to hear that your employment worries are over.

trolle

Well, I wouldn't say they are over, trolle.  They can always let me go when they don't need me anymore; that is, when they have converted our old billing/customer service system over to their new one.  My marketable skill (mainframe computer operation) is a real dinosaur these days.  The ice is thin and the weather keeps getting warmer.  :-/

[trolle]

My marketable skill (mainframe computer operation) is a real dinosaur these days

The dinosaurs survived! Now they have wings and a domain of their own.
Best of luck
greetings from a sunny but cold, 40 F, north