Born To Ride News

If you never been you owe it to yourself to go at least once … Rolling Thunder.

There are lots of ways to get there. There is the Ride to the Wall-Southern Style, the Auto-Train, ship your bike and fly, ride up with my Chapter. We usually stay overnight in Florence, SC on Thursday night and ride into DC on Friday. The candlelight vigil is Friday night, Saturday can be as full of things to do as you like. We usually participate in the TAPs program for the children. There are visits to Ft Washington Harley, Arlington, Walter Reed, there is a program at the Lincoln Memorial; there is a vendor area near the Viet Nam Wall, lots of places to see and things to do. Sunday is ride day. It starts in the Pentagon Parking lot with a family reunion with about 500,000 of your favorite relatives and ends at the reflection pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. That’s after the ride over Memorial Bridge and down Constitution Avenue, all this for a 15-20 minute ride. Why you say?  Because we are there to tell our elected officials we will never forget those still missing and unaccounted for. We will hold them accountable until the last one is accounted for.

Several folks are staying at the Crowne Plaza in Crystal City because Bo McCormick has worked a deal for free parking; and talking to the chef about a buffet setup for Saturday morning, Saturday evening and Sunday morning, like he did last year. I can’t remember what price he negotiated, but it was around $100 a night. If you double up it would only be $50. When you call ask for Rolling Thunder rates. The food costs are above the room costs, but were reasonable.

Our Chapter will be leaving early Thursday morning 27 May. Usually we head back on Monday morning (Memorial Day). I’m not sure if we are going over to ride the Dragon or head straight back. Regardless, you can’t get lost. Just point south and keep going til you see Tampa. I’ve ridden 301 a couple of times. It takes a little longer, but beats the Interstate.

It’s a great ride and a ton of fun. You won’t regret it. You have plenty of time to plan for it.

v/r

Jim Linesberry

President

Rolling Thunder

Florida Chapter 11

www.RollingThunderFL11.com