Modern Vespa

I'm glad you keep the "can" with you at each gathering.

Sorry to hear Ralph, but glad you’re are fine. Well miss you (and talk about you - fondly, mostly...) and look forward to seeing you in the spring.

Rest up and heal well, Ralph. Amy and I were looking forward to seeing you. Hopefully we'll make it down to see you at the next one.

Ralph, you will be missed! Heal well!

Glad they took good care of you!

Stopped for lunch at Avanti's in Peoria, as usual. Drove right past a
Portillo's to get there (for those that means something to...)

Stopped for the night in Lexington, KY, so I've got about 5 hours still to
go tomorrow. We'll see if I get there and my tent pitched in time to do an
afternoon ride...

Mark

Made it to Hazard, Kentucky. Bike decided to take a nap and snap both left
side tie downs and lay over. A nice motorist informed me and then helped me
get it back up and tie down with new straps. Now I've stopped for lunch and
will finish my trip. Should be there about 3.

Sorry to hear it, hope your bike is OK.

By the way, I have some spare tie-downs at my house....

Good arrivals, Mostly. Some had adventures. Others were just hot. Hopefully cooler temps tomorrow. Dinner was diverse, some ate brisket, some chicken.

The morning ride was going well until a pickup came around the corner in
our lane and caused TN Sooner to dodge right into a patch of gravel and go
down hard. He ended up having to take an ambulance while OAD went back to
pick up a trailer for his scooter.

Please keep him in your prayers.

Ouch. Hope he isn't much injured and gets back to his feet quickly.

Sort of hard to get back in the mood after something like this happens; I hope the rest of you continue to enjoy the rides.

A few pics

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Home. Thanks for a good weekend! I hope you all arrive safely!

Next Gathering at Vogel State Park in Georgia Apr 30 to May 3.

Home. 1234 miles for me. Going a day early allows more miles. 😀

Proved to be as great an area as we could hope for. Roads as good as any we have ridden and almost no traffic. Unfortunately one farmer hauling hay talking his half of road out of middle caused our first injury.

We will probably be back in region next fall. Possibly at Breaks Interstate Park.

Nor, here's a link to the Denali SoundBomb Mini horn that we were talking about. It's inexpensive and easy to mount.

It was great to see everyone and the riding was fantastic. Sorry I missed riding with y'all yesterday. I/we hope to be back again next spring.

Got TN Sooner's bike dropped off at OAD's beautiful new house, so that's
one less thing he'll have to worry about.

I stopped at the rest stop in Metropolis on my way back home to pick up
some promotional lit and took a selfie while I was there ;-D

So, it turns out that I woke up in Marion, drove West all day and spent the
night in Marion...

Fairly easy drive home today, so that's nice.

Mark

Mark you seem to bulked up a bit since I last seen you?

A couple of photos and a video link from the weekend.

Enjoyed seeing everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/12L5caVi3ko

Smooth touch on the clutch.

And I thought I'd be different and wear my underwear on the outside, too

I made it home safe and sound. No more incidents with strap breakage. Hooray!

It was great riding with all y'all again. I'm already looking forward to the end of April...

Mark

Thanks for the video and pics, Kevin. If you have any more please do not hesitate to share...

Thanks!

It was great seeing everyone and the roads were excellent. It was definitely worthy of a return visit!

I'm not usually superstitious, but maybe we should not schedule any further gathering dates that fall on a Friday the 13th...

Thanks for the pics!

Hey gang. I’m home released from the hospital. I’ve got nine broken ribs. I got a broken right owner that’s been surgically reset. I feel pretty good although the ride home was pretty miserable hunter pretty tired after that I will see doctors in Tennessee later today and tomorrow.

Great to see everyone even though I didn’t get to spend much time with you thanks for all the help look forward to sketching up with you guys soon

[quote="TN_Sooner"]Hey gang. I’m home released from the hospital. /quote]

Will,
So sorry to hear about visit to that expensive resort in Bristol. Glad to hear you doing better already. Skip the gathering and come to the Europe thing. We drink more and in fact are about to leave the hotel to go have a few for you.
Ken

Will, I am glad to hear you are getting better! I hope recovery is fast and complete!

Hello folks,

I really enjoyed the posting of the pictures. Thanks.

My recovery is progressing nicely and I feel great, like I should be out riding. But I'm still under a 5# weight restriction. I see my primary care doc tomorrow and then start rehab next Tuesday for 12 weeks ( @3/week ).

Thanks for the well wishes and the card. I'm sure I'll be back on the road again before the snow flies, maybe sooner.

I am already gearing up for next spring see y'all then. BTW; I sure did miss you guys (and Nor and Carolyn).

Glad to hear both of you are on the road to recovery

KevinK, if you could, please post a link to that first aid kit you had.

Thanks!

Vogel is completely booked for a special event. We need to change to copperhead lodge

That sound like a great alternative, especially since I missed the last Gathering there.

Has anyone started a 2020 Spring Gathering thread?

just did