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Amarillo Ride May 1-5, 2008

This is the second multi-day ride the club has undertaken, and it was again a real good ride!  On Thursday morning the group gathered at the Cavern Inn on I-10 near Boerne, a favorite breakfast haunt before rides.  Little Jon had all the details planned, the maps to hand out, and last minute discussions while we had a good breakfast to fill us up for our epic journey.  (Anyone who has gone on a ride with this club knows that the eating is always good, and that was certainly true on this trip).  The crew for the journey was: 

• Little Jon Matthews, Leader (group Mother).  Man with the most decorated bike.
• Bob and Malva Burrahm (Bob is stationed in China doing SwRI business and they came all the way over for this ride.  Good to see them again.  He took the long distance award by a huge margin, and they both relayed many interesting stories about their stay in China during the trip.  Bob rented a Harley for the ride.)
• Dennis Scheidt and Jim LaGrone (Jim is Dennis’ son-in-law and came over from Houston for the ride.  He rode a rented Goldwing, a great bike when you figure out how to turn off the reverse.  After riding with Jim for a couple days, and him buying a couple rounds of beer, we held an impromptu club meeting in Sweetwater and voted Jim in unanimously as a new club member.  Dennis wins the Senior Rider award, again!)
• Daniel and Margie Garcia (Daniel was our sweeper and showed off his new ride, a Honda ST 1300.  He got a little perturbed when I told him I could smoke him with my 1982 Honda 750.....Margie is our most consistent female and is always a hoot on group rides.)
• Dwaine Smith and Glenn Penna (This was the first multi-day club ride for both these guys.  Glenn was the only one who rode the trip without a windshield, which was a tough haul especially in the windy plains up north.  Dwaine’s Vulcan is pretty new for him, and he’s still working on locating the blinker “off” switch.....)
• Art Nicholls and Steve Clay (These guys decided to iron butt the first day, getting up in the dark Friday morning and riding the first 280 miles to Sweetwater to meet the rest of us for breakfast.  Then they hopped back on for the 260 mile run with the rest of us to Amarillo.  They win the stud awards.)
• Scott Mullin (winner of the oldest bike in the group award, plus best hat award, and, Best Hat Bouncing Down the Highway award.)

Click on each day for photos and story details.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5