Hi Everyone,
We are so pleased.... Jim and I planned and arranged a 9/11 Memorial Ride on Monday --9/11.
We had it in the paper and on the local radio. ...invited motorcyclists and classic car owners and anyone else who wanted to participate to attach their flags and memorial signs. But had no idea how many, if any would show up.
The radio called me earlier in the day to see how many and I told them could be 5, could be 40 -- I really had no idea. Had only had about 3 phone calls about it.
Well we arrived at the place we were starting about 15 minutes early and there were already about 10 bikes and 6 or 7 classic cars. And.... they just kept rolling in. We were totally blown away. We had about 50 bikes and 25 to 30 classic cars. We rode thru Colville and over to Kettle Falls...next town over, about 8 miles away; and then back to and through Colville again. It was so awesome. We were not supposed to have a police escort, because we did not plan it in time to get permission from the Mayor for that, but one of the guys called them and they sent a police car to escort us since there were so many. We got to ride through the lights and stop signs, etc.
He escorted us clear to Kettle Falls and had called ahead to have a KF officer escort us thru KF. It was just way cool.
We were in the lead... that is Jim with the big flag and me with the red leather jacket and two smaller flags on the back of my bike. It was so cool to look in our mirrors and see nothing but motorcycles behind us. And the sound was of course great!
If the photo is blurry, right click on it and click on "show original image". You can also go to the local newspaper site and see it and what they wrote... http://www.statesmanexaminer.com/ Or try this if that site moves the articles... http://www.statesmanexaminer.com/images/stories/September11Ride.jpg They had our advertisment for the run on the front page last week and this week... we are on the front page again. Can you tell ... we are very pleased about how well it all turned out. Everyone involved wants us to do it again... they kept saying this is the "first annual run". At this point we are planning on doing just that. We feel that people are forgetting that awful day and want to remind them of all who were lost.
Anyway..... just wanted to share with you guys.
Bunny & Jim
