szurszewski Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Well Jeremiah is certianly going to be excited! Can't even begin to imagine how many times he's told me and about anyone else who'd listen about the Crazy horse Memorial since we visited in November. Most often heard: "...and the entire Mount Rushmore carving would fit inside Crazy Horse's head!" Link to comment
TEWKS Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 The dates are close enough to Sturgis 2018. If time allowed, you could make it a twofer! A bit Sturgis curious, never been, maybe for good reason. Pat Link to comment
BrianT Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Is that a hint????? If it is, I'm already posting my ... IN! Link to comment
Bill_Walker Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Dang. Another one (like Red Lodge) I probably won't be able to make due to being scheduled the week after our standing (30+ years) family trip. Sigh. Link to comment
Endobob Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Well Jeremiah is certianly going to be excited! Can't even begin to imagine how many times he's told me and about anyone else who'd listen about the Crazy horse Memorial since we visited in November. Most often heard: "...and the entire Mount Rushmore carving would fit inside Crazy Horse's head!" I am with Jeremiah on this one! My first visit was as a 10 year old. My dad took us all over the United States first camping and then later pulling a small travel trailer. I have been back to Crazy Horse Memorial 4 times since and will continue to go every time I am even close to it. I am definitely and "IN" for next years UN. Link to comment
Medic Mike Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Going to try to make this my inaugural Un. Let us hope the EMS Gods smile upon me so I can make it. Link to comment
szurszewski Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Dang. Another one (like Red Lodge) I probably won't be able to make due to being scheduled the week after our standing (30+ years) family trip. Sigh. No chance the family trip can be to SD I suppose? Link to comment
Lester V Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Raaaaaan, you in for this? Link to comment
Burt Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 IN. I missed the one in Red Lodge last year. I don't want to miss this one. I'd like to make a side trip to Montana before or after the UN. Link to comment
Heck Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Well I can see that it is already time to start sucking up to the vacation schedulers.......Tentative IN...... Link to comment
EffBee Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 ININININININININININININININININININININ !!! Link to comment
realshelby Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 ININININININININININININININININININININ !!! I thought that was out of your radius? I am a high percentage probable at the moment..... Link to comment
OoPEZoO Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Been there, done that......but it was on my RT while the Sturgis rally was going on. I'd love to get back there with out all the leather chaps and chromed out rolling road blocks. Its one of the most interesting landscapes I've ever seen. I have it on the calendar, and hope to make it. Can we please pray for triple digit heat in the plains that week? You know.....because it wouldn't be a proper road trip without it Link to comment
randy Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I am in trailering out riding, riding, riding Trailering home Ok my trip planning is done 😀 Link to comment
** Chris ** Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Sign me up! Or at least remind me to sign up! Link to comment
lawnchairboy Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 In. Praying to the vacation gods. Link to comment
randy Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I am in (updated based upon earlier triple digit remark) trailering out (in my air-conditioned truck) riding, riding, riding Trailering home (in my air-conditioned truck) Ok my trip planning is done 😀 Link to comment
Lone_RT_rider Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Can we please pray for triple digit heat in the plains that week? You know.....because it wouldn't be a proper road trip without it Link to comment
Bill_Walker Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Dang. Another one (like Red Lodge) I probably won't be able to make due to being scheduled the week after our standing (30+ years) family trip. Sigh. No chance the family trip can be to SD I suppose? No, it's a trip to a particular resort in the Sacramento Delta for waterskiing, that I've been going to since I was 5 and my current extended family has been going to nearly as long. My BIL's boat is stored there. And being gone for 2.5 or more weeks straight would be complicated. Link to comment
szurszewski Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Dang. Another one (like Red Lodge) I probably won't be able to make due to being scheduled the week after our standing (30+ years) family trip. Sigh. No chance the family trip can be to SD I suppose? No, it's a trip to a particular resort in the Sacramento Delta for waterskiing, that I've been going to since I was 5 and my current extended family has been going to nearly as long. My BIL's boat is stored there. And being gone for 2.5 or more weeks straight would be complicated. *sad face* I mean, that sounds like a very fun vacation...but, still... Link to comment
Bill_Walker Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 *sad face* I mean, that sounds like a very fun vacation...but, still... Yeah, I hate to miss this one, just like I hated to miss Red Lodge. It's not impossible, but the need to preserve marital harmony may take precedent. Link to comment
mrzoom Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 News flash.. Your 2015 BMW RT maybe possessed by evil spirits that only can be removed at a special service to be held July 24th, 2018 at Chief Crazy Pony's statue at high noon. Solar scientists say this is the only time and place your BMW can be cured. Link to comment
Dennis Andress Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Yeah! I'll work on getting there... Link to comment
Bill_Walker Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 News flash.. Your 2015 BMW RT maybe possessed by evil spirits that only can be removed at a special service to be held July 24th, 2018 at Chief Crazy Pony's statue at high noon. Solar scientists say this is the only time and place your BMW can be cured. Link to comment
chrisolson Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Yeah, that looks good. On the calendar ! Assistance offered if needed. Link to comment
BrianT Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Is it sad that I'm already looking at maps and routes and getting excited about something that doesn't happen for another year? Link to comment
randy Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Brian T, shoot you are not even in the running, I have already created an excel workbook showing the driving time, stops and route from Atlanta to SD and back. I have a worksheet for trip out, one worksheet for each days riding and one worksheet for the trip back. My planning OCD is so bad, my wife jokes that I need to take up METH so I would have more time for my family. :-) Link to comment
Ron_B Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Raaaaaan, you in for this? Uh...Mmm...Well...'K. I've got a family reunion in southern Illinois on Sunday, so will be a little late. (Tuesday evening) Link to comment
AZgman Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Well, this may be doable for me. I haven't been to an "UN" since NH! Awaiting details! Link to comment
Jacqueline Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 (edited) We're IN!!!!!! Edited August 13, 2017 by Jacqueline Link to comment
NickInSac Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 YES!!! Time to check on my vacation accounts. Link to comment
Heck Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Can we please pray for triple digit heat in the plains that week? You know.....because it wouldn't be a proper road trip without it Bite your tongue sir!!!!! Link to comment
Kitsap Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Never been, probably should. Looking at best 3 day route there; I-90 is soul sucking. Link to comment
Lone_RT_rider Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Never been, probably should. Looking at best 3 day route there; I-90 is soul sucking. I've crossed the the plains states on I-90, I-80 and I-70. For me, the most soul sucking is I-80 through Nebraska. I never had music on the bike until..... I made a game of watching the elevation go up on the GPS one.........foot......at a ......time. From Iowa to the I-76 exit on I-80 it goes from 800 feet to 4000 feet. One......foot......at a.......time Link to comment
MikeRC Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Never been, probably should. Looking at best 3 day route there; I-90 is soul sucking. Wade: I can help with that There is actually lots of stuff to see, but I'm not sure what you have done before. All the high passes will be open (although forest fire season will have started). You could go down the east side of Rainier & Mt St Helens, head east on the north side of the Columbia River (WA 14), over to Palouse Falls, follow the Snake & Clearwater Rivers. Or the St Joe River if you have already done Lolo Pass/US12 a few times. Then it depends if you want to go through or avoid Yellowstone. Next head to the US212/I-90 intersection (Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument) and follow US212 to Devils' Tower and then the Black Hills. Bring lots of water. Mike Cassidy Link to comment
Kitsap Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Mike, Looks entertaining. Thanks. Link to comment
OoPEZoO Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Never been, probably should. Looking at best 3 day route there; I-90 is soul sucking. Lots of good ways to get over those mountains.....I-90 ain't one of them. I suggest Lolo Pass, Chief Joseph Highway and/or Beartooth Pass, swing through Red Lodge, 14 through Bighorn National Forest, down through Thunder Basin, and roll into SD where you see fit. You won't be sorry, even if it takes an extra day Link to comment
TN_R_Girl Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 In. Praying to the vacation gods. Me too... Maybe a Clampett Reunion is in order?? Link to comment
lawnchairboy Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 You have to remember the all powerful blue snuggie Link to comment
Lone_RT_rider Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 You have to remember the all powerful blue snuggie It has.... heavenly powers Link to comment
TN_R_Girl Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 You have to remember the all powerful blue snuggie Indeed... the vault will be opened should the planets align ... Link to comment
TN_R_Girl Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 You have to remember the all powerful blue snuggie It has.... heavenly powers :rofl: Link to comment
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