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Saturday, October 6, 2007 6:30-7:30 AM Registration. Continental breakfast provided. 7:00 AM Optional chapel service. 7:15 AM Rider’s meeting. 7:30 AM First rider departs. 12:00 noon Catered lunch at a North Georgia lakeshore with live music. 5:00 PM Arrive at the end point. Evening program, dinner and prize drawing. The Dream House 500 is a charity fundraising event to support Dream House for Medically Fragile Children and provide an enjoyable motorcycle adventure for its participants. It is actually two events in one, providing a 500km day of sport touring over the Southern Appalachian's best roads and a shorter route which includes some unpaved Forest Service roads for adventure touring riders. Grand Prize $1,000 Gift Certificate from Tucker-Rocky. Prize courtesy of Tucker-Rocky Distributing and BMW Motorcycles of Atlanta. Start and end point: Honda Rider Education Center, 1450 Morrison Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30004. N34.05900 W84.29403

On my trip to Columbus, as I pulled in for my first gas stop on the trip, suddenly the speedo and its light went dead. A little testing proved the turn signals and rear brake light were dead as well. The headlight and running lights (both front and rear were working). I did a brief inspection but couldn't locate anything. So hand signals were the rule of the day. But needless to say, the larger percentage of the general driving public doesn't know standard hand signals and are without a clue when they see them displayed in front of them what is being communicated. That being the case, I looked three times, hand signaled and looked some more when I was making lane changes, stopping, etc. Yes, I know there are a lot of folks riding without turn signals (Jeffery). But, I am just not comfortable in interstate traffic without working signals. Refrain from emailing me sissy comments, thanks. I consulted a friend who owns a bike shop who I met up with on the way to Columbus. We pulled...

Downtown Columbus, Georgia was closed down for the 5th Annual Bikes on Broadway chairty event for Our House of Columbus. Live Music and vendors were on hand as well as a ton of bikes. It was a beautiful weekend for the event and a good time was had by all. I managed a few pictures with the old trusty cell phone.

November 10, 2007 registration starts at 9am, ride leaves at 11am from South Forsyth High School HWY 141 - Peachtree PKWY Cumming, GA and ends at Paul's Margarita deck in Helen, GA.

And fall leads to cooler temperatures and wood cutting and such which means:

Miss South Carolina pointed out that some people out there in our nation don't have maps. What to do? Buy a T-Shirt! "..and everywhere such as"