Just for the record, if I might quote you, "I've put about 60,000 miles on it and have ridden it coast to coast and to lots of places in between." so what is a few hours if there is something that you really want to do?
Just kidding...
Oh Connie..by the way I told you that you should have come to the RON DEE VOO again. We had a training session there this year. No, it wasn't a S/TEP course but we had a good turnout and got good reviews on it. So...See you at RDVIII ..Aug.3-6,2006.
Chuck, Hal & Claude,
At this point, after having driven a rig for 9 years and 60,000 (probably more like 80,000) miles, I'm not too concerned about taking a class. Certainly not enough to travel to any of locations mentioned for a weekend stay. If I'm going to travel, I want it to be to some place of interest. However, if I had known about them when I started riding, I definitely would have given it great consideration.
Claude - - I really wanted to make it to the Ron Dee Voo, and probably would have if motels weren't so expensive in your area. We had just gotten back from a two week trip to Colorado which cost us a pretty big chunk of change. I guess the kicker for me was that my husband couldn't take off from work early enough for us to make it for the training and I really wanted to do that. Oh well, maybe next year!
Connie
Connie wrote:
>>Claude - - I really wanted to make it to the Ron Dee Voo, and probably would have if motels weren't so expensive in your area. We had just gotten back from a two week trip to Colorado which cost us a pretty big chunk of change. I guess the kicker for me was that my husband couldn't take off from work early enough for us to make it for the training and I really wanted to do that. Oh well, maybe next year!
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Just to set the record straight some had gotten motels for under 50 bucks a nite. In this area it is a good idea to get reservations ahead of time due to functions at Bucknel University etc. Some that did not get reservations still found rooms for under 60 dollars. This may not be the least expensive out there but compared to many it isn't that bad at all.And these are not 'room by the hour' flea bag motels.
Claude, who prefers to hang out with the rally folks and camp anyhow.
as far as motels go, anything over $40 per night is too much. check arond at the independants..we always find low rates and good rooms there. Dont need all the bells and whistles that the biggies offer. All we want to do a sleep, and go!
camp at the rallys, motel on the way home.
Amen Bob. But some do not like to camp or some are not able to camp for various reasons and it can be a delima for them. To me some of the best times at any rally is just hanging out in the evening with the rally goers. As far as motel prices go I still see them even down below 30 bucks on some of th eless traveled roads (the roads I prefer to travel on)
and many of these places are old mom and pop motels and are really nice.
Bruce Stephens if you are reading this I am not talking about the 24 dollar a night budget motel with no heat when we went to W.Va....But then again it made for som egood 'remember the time ' stories... 🙂
Hey! I think my post got hijacked. 🙂
Just took the hack for a ride around the hood (back streets)with the wife and kid.
Now that I understand how the lean works, it's alot more fun to drive. I set it and just rode. It's amazing how well it handles when the lean is set correctly.
I'll do the hood a couple more times and then start venturing out a bit.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Y'all just might make a hack pilot out of me yet.
Wingnit,
That's the fun of these forums. Just like taking off in the hack, you don't really know where you will end up.
Lonnie
Hi Claude,
I do camp, but only in my motorhome and I have yet to figure out how to drive it and my rig at the same time! I don't have a trailer for my rig. I either drive it or it doesn't go. It did go to Daytona once in a friend's trailer. But he's a motorcycle dealer and that was a huge trailer. I'm sure that it would be way more fun to hang around with everyone in the evening than to go back to a motel. But after enduring 108 degrees coming back from Colorado on that three day trip from he--, I just couldn't muster the umph to deal with sleeping in a tent. My husband said that I had to find a motel for $50.00 or less, or sleep in a tent. That just wasn't going to happen. No $50.00 motels and Connie wasn't sleeping in a tent! Yeh, making reservations early would have been helpful, but I wasn't sure that we would be able to go. Anyway, like I said before, maybe next year. I'm definitely marking the dates on my calendar!
Connie
