The 2024 Fall Sidecar Muster for the Ark-La-Okie-Tex area is scheduled for October 11-13 at:
Lake O’ Pines RV Park, Marina & Inn at 16851 Hwy 155 North of Ore City, Texas, on the Northwest side of Lake of the Pines with 15 lodging units plus RV/camping spots. Please make your own lodging/camping reservations by phone 903-968-3183, or email fun@lakeopinesrv.com, or online https://lakeopinesrvpark.com/
Alternative lodging options include: Old Camp Joy 2 miles South https://oldcampjoy.com/ , Bull Frog Marina 12 miles Southeast https://bullfrog-marina.com/ and Scenic View Motel 9 miles North https://scenicviewmarina.com/
Plans include a ±24 mile Saturday morning ride to the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum in Pittsburg, Texas, to see, among other things, the Ezekiel Airship (well, a replica), that the reportedly achieved flight before the Wright brothers.
The RV Park & Inn is across the lake from Buzzard Roost Mountain, and our Saturday ride should pass Couch Mountain & Wilkes Mountain.**
We'll post a more definitive schedule once the plans are finalized.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need any additional information in the meantime.
** Keep in mind, these are East Texas "mountains" 
Lee
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How about New Mexico? It’s just a short trip across Texas.
How about New Mexico? It’s just a short trip across Texas.
Now I'm not so sure about the "short" trip across Texas, but, of course, folks from New Mexico, and other states beyond Ark-La-Okie-Tex, are certainly invited and welcome.
The location is kinda sorta near the corner of the four mentioned states. 
Lee
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An uncertain schedule:
Friday October 11th:
6:30 Dinner on the grounds: Bean soup, sausage, etc., hosted by Lee & Jena & Texas Sidecars
Saturday October 12th:
9:00 Group ride to Pittsburg to visit the Prayer Tower and the NETex Museum with a replica of the Ezekiel Airship - 50 mile round trip.
12:00 Lunch on your own in Pittsburg - Hot Links anyone?
3:15 Games
5:00 Group ride to Dinner at the MIMS Volunteer Fire Department (Potato Bar - by donation) 20 mile round trip.
Lee
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Wish I had known the dates before we bought our plane tickets. Sorry to miss seeing all our friends and fellow riders in TX-LA-OK-AR.
I have all the games equipment from previous years if you need it.
Jan
Sorry for the scheduling conflict, Jan. And thanks for the offer on the game equipment -- we should have a enough bouncy balls, squeaky toys and other stuff to make up a couple of games.
Lee
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The unreliable long-range forecast is favorable -- mostly sunny skies with temps 60°F to 87°F.
We're working on a head-count for the MIMS VFD.
Please let us know if you plan to join us.
Lee
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Aurora and I will be there, from New Mexico.
Y'all in the count George -- looking like maybe 3+ dozen folks.
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Steve Ives
Friday Lunch:
A fried baloney sandwich on cornbread** is too tasty to pass up, so all are invited to meet-up with Jena & I for lunch at Kitt's Kornbread Sandwich & Pie Bar at 125 N. Polk Street in downtown Jefferson, 'bout noonish on Friday October 11th, 2024.
** Or one of Kitt's other fine delicacies: https://www.kittskornbreadsandwich.com/
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Steve
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Hey, this is Lee the SwampFox from Louisiana. I made to two foregoing posted before I realized the 'puter changed my identity. 🙄
Sorry bout that Steve. 🤔
By the way, the SwampFox handle goes back to my childhood CB radio days when we lived in the Harrison/Marion County Texas area. My brother adopted the CB handle Desert Fox and assigned by Dad the handle Papa Fox. Well, I concluded I too needed a handle and, after reading about Francis Marion, the namesake of Marion County, Texas, I adopted the handle of SwampFox.
By the way 2: Jefferson is the county seat of Marion County.
Lee
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I thought that the responses didn't "sound" like Steve. Not sure I could go with the fried bologna, though!
Illegitemi non carborundum est!
Not sure I could go with the fried bologna, though!
Thane, a Fried Bologna sammich' is the City Sandwich of Broken Bow, Nebraska. Look it up, for Pete's Sake.
Ummmmmm, more like a fried "oyster" sandwich. Both of these options would send lesser humans running for cover whilst clutching pearls.
Illegitemi non carborundum est!
Down here in the Deep South, if it's fried -- we eat it. When in school at the Bayou Academy of Law and Agriculture down in Baton Rouge +30 years ago, I'd save up my nickels quarters during the week for a Friday treat, often a fried catfish poboy or fried oyster [gulf, not mountain 🙂] poboy. Often enhanced with a few dashes of Panola Hot Sauce.
And the last time I had an opportunity to explore the USFS roads in the Ouachita Mountains, the fellow that runs the store in Norman, Arkansas, cut a thick slice of baloney --you know, from the bulk roll with the rind on it-- and fried it up for me. Good eats!
Lee
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