Often, yes. In our case, Maddie is not a service dog and we have a good friend who enjoys having a dog to sit for a few days and she enjoys having a “not-papa papa”.
in 21 we had the first ever indoor bike games at CMA Iron Mountain because it had been raining and our games pitch was soaked. It was epic!
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@thane-lewis Cool 😎 As it turns out, I’ll be in a Golden, CO Airbnb at that time. I can get a “TrustedHousesitters.com” person as well, since Colorado in June is awesome. Thanks for your inputs.
I know it's like herding cats, but any chance of scheduling a time for a group photo of all the folks and their rigs? Just a thought. Thanks to everyone involved in planning the national!
Seems to me we always do get a group picture.
Often in front of an ice cream or pie shop!
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Guess I didn't explain that well enough. We were at the rally in Maine. Yes, there were photos of groups at the ice cream stops. Not all attendees go on the ice cream runs.
The rally was at a fairground with a HUGE empty field. We thought it would be a great photo if as many as possible got together for a group photo, at a scheduled time.
You folks have been at the rally game way longer than John and I, so maybe it just isn't something that others think or care about.
Just my nickel's worth.
Ultimately, given the "independent" ( 
) nature and behavior of sidecar operators, trying to get them all in the same place, at the same time, facing the same direction, with a camera operator is rather like making squirrels get ready for a family portrait...
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Okay, Okay.....I see El Presidente's point, however....Let's Do This !
Not just because MJ asked for it, but because even squirrels need a family photo every generation or two, so they can identify the rascal that has been appropriating all their nuts.
Ergo, and therefore...I second that emotion, and....MJ deserves 3 cents back on her nickel deposit.
Whilst at the 2026 National Sidecar Rally in Mena....MJ and I will take on the duty of herding cats....gathering all the squirrels together...rangling sidecarists and monkeys...so we can get a "family photo" that is worthy of posting in the Sidecarist Magazine.
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Egad! How ever shall you juggle the awesome responsibilities of donut hole procurement AND group photo wrangler!?!
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When you first arrive at the Rally, you receive a packet with your name tag, shirt if you ordered one, pages with seminars, when and where ice cream rides will be, etc. If on the packet front it stated please show up with your sidecar outfit for a group photo and the date, time and location, it would help in getting the photo. Just an idea and of course it could threaten, show up or no donuts.
Egad! How ever shall you juggle the awesome responsibilities of donut hole procurement AND group photo wrangler!?!
Now wait just a Donut Missing Moment....I have not volunteered to bring any Donuts or their corresponding Holes to the 2026 National Sidecar Rally in Mena..... and my lack of volunteering is based on the utter lack of fellow Sidecarist to eat their fair share of Donuts and Holes at the 2025 National Sidecar Rally in Topsham, Maine.
Their inability to perform a simple task of each Sidecarist eating a specified number of Donuts and Holes resulted in me having to consume....as in eat.... copious amounts of Donuts and Holes to the point that I had to waddle out to my Sidecar rig.
So many Donuts and Holes were left uneaten.... that we donated boxes of left over Donuts and Holes to a local Food Bank, via our Rallymaster...Tom Gerken.
Ergo, youse people....yes.....youse people are going to have to find some other sucker....I mean VOLUNTEER to be the lead on Donuts and Holes.
Given that I will be driving/piloting my BattleWing Galactica more than 2,200 miles just to get to the Rally site....at my festering olde age, diminishing mental capacity...etc....I will have enough on my plate just to get there.
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@miles-ladue Yippee! Gives me some time to research cat herding and squirrel wrangling and the application to independent minded sidecar drivers.
Egad! How ever shall you juggle the awesome responsibilities of donut hole procurement AND group photo wrangler!?!
Now wait just a Donut Missing Moment....I have not volunteered to bring any Donuts or their corresponding Holes to the 2026 National Sidecar Rally in Mena..... and my lack of volunteering is based on the utter lack of fellow Sidecarist to eat their fair share of Donuts and Holes at the 2025 National Sidecar Rally in Topsham, Maine.
Their inability to perform a simple task of each Sidecarist eating a specified number of Donuts and Holes resulted in me having to consume....as in eat.... copious amounts of Donuts and Holes to the point that I had to waddle out to my Sidecar rig.
So many Donuts and Holes were left uneaten.... that we donated boxes of left over Donuts and Holes to a local Food Bank, via our Rallymaster...Tom Gerken.
Ergo, youse people....yes.....youse people are going to have to find some other sucker....I mean VOLUNTEER to be the lead on Donuts and Holes.
Given that I will be driving/piloting my BattleWing Galactica more than 2,200 miles just to get to the Rally site....at my festering olde age, diminishing mental capacity...etc....I will have enough on my plate just to get there.
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