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At least you caught my best side, the top of my helmet! 
I have a better one of you that I will send to you, but it will have to wait until I can crop it since the other half of it has JCBullen in a full YAWN. 
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Guys I had a blast!! What fun it was riding down those perfect roads in Arkansas.The weather going back to Oklahoma was great, we followed Dan most of the way then headed west down 412. Was great to meet everyone and hopefully next year we can do this all over again! 
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Made it home in time to see the second half of the Chargers-Saints game in the UK. I missed the turnoff to HWY 7 and got stuck behind a bunch of campers almost the whole way back on 65. The temps going back were perfect for riding, though, so I guess complaints are just silliness. Can't say that for this morning, though. Cooooold!! What a beautiful weekend it was riding with a great bunch of guys on the twisty, turny byroads of NW Arkansas in the fall. If we ever stop again at the restaurant in Jasper, can some PLEASE remind me NOT to order anything with the chili on it? Antone who wasn't there should seriously start considering making it next year. It really was a hoot! Paul (PES) - AKA "Dog Magnet", THANKS for all the efforts you put into planning this and for making it a success! Fast Eddy - Thanks to you for your contributions for the door prizes!  Dwight - You were talked about numerous times... (All in glowing terms, of course.)  Great meeting everyone, and I'm looking forward to doing this again next year - "Lord willing and if the creek don't rise." 
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Fast Eddy - Thanks to you for your contributions for the door prizes!
+1! Thanks a bunch, eddy!!
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Fast Eddy - Thanks to you for your contributions for the door prizes!
+1! Thanks a bunch, eddy!!
+2 Thanks eddy, JCBullen, and roadworthy for the 'no doors' prizes and thank PES and Donny for organizing and leading the dash through the Ozarks. For those who weren't there.. those of us in the back of the pack did not carbon up our plugs putt putting along those nice crooked roads!
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Hats off to Paul and Donny for a very well planned event. It will be tough topping it next year, which I'm already looking forward to. I also would like to thank Eddy, John, and Dave for the "no door" prizes. Nice meeting and riding with you all.
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I'm glad everyone had a great time. Maybe more folks can join us next year. I am thinking of changing my site name to "Mad Dog" since I almost wiped out 2 dogs. Does anyone in rural AR keep their dogs put up? Now excuse me while I write out a check for blowing through a stop sign in Noel Mo. pop. 1452. $107.50... ouch.  That was one ugly lady cop. Maybe I should have offered to buy her dinner to get out of the ticket 
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In an earlier post, I warned about deer, perhaps I should have included dogs.
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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...Dwight - You were talked about numerous times... (All in glowing terms, of course.)
Hey JB!!! I think you might be confusin' the term "glowing" with the term "GlowERing" there, dude!
THIS is "glowering"--->  ...and I'll betcha anything if MY NAME came up in conversation anytime at Paul's Rally, THAT was most likely the reaction among the attendees there, RIGHT???!!! 
(and BTW Paul, good on ya for starting that rally!...here's to many more...)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Nope, Dwight, I meant G-L-O-W-I-N-G. In CAPITAL letters, just to make it sound "Dwightish." 
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Home safe after 7 days of riding. Thanks to PES and Donny and all for settng it up. Great meeting everyone and seeing the beautiful Ozarks.
Thom
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Home yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon. Wow. I surfed a cold front the whole way home. After splitting from you Tom, I headed SouthEast to the Smoky Mountains. Stayed well East of Nashville on Sunday night, Cookeville, TN actually about a 100 miles West of Knoxville. I rolled a wee bit faster after 412 split from 62.  Star Motel. American owned and real nice place. $28.00 plus tax. 31 bucks. dang. Saddle up Monday morning and it is like 41 degrees. maybe. had to stay off the slabs due to wind chill. Rolled 30 miles or so on 70 into Crossville TN where I stopped to ask for directions to TN rt 68. A guy behind the counter says " you have more inkling than I" Seems that he and his wife ride. We talked, I thawed out and after a Virginia ham biscuit and a fillet biscuit and some java, I suited up and rode 68 to 411 to the dragon. Rode the Dragon. Then rolled 28 into the Highlands of North Carolina. Bridal Falls and all. Headed to Dilliard then rode GA 17 to Washington GA. An elderly black woman and I guess her middle aged son looks at me and ask, "Boy how longer you gonna be in the wind tonight?" Man i was touched. here these two folks said in one sentence what we all could talk for days about. Anyways the guy says it is going to freeze tonight. I said to Wren or Vidalia or at least to I-16 and head to Savannah. Watch out for them 4 leggers... I rolled to 16 then west to Savannah, pooler actually. Had to run in front of the artic air mass. I would say I have never been so cold but as it was my hands only I can't say that. Never got a shiver till I left That enchanted city of Savannah Tuesday Morning. ... Back to the Rally... Great Rally! Most excellent. I wish we had two days of riding. Of all the Rallies the Saturday AR 08 ride was the bestest yet. gosh. Great pace roads that inspired me to ride with Tom across the northern AR border. I hate the Ozarks.   Gotta save the words for a ride report. P.S.: Every time i roll with Cinnamon Girl, she tosses something. This trip is was her right pipes heat shield. And rolling south from Savannah, the speedo.    
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Those some big critters in them thar hills
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Kent, that bar I ate lunch at was Johnny Mac's Rockin Rooster at 5855 hwy 22 west in Paris. $5.13 for a cup of java, a bbq pork sandwich, and a bag of chips.
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Ride stats: 7 days 3074 miles Total cost $645.18 Credit Card total 515.18: Fuel 182.79 Lodgings 120.86 Meals 75.04 Booze 69.08 sundry 67.41 Cash spent $130 What it was worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000.00
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Kent, that bar I ate lunch at was Johnny Mac's Rockin Rooster at 5855 hwy 22 west
in Paris. $5.13 for a cup of java, a bbq pork sandwich, and a bag of chips.
Ah, Paris! Ala John Prine and Iris Dement...
By a fountain back in Rome I
fell in love with you
In a small cafe in Athens You
said you loved me too
And it was April in Paris
when I first held you
close to me
Rome, Georgia, Athens, Texas
And Paris, Tennessee
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Paris Arkansas...off of 22 just north of Mt. Magazine.
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Total cost $645.18
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Credit Card total 515.18:
Fuel 182.79
Lodgings 120.86
Meals 75.04
Booze 69.08
sundry 67.41
Cash spent $130
must be that new math....
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Great pictures Moe! I was so suprised and delighted to see you there. You never let on that you were coming but I should have picked up on a few hints. I'm glad you kept ahead of the cold front and made it safely home. Funny you should mention two days of riding. I was thinking for next year we could start the rally on a Thursday and break Sunday, so we could ride Friday and Sat. Also today I heard about a place to stay near Eureka, run by the Episcopalian church that provides lodging for just a donation. A friend of mine and her husband stayed a night and donated $20. She said it was really nice also. I will get more information. Dwight, that picture of Moe's with the large animal was actually one of the dogs I almost hit. 
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Dwight, that picture of Moe's with the large animal was actually one of the dogs I almost hit.
Let me guess he just popped out from behind a tree right, and you didnt see him till the last minute
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Kent, that bar I ate lunch at was Johnny Mac's Rockin Rooster at 5855 hwy 22 west
in Paris. $5.13 for a cup of java, a bbq pork sandwich, and a bag of chips.
Moe, The wife and I need to go try this place real soon, 5 bucks to eat good food is cheap. Drove by it this evening on my way home from work and I thought about how you said you stopped there on the way to the rally.
Thank you and Thom for the great pics you two posted.
Glad y'all made it home safe!
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Credit Card total 515.18:
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Lodgings 120.86
Meals 75.04
Booze 69.08
sundry 67.41
Cash spent $130
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must be that new math....
Stewart, the math is right, the cash is miscellaneous expenses and not broken down. Moe, must have looked at his credit card statement online. I guess that's how he knew the exact name and address of the bar here in Paris.
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Dang, I cut off the first 2 lines! I just thought it was one cheap 7 day trip!
Glad to hear everyone had a good trip.
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Thursday 3PM on AR23  Thursday night rain on Friday morning asphault.  (  )  The Crescent Hotel from afar.  Beaver Dam, on the White River in AR just outside Eureka Springs.  and fer deewight 
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Nice Moe. You ought to be a professional photographer. 
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Moe good picture of the Cresent Hotel, check out the history of the hotel. It's got ghost, I believe. I'm going back up their this week-end to check on those heated clothes, we never got around to see. And no I didn't go check on that scrambler at Clarksvill. I bought a Track-hoe to replace the back-hoe that burned up. My wife said no more toy's for a whild, but she did book another cruise for us in 2 week's. And I'm takeing her to OK. tomorrow to the slate's so I( may being going to Clarksvill in a week or two, to see that Triumph that might still be their.Rudy
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If anyone else has some good pics from the rally, can you post them here or e-mail them to me?
Thanks,
Dave
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