I live in Cleveland Texas.I am not sure where rockwall is by I will google map it.
Sorry to hear you have had such bad experiences. This is an American legion event. They tend to have pretty good controll of events however. No pressure from me live and ride free.
That would be cool to get together over some lunch or what have you. Weekends are better for me because I work a day job during the week. A weekend respit from the Holidays may be inorder.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe