This Ride had it all

Started off cold and dreary.. Then.. it got a little better with some
partial sunshine, warmed up just a bit.. After we cleared the metro-
plex, we made good time, up to New Boston.. Big Ed and Bjay
met us there and with a lot of cell phone directions, Jerry and the
Morgan Kane rolled in.. After a quick lunch, we finished up the ride
to Mena.. the final destination..

The ride from Mena to the Lodge on Tallamena ridge was great, as
usual and we had a good dinner, with a lot of visiting and catching up.

Friday morning came on us and it was overcast and cold.. The planned
ride for the day was questionable, but the crew ran anyway.. Morgan Kane
and I held back so he could resolve a critical business problem back
home.. With a lot of help with GPS.. cellphone and maps, we finally
caught up with the rest of the gang and what a ride it was..

About 30 miles or so from Ft. Smith.. we ran into some rain.. The traffic
was moving right along, though.. so we plowed through it and commenced
heading south, back to the comfort of our Mena motel..

Saturday morning.. it was time for us to start back to our starting places
and
everyone was reluctant to say the final goodbyes, so we just did the "so
long"
type of things..

Morgan Kane, Jerry, Big Ed, Brian and me headed south to Texarkana, while
Louie and Redshad stayed in Mena.. We made a pretty nice little run down to
the twin cities and broke up there, with Morgan Kane and Jerry headed down
to Houston while Big Ed, Brian and me started on the trip back to DFW.. Bjay
lives in the Texarkana area, so he drank a last cup of coffee with me and
that
was the end of a terrific ride together..

Big Ed pulled out first, then Brian followed him just a few minutes later..
After
our coffee, me and the old Green One hit the highway .. Although I didn't
see
either Big Ed or Brian, the trip back to Dallas was kind of a leisurely ride
thru
memory lane for me.. I ran the old highway 67 from Redwater to Mt.Pleasant..
Jeez.. that old highway is always a pleasure for me to ride.. There's just
so
much of my history that is connected to various places on that highway..

Pulled off at the rest stop near Mt. Vernon and got a drink of water..
smoked
a cigarette and visited with several fellow travellors..

Rolled into LaCasa about two o'clock, covered up that Green Vulcan and
made all my reports to the Mexican, while she made me some of the best
enchaladas I'd eaten in a long time..

It was one good trip, all told.. even with the spats of bad weather we'd run
into.. Nothing severe enough to interfere with the good riding, good fellow-
ship and the company of those fine friends..

We'll get 'er done again, real soon.. I hope..

Bill Walker
Irving

 

Bill Walker buddy, you submitted a great discription of our Mena Ride,
of which we'd been talking about for weeks.

I am working on my version of our Mena ride, with such nice Ladies and
Gents.

B. Jay Kana--
NETexas
03Valk-&-98 Magna
Have a Dandy Day--

 

Well...Wheres it at?? You been home now for 3 days. You should be all
rested up by now and able to type 250 words a minute.

Redshad