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Day seven: Rounded up the troops and went to Paducah to meet Barry at his home. You guessed it, yet another beauty! We met his wife, hit the head and then hit the road! We toured Paducah and set off to the KY Dam and met up with Jerry. So it was me, Ken, Don, Travis, Terry, Barry and Jerry hitting the road across KY! What a scene. We were stretched out pretty good while moving along. And like Travis said, I had to screech into one last BBQ joint while there! Then off to Lexington where you already know what happened to Barry. Kinda revised our plans for the rest of the day. But like the CVO Brothers that we are, didn’t even have to think about taking care of business for Barry. Travis was behind him and saw everything. Ken and Don were already around the ramp and were already on the road. I stopped at the top of the ramp and waited to make sure they got off. All of a sudden I see Travis waving his arms to me. I immediately pulled a “U”ie and headed back down the ramp against traffic. F that, my brother’s down! I called Ken and Don. They stopped when they didn’t see us behind them. I told them what happened and they returned immediately. Luckily Barry was only banged up. He did real well from what I saw and heard. Could’a been worse and we were happy to see him on his feet. We got his bike mobilized again and Don rode it out of the ditch and to a McD’s for pick-up flatbed to Lexington, where we then rode off to meet Barry and his Melon. Dropped the bike at HD there, checked into a Hotel and met for dinner. By the end of the day, at least we were able to joke bout it! Barry’s not hurt and the bike’ll get fixed! That’s all you can hope for in this situation!
Day eight: We slept in a little, checked out and went to HD to check things out and yeah, went to Waffle House for Breakfast! Don left early, so it was just the H/B’s Travis and the Hoist’s left. Barry waited for his brother to pick up him and his bike and we saw him off. Then after my last Waffle House meal, we all hugged and said our See Ya’ Laters! Travis and the H/B’s headed west while the Hoist’s headed east! Well it was almost over. Heading back to NYC always sucks. That means your trip’s almost done. But on I pushed. We left Lexington real late, so I didn’t have time to circle down the bottom of WV and thru the back mountain roads, like I planned. We took the Interstate thru the WV Mountains and it was still beautiful. KY and WV are 2 beautiful states! We rode to Hancock, MD, took a Super 8, and headed out to a nice dinner. We talked all night about what a great trip we had. My wife is totally amazed that we can spend a week with people we only met on a web site, and all act like we’ve always been best friends! I think she’s starting to get it now! You might even get to see her here now if JD has her way! These two have become BSR BFFs for life too!
Day nine: Last leg, short day so we slept in. Weather ominous too! Barely any rain so far. Didn’t do too bad. Rained in NJ and the Bronx. That’s it though. Lucky. Didn’t even put on rain gear. Stopped under a few overpasses though! But I wasn’t going home without seeing 1 more CVO Brother. I planned a gas stop just before NJ in Stroudsburg, PA, just before the Delaware Water Gap and met Puzzled Mike at the gas station. We spent an hour BS’ing and watched a few rainings pass. When the coast was clear, I hit the road. The clear coast didn’t last long. Rain and overpasses on and off in NJ! Finally hit Queens around 6 PM but had to go to our favorite Pizzeria, Amore’, for some great NYC slices and some Chicken Parm! A great end to an unbelievable trip! I could not have asked or planned a better one!
So, I did this in Word, ad I’ll Copy/Paste it in as many posts to fit it all. Might I close with a few last comments. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of youse guys kindness and hospitality! It was a real pleasure meeting each and every one of you! And special thanks for those that shared their homes with us. I can not wait to see you all again! And you all know that you have open invites, anytime you’d like to visit NYC! This damn thing took me 2-1/2 hours to compose. I sincerely hope I didn’t miss anyone. I don’t think so, but my apologies if I did. It’s 4:15 AM and I’m a little burnt out. But I couldn’t go to bed tonight without putting something up on this. I’ll get you my pics of the journey tomorrow!
It’s all of you great folks that make this site what it is! And THIS SITE RULES!!!!! Thanks Neal for making this possible and I’ll get to see more of you in 2 weeks at my house this time for Nige’s visit from England! Hope to see a bunch of you there. I’ll get some hotel info tomorrow for that. We get to do it again!!!
See ya’ll later everyone!!!
Hoist!
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