Oklahoma Campout

October 31 - November 2, 2008

On Friday I rode from Carrollton (1) to Clayton Lake S.P.,

at Clayton, OK. (2) About 180 miles.

Clayton Lake is a very pretty small lake but the state

park is not up to standards. The restroom was available

but the showers were out-of-service.

Saturday I rode past Sardis Lake to Red Rock Canyon

State Park, Hinton, OK. (3) 50 miles west of Oklahoma city.

241 miles.

This state park is one of the best in Oklahoma.

Everything was spotless.

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I rode home on Sunday, going thru Oklahoma City.

Onboard the Lexington

May 8 - 10, 2008: We celebrated our 15th anniversary and my birthday this year with a ride to Corpus Christi.

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The Texas GWRRA had setup a dinner ride on the USS Lexington.

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We rode onto the deck, had dinner on board and posed for a fly-by photograph.

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There were 500 + Goldwings on the deck.

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The hotel parking lot was filling up with Goldwing Motorcycles.

There were license plates from almost every state and several foreign countries.

We assembled in a parking lot, waiting for the Lexington handlers

to get the tourists off the ship.

They escorted over five hundred motorcycles through the

Corpus Christi streets to get ready to load the ship.

On to the ship's elevator, at the hanger deck level.

It handled 40 two wheelers or 30 trikes at once.

They had to operate the elevator in manual mode.

Automatic was set for the weight of an aircraft and

was way too fast.

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The elevator took us up to the flight deck.

We are fourth from the right.

Directing us to the parking area.

Dinner on the main dining hall.

Aircraft from all the conflict eras were on display. Queued up for departure.

Going down the elevator.