Unfortunately, I can’t go in the hot tub. There are severe thunderstorms with hail on the way. Coming back from Medora was terrible. The wind gusts were about 30 mph.
Today, Defconw, Cibco, Meyer, AZLiberty, and I had the Q thread meet-up at a somewhat upscale biker bar in Sturgis. We all had a good time and got along well.
We didn’t spend much time discussing Q, as we talked about our life histories, travel plans, and birds. We also had to leave time for people to get some sight-seeing in.
We all agreed we’d like to do this again and that Branson, Missouri, which was the runner-up in our voting last year, was a good location for next year.
Hoping more people can come. Branson is a lot closer for many people, especially all the Q thread people from Ohio, which might be the biggest state in terms of thread participants. And it is closer for people in other states, such as Florida and Texas.
I realize a lot of people couldn’t make it this year, not only due to distance, but also to the general state of affairs in the world. There are many things going on that we weren’t expecting when we first started discussing the meet-up idea.
It was so funny that you went to Medora. A friend of mine is a good friend of the Walton family member who is heading up the funding of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library there. My friend told me that I HAD to go to Medora to see it, even though the library itself hasn’t been built. I told her that an eight-hour round trip was out of the question, even if I had rented a car.
Was it worth the visit?