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Montana Meetup Video Is Online
Sorry it’s taken so long to put this together, but I finally have completed the slideshow video for the Montana Meetup we held a few weeks ago. Besides the usual still photos, I’ve included some snippets of video that @6foot2inhighheels captured, from one of the parties, from the recording of Ricochet Silent Radio: Who Killed Invisible Television, and from Flyover Country — Wives Edition. For the background music I had to include at least one Don Williams song, since he died during the meetup.
If you haven’t read the official post-meetup report, @rushbabe49 has written it in three parts.
I better also put up a link to the post by @garymcvey where you can listen to the first audio version of Ricochet Silent Radio.
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The Black Hills? Do tell!
Although the Black Hills aren’t as majestic as the Rocky Mountains, there is some interesting and scenic terrain in the area. There are cave tours, waterfalls, Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial sculpture, Needles Highway, mammoth fossils, just a lot of cool stuff to see. Calvin Coolidge used the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park as his “Summer White House.” Whether we would want to have the meetup in or near Rapid City or down by Custer or wherever, I don’t know. But someplace that has a large cabin for rent as well as nearby motel rooms would be good.
For timing, my personal preference would be to do it Labor Day Weekend, because that’s when the Sturgis Mustang Rally takes place every year. Others may prefer doing it in late September so they can watch the annual buffalo roundup in Custer State Park. People with children may want to do it earlier than September, so they can bring the kids and not miss school.
Just so you’re aware: you will need to book at least a year in advance for a place to stay around there. My parents went to and from Montana right before/during Sturgis weekend 2015 and they had to drive 3 hours north of I-90 to find a place to stay for the night on the way up, and all the way into central Iowa on the way down. Every town along I-90 books FAST and traffic is pretty intense.
I wonder if that wasn’t the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally? That is enormous, typically bringing in over 400,000 people, sometimes over half a million. The Sturgis Mustang Rally is not nearly that big. It probably brings in thousands of people but not tens of thousands. Do you know the dates they drove through there? The motorcycle rally is usually in early August, I think. The Mustang rally is always Labor Day Weekend.
I’m not locked in on the timing of the meetup. I think being able to take one day or a few hours to go to the Sturgis Mustang Rally would be cool, as there are a few Mustang owners (@6foot2inhighheels, @1967mustangman, @blondie) besides myself who like going to Ricochet meetups. And there are other people who aren’t Mustang owners who still might find it interesting. But as I pointed out in #32, there are good reasons to choose other dates as well.
Just off season (which Labor Day is not) is best, in my opinion.
I still think Phoenix, or Tucson, or Palm Springs in July or August — since most folks just want to talk, eat and drink!
Ohhhh! Yep! You’re right! I’m talking about the motorcycle rally, which usually happens the first week of August.