SpyderLovers Banner Run!

[jeuchler]

OK, Barb and I are the first ones home, everybody else had another state to drive (NY, CT, NH).

We had a late start due to black ice, and once we got going, our friend on his Bandit had to turn around when we hit unplowed snowy roads.

Banner is safely (?) in Salem, NH with tatt2r on it's way to Maine and then back to us in Eastern Massachusetts, then to Niagara Falls, downtown Canada.

There was a solemn vow (on a stack of toenail windshields) by a certain person that that person would absolutely not use Photoshop on any of the pics he took.

So while you wait for all the other stories and photos (I think there were fourteen of us plus one doggy), here's a taste:

(1) Barb, on top of Hogback mountain (2,3) The parking lot, after Royal Diner food (4) Ev & Patti's slot car! (5) tatt2r and RoadDog taking photos of who knows what

 

[jeuchler]

More pics, while you wait for the others to get home and upload theirs:

(1) We wander aimlessly after a hearty lunch (2) Most of us: vtrider, Smylinacha, HDXBones, Ev, Patti, Spyderbyter, Dee, Barb, Mike3069 (3) The Passing of the Sacred Scroll!

I have to say, I haven't laughed so loud and so hard and so often in a real long time. Thanks, everybody, we had a great visit with you all!

tatt2r and I should exchange the banner again this week, which'll mean it will have traveled through just about all New England + New York

 

[DynamoBT]

We're home too. It was great meeting everyone!! Now to get to work on actually getting one of these things.

 

[tatt2r]

More pics, while you wait for the others to get home and upload theirs:

(1) We wander aimlessly after a hearty lunch (2) Most of us: vtrider, Smylinacha, HDXBones, Ev, Patti, Spyderbyter, Dee, Barb, Mike3069 (3) The Passing of the Sacred Scroll!

I have to say, I haven't laughed so loud and so hard and so often in a real long time. Thanks, everybody, we had a great visit with you all!

tatt2r and I should exchange the banner again this week, which'll mean it will have traveled through just about all New England + New York

we made it too brother nice meeting you ...see you next week .... sitting in my shop dee's legs are cold i'm going to dump my coffee on her now...

 

[jeuchler]

we made it too brother nice meeting you ...see you next week .... sitting in my shop dee's legs are cold i'm going to dump my coffee on her now...

I feel terrible.

I brought a whole box of Swiffers with us and I forgot to give them to Smylinacha and HDX to clean their bikes...

 

[tatt2r]

vt

 

[tatt2r]

more

 

[Magic Man]

Patti and I made it home OK in the "slot car" LOL.

We had a GREAT TIME with everyone today! It was really nice to finally meet people from Spyderlovers face to face. :yes:

I hope everybody had a safe and fun ride home.

Maybe when the weather is warmer we can have a Spyderlovers meet someplace this summer and get everybody from Spyderlovers there. :dontknow:

Thanks for a fun day! :thumbup:

MM

 

[dltang]

That looked like a great meet, can't wait to get the banner in Niagara Falls, I hope we have a good group for that one too. I am pretty sure Father Leo and his wife are driving up on Sat. to meet and sign the banner.

 

[bjt]

Can somebody put some SpyderLover handles or real names with a few of those faces? I recognize some but not all.

 

[Lamonster]

Can somebody put some SpyderLover handles or real names with a few of those faces? I recognize some but not all.

:agree::2thumbs::doorag:

 

[tatt2r]

:agree::2thumbs::doorag:

well u can guess which one i am the girl to the left of me is my girl dee ....

 

[Lamonster]

well u can guess which one i am the girl to the left of me is my girl dee ....

What I want to know is how all those ugly guys got such good looking gals. :dontknow::bowdown:

 

[DynamoBT]

Hubby, Ron, and I are not in the banner pictures. We had a dog at home. Had to cut things short at the end to get on the road.

I've got mega short hair and I'm wearing a cranberry fleese jacket. Ron is mostly bald w/white hair remaining, glasses wearing a tan jacket.

Again, it was really good to put names to faces and meet up with you all.

 

[Director]

OK, Barb and I are the first ones home, everybody else had another state to drive (NY, CT, NH).

We had a late start due to black ice, and once we got going, our friend on his Bandit had to turn around when we hit unplowed snowy roads.

Banner is safely (?) in Salem, NH with tatt2r on it's way to Maine and then back to us in Eastern Massachusetts, then to Niagara Falls, downtown Canada.

There was a solemn vow (on a stack of toenail windshields) by a certain person that that person would absolutely not use Photoshop on any of the pics he took.

So while you wait for all the other stories and photos (I think there were fourteen of us plus one doggy), here's a taste:

(1) Barb, on top of Hogback mountain (2,3) The parking lot, after Royal Diner food (4) Ev & Patti's slot car! (5) tatt2r and RoadDog taking photos of who knows what

Black ice? Unplowed snowy roads? :yikes: John, you folks are all true Road Warriors! My hat's off to y'all! :thumbup:

Bruce

 

[tatt2r]

What I want to know is how all those ugly guys got such good looking gals. :dontknow::bowdown:

Money

 

[jeuchler]

Black ice? Unplowed snowy roads? :yikes: John, you folks are all true Road Warriors! My hat's off to y'all! :thumbup:

Bruce

Nah.

We drove the shortest distance, we just went through the most weather unfriendly to bikes. Nothing compared to Ontario-typical weather, I'm sure, Bruce!

(When we hit the snow, Barb calmly kept smacking the side of my helmet.
When I turned around and yelled, "WHAT?" she just said, "You're crazy."

I think I greeted RoadDog first when we got to Brattleboro. He said "Tatt2r has an idea for rerouting the banner this week." I said, "What? We FedEx the darn thing to Los Angeles?!"

At that moment I was a bit cold, hungry, and one of my ears were ringing as if my helmet had been repeatedly smacked...but I got ungrumpy fast when we met everybody and the sun came out and we ate good food. :thumbup:

 

[jeuchler]

Hubby, Ron, and I are not in the banner pictures. We had a dog at home. Had to cut things short at the end to get on the road.

I've got mega short hair and I'm wearing a cranberry fleese jacket. Ron is mostly bald w/white hair remaining, glasses wearing a tan jacket.

Again, it was really good to put names to faces and meet up with you all.

Are you sure your puppy wasn't there?!

So that's Dee, Marilyn--DynamoBT--, and Ron from left to right. OK, bjt?!

 

[jeuchler]

WHO'S WHO BEHIND THE BANNER!

:agree::2thumbs::doorag:

Geez. OK...I think, from left to right:

vtrider, RoadDog, Smylinacha, HDXBONES (rear), MagicMan, Patti (below), SpyderByter, Dee, Barb,Tatt2r, jeuchler, Mike3069.

Actually, this one was taken by another patron at the diner, right tatt2r?

(And, Lamont, not that I ever pay attention to detail, but you missed a state with the banner route: This is the real path it has taken so far.)

 

[tatt2r]

Geez. OK...I think, from left to right:

vtrider, RoadDog, Smylinacha, HDXBONES (rear), MagicMan, Patti (below), SpyderByter, Dee, Barb,Tatt2r, jeuchler, Mike3069.

Actually, this one was taken by another patron at the diner, right tatt2r?

(And, Lamont, not that I ever pay attention to detail, but you missed a state with the banner route so far: This is the real path it has taken so far.)

no i took it i'm just very fast on my feet:joke: