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13 Jul 2008, 4:03 pm / Happy
Today was a great day! I met Steven for breakfast, it was so good to see him after so long... he's looking great! Nice and tan, been riding alot. After we ate, we headed to Destination Harley, sponsor for the ride. After the speeches, prayer, etc... we saddled up. The crowd was down from last year when we went... I remember there being several more parking lots full of bikes, and in the end, I heard about 600 showed up. Anyway, we all headed onto the freeway, the line pretty much staying together... slowing, going, catching up.. such is riding in an event that size. Destination did a great job of having the highway dept and state patrol out to block roads. We got to Ft. Lewis, turned around and headed back. By then I could feel how hot it had gotten to be, and could feel my face burned. (Hawaiian and Indian, burning??? Go figure.. lol. Musta been Daddy's white half that burned!) We got back to Destination where they had a band, bbq, and gave a bike away to a soldier who's home for two weeks from Iraq. It was nice. Best part was the folks I ran into. Besides Steven and me, I met Jackson from here, fritznatz4 rode down with CMVA and I saw a few of them I'd met before in Anacortes, and fogrocker, mebstacie and her parents, and a friend Jim, who just got back from a 14 day, 4700+ mile trip. And last but not least, lil_tony, who's heading to Iraq this Fall with his unit... we spoke briefly about him taking Larry the Bikerworlds bear! Tony said it would be a kick to see Larry peeking out the turret of a hummer. Hot, hot day, wonderful friends and now I think I'll take a nap. 
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