MM:

Here is your ride for "Bike Week"!

https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/mcy/d/cleves-for-sale/7431299403.html

Goode company has good food. Yes a bit expensive but good.

I would really like to see you guys sometime this year. If not the Hill Country, what else?

Agreed !     It would be an odd year for us not to gettogether at least once or twice !

Marcia might not be interested in seeing the Hill country this year (been there and done that thing) .    
So , unless she changes her mind then I'm for getting the cabin in Kerrville for a week , and ridding the Savage with leaving the truck at home .  

Last time I did a similar thing it was :
Ride the Natchez trace to the campground on the south end for day one , then on to Kerrville for day two.
But it could be ride to Houston for day two and on to Kerrville on day three ?  
Retirement is good !

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I went to Bike week in 2014 but couldn't get anybody to ride there with ... but went anyway.    The Campground where they have the swap meets and the bike shows is the place to stay .   They have a week long camping  deal too .  Last time I only stayed for  three days but after thinking about it for after few years ... I think "day ridding" out of  the campground would have been a good plan .   I met a few nice guys at the campground but it would be more fun to go with a friend or two or three .  Maybe next year ?  

I would like to try for the hill country again this year.

So Versey , have you gone the way of retirement full time ?  

I'm sorry your having a ruff time with the "Job-Hunt".    Your one of the smartest guys I know , so if your having a difficult time with it then I'd think a lot of folks would be having a ruff time finding a job.

Here in Tn. there are "Help Wanted" sign up everywhere it seems like ?

Let me know if I should start looking for a place for ya to live ?

It would be great to have a ridding buddy living close by !  

I think I need to make Covid comment....hopefully this won't get this thread moved to the Tall Table.

The Omicron version of Covid is just now hitting the US.  It is highly infections and spreads incredibly easily.  The symptoms are far less severe than the Delta variety - but the infection is irritating and takes a while to go away.  Deb and I got symptoms on January 1st (we stayed home on New Years eve and don't know where we were exposed)....it will likely take 2 weeks for us to lose all the symptoms and be mostly normal again.  The inventor of the mRNA vaccines has stated that the current vaccines and boosters have no affect on Omicron, and he has even stated that those with vaccines are more easily infected with Omicron.  It is anticipated that over the next 6-8 weeks the US will have a surge of the Omicron virus.  My sister lives in northeast Ohio and they were experiencing a surge in November.....in northern Kentucky the surge has just begun.

This new wave may have an affect on our travel plans for the early spring ride.  My wife and I got Covid a week ago and we are currently recovering - so we will be fine to travel as soon as we get negative test results.

For the rest of you - this Omicron variant is something to consider.  The virus is highly contagious and it isn't impressed by your vaccination status.  The mainstream media doesn't seem to be reporting this accurately yet - it is going to spread like crazy over the next couple of months.  Chances are very high that you will get Covid in the next few months.