East Texas 450 (500 + actually) October 2015
WOW - October's almost on us, another year shot in the butt but, despite some disappointments an extraordinarily good one. And it ain't over by a long shot
I'd be good to go the wknd after I get back from Baja Rally 3.0 and that looks to be the 6th or 7th assuming I don't kill myself off chasing the race or riding in the
(rocky!) hills above the border along Old Hwy80 after the rally OR that surgery I'm trying to have done, like, NOW (next week, so I have 5wks recovery time before heading for Baja) is foiled by the Medical Mafia and I can't get it done until afterward (BOO!).
If it has to be October, I'm out. Don't think my old' bod can recover from two operations well enough to wrestle a bike within 2wks and RTB-6 is the last wknd on Oct so that's out. I'm to get the results of the Ultrasound and other tests Monday (tomorrow) and will know more then but I think I'll be shopping for a surgeon who is READY to go to work. Details available at the first available bonfire.
Now ... September:
Dependent on the test results and my ability to find a specialized surgeon who's twiddling his thumbs, September may or may not be possible except for 10th-13th (or maybe 14th - 29th Annual Memorial Rally, been ging since #7 in '93) and 19th-23rd will be final preps and loadout for Baja Rally 3.0, Heading West on the 24th, not back until prob'ly Oct 6th, but could be the 7th.
Not many definitely availables, but there are some maybe dates.
If I am incapacitated for riding (like recovering from being whacked on or banged up from falling off a big rock above Jacumba Hot Springs, or in Baja), but otherwise mobile, I'll set up a couple of cameras at the KOA to get videos of the Northern bunch leaving (and maybe the Southern cadre coming in, or leaving the next morning. I found out last year that snapshots are too hard with riders anxious to peel out and get to the dirt, and that the pocket camera was the wrong weapon.
Of course, I'd rather be riding.