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2007 Sturgis and the decision to make plans to go no where.

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In 2007 we organized a ride to Sturgis, South Dakota. Kevin, Brad, Jim and Bill (pictured left to right) started at points from Virginia to California and rode into Sturgis together. Bill started in Illinois and ended up riding to where the corners of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah met at the Four Corners Monument before finding his way north to Utah where he met up with Brad and Kevin. We camped out on the hard, hot, alfalfa hillside at the Buffalo Chip Camp Ground. We attended the concerts each night and woke early enough to enjoy breakfast and go on some awesome daily rides before the summer sun baked the streets and the majority of the other rally-goers woke. We enjoyed riding to Deadwood, the Black Hills National Forest, Mt Rushmore, Custer, and the Crazy Horse Monument. We had a great time exchanging stories and seeing the Black Hills first hand along with the enormous crowds the Sturgis Rally draws. Near the end of the rally the four of us split up and headed