Now we are at the Rt 66 Biker Rally Campground as other event goers are arriving. The rock star bus is backed up to a large Butler-style building with roll-up garage doors along both sides of the building. Each RV spot has its own door to access the building. I used the darkness of the building to adjust my headlamp one day. As people arrive, they are parking their motorcycles inside the building for shade. Folks begin to set up picnic tables and use the cooler climate of the building to serve meals. Brad and I are invited to lunch with a large group set up on the opposite side of the building. We share some stories and get to know more about our neighbors. There were many folks talking about their experiences at Little Sturgis. Little Sturgis is a bike rally that takes place in July in western Kentucky. Our new neighbors usually attend each July and have a lot of good stories about their experiences there. We might have to add Little Sturgis Rally to our destination list.
The owner of the campground stores classic vehicles inside the garage the RVs are parked near. There are some cool cars and trucks here. While admiring the old vehicles, we discover a WWF-style wrestling rink set up in a room at the end of the building. We learn there will be a wrestling match. Every chair in the room was full the day of the match. Women were cheering on the muscle-bound male wrestlers as they ripped off their shirts when introduced for the match. The energy was high in the makeshift area. I can’t decide which was more entertaining, watching the wrestling match or watching the fan-crazed attendees. Definitely a cool experience.
Brad cooked, don’t tell Krista! Brad decides to get his grill out and cook for our neighbors. Here is a picture because no one believes me that Brad cooked!
We met some new rally friends who set up camp a few sites down from us. Randy & Shannon and Sean & Heather. Randy and Sean make their living in the oil industry. Sean makes money with his wells. Randy makes money keeping well pumps working. They each had a neat story on how they got started in the business. The six of us shared hours of stories while hanging out around camp. We discovered the “Party Bus” together. The Party Bus is an old Chevy school bus painted pink and green. It has the words Party Bus painted on it among other things like free camping, lingerie show, screw cancer, etc. The seats inside the party bus were mostly intact like a traditional school bus. There were two sections where the seats were replaced with bench seats along the sides leaving the floor open. The open floor had dancer poles secured from the floor to the roof. A few passengers lived their dream becoming exotic dance stars as the bus navigated a loop within the campground. It was like a booze bus that picked partiers up around the camp sites and dropped them off at the main stage area. One night after the bands were finished, Brad and I rode the bus continuously along the route maybe three times. It was very entertaining to watch people get on and stumble off the booze bus.
Overall the Rt 66 Biker Rally and Campground was a pretty cool experience. There were groups that have been attending for many years. The property has a pond with a slide where folks would swim, bands were good, the lingerie show was nice, most of all meeting people and hearing their stories were the highlight. The owner carried a wallaby around in a shopping bag while smoking medical marijuana! She was a hoot to listen to!
