Any interest in a Region 2 Meet and Eat?

[rocketbunny]

Hopefully sometime this spring before it gets too freakin' hot.

I'm thinking a Saturday night dinner because a lot of us will have some serious miles to cover. A 3-day weekend styled after the Region 1 meet might work too if there's an area with good riding.

Perhaps in West Texas or extreme east New Mexico? Suggestions anyone? El Paso? Lubbock-ish? March? April?

[1TallTXn]

Sounds like fun to Me!

[bikerider]

I am game depending on when/where it is. Vacation is at a premium for me this year. I would like it be ride there Saturday, ride home Sunday if possible.

[Sock Puppet]

I might be game for something.

[QuienSabe]

I'll be in West Texas or on my way there the weekend of 4/8-4/9. These regions are too darn big.  

[REDDY]

   Just to be different.... Up the west side and across the northern part of Arkansas. No straight roads and lots of scenery.

[soonerstan56]

Sounds good.
If the work schedule allows I'm in.
I am in central Ok., so a Saturday evening meal would work best for me.

Soonerstan

[eazzrider]

I am a definate maybe. Sounds fun, I'm in northern OK.

[GilaMonster]

Hopefully sometime this spring before it gets too freakin' hot.

I'm thinking a Saturday night dinner because a lot of us will have some serious miles to cover. A 3-day weekend styled after the Region 1 meet might work too if there's an area with good riding.

Perhaps in West Texas or extreme east New Mexico? Suggestions anyone? El Paso? Lubbock-ish? March? April?

Alamogordo, NM?  There's some great riding up in Cloudcroft (mountains near Alamogordo) for those that want to stay over.  March or April would work.

[QuienSabe]

My trip to Big Bend will take me through the Alamagordo/Cloudcroft area on the weekend of 4/7, 4/8. Although I had not yet inked it in as weather can still be rugged there at that time of year.

Jim

[dangle]

Don't we have enough Texans in New Mexico already?      Just jokin.......

[Fred]

I'm interested.

Geographically speaking, I think Ruidoso-Cloudcroft or Alpine-Ft Davis would be an excellent choices. Either area is more centrally located for our Region than the excellent roads in Missouri, Arkansas, or the Texas Hill Country. Well...., Lubbock is pretty central too, but all the roads around there are straight, and all the curves are 90 degrees!

  Set a date and a place, and stand-by for the whining.

Fred
Oklahoma City

[QuienSabe]

I definitely agree that a Region 2 meet and greet should fall withing Region 2 boundaries, which does not include Arkansas.

I belong to a riding group at Phoenix Motorcylce Riders Group. Our group is planning a meetup with the Austin group for somewhere in New Mexico this spring. Might be worthwhile considering combining. Austin Motorcylce Riders Group.

[Joggernot]

I live in NM and ride to Cloudcroft, Ruidoso, and many other places in the mountains, and there are some great roads to ride.  Red River also has some excellent roads to ride.  Silver City, NM is another good area to ride.   :thumbsup:My personal choice is Cloudcroft, Ruidoso, and parts north.  Lots of rooms in Ruidoso for a price (casinos in the area).  Quite a few in Cloudcroft and outlying areas.  I don't remember any tent camping , but there are several RV locations.

http://www.cloudcroft.com/ is the main site.
www.cloudcroftnm.com shows some accomodations.

Joggernot

[Tejasbusa]

Set the date and place and they will come.  

Best for working stiffs would be a Saturday evening meal near a good campground and hotel (for the woosies).

You name the place and I will do my best to be there.  May even get some of the guys from my work from California to come out.

[TEXXAS]

I'm in. lets take time and organize a good 2 day "Meet and Greet". If it goes well, it could become an annual thing!  

[rgatling]

Great idea.  I'm in for something in the April timeframe.  Cloudcroft sounds good to me, but I'll go where you decide.

[bluedogok]

A possible location could be The Meers Store in Meers, Oklahoma in Southwest Oklahoma on the north side of Lawton. The longhorn burgers there are great.

[jay547]

A possible location could be The Meers Store in Meers, Oklahoma in Southwest Oklahoma on the north side of Lawton. The longhorn burgers there are great.

i've read about those burgers in newspapers and magazines. i'd like to try one.

[rocketbunny]

Hmm -

Meers, OK is just too central to Texas/OK. I'd be worried that we wouldn't get any of the NM/AZ people.

Cloudcroft looks like a good location. It's about 600 miles from Houston and roughly the same from Phoenix. How about Saturday April 7 for the *official* dinner. This gives people the opportunity to just come in for dinner or make a 3-day weekend of it.

Can someone local to the area suggest a good hotel to designate for the group? I'm happy to call and block some rooms, but I just don't know the area at all.

How about a good restaurant that can handle a group for dinner? Preferably something very local, and yummy.

I'll change the main post once we get these details figured out.

// sidenote: I hadn't realized that there was a NM riding area at roughly the same distance away from me as Eureka Springs.... hmmmmm