Lone Star Rally

Any Texans going to this?

http://www.galveston.com/bikerally/

BTW AFNurse..what kind of classes are you taking? I'm just starting in the nursing portion of my degree at UNLV this semester..nutrition. Starting next semester it's all nursing classes.

I've got to see how busy I am, too, that weekend, but think I should be able to make a day trip Saturday out of it. It's only about 2 hours up the coast by way of Surfside/blue water highway and the toll bridge.

Anyhow, AFNurse, if you can get to ride, contact me. You could ride down here Friday or something. It's about a 3 hour ride from your house to mine. We could ride up Saturday morning early to the rally. I doubt there'll be any affordable lodging on the island. Might have tent space at the state park out on west beach, don't know. I figured on just making a day trip of it. Could contact cousins in Angleton about staying over I guess, but it'd be just about as easy to ride back here. Angleton's a little closer, though. Might just take a little camping gear and see if we can get space in the park. If they won't even let us tent, we can at least get day passes at the park and tent on the beach down the road. Beach camping sux, though, all that gritty sand. Yuk.

I know my way around Galveston, though, so it should be a good time. They have quite a few events scheduled that sound neat.

Uh, which one. ROFLMAO! Perhaps you should look for me. I'll be likely the only idiot on an SV650S Suzuki. I might get the Wing repaired before then, but I ain't gonna hold my breath on that, LOL! Still haven't ordered the top end gasket kit I need to put it back together. Friggin' head gasket on the left side gave out on me a few weeks ago and started blowing water out of the radiator. Water was disappearing and there were no leaks anywhere.

It'll have a Ventura a rack/pack on the back (hey, that rhymes) and a Zero Gravity dark tint double bubble" wind screen, but this is the bike. If AFNurse is with me, I'll be the SV with the EG Standard black Harley bagger riding with me. Probably won't miss THAT, LOL.

Yep, that woulda been me at the Harley drags.

I grew up in Jones Creek, which is between Freeport and Brazoria. I spent some time now and again in Galveston as a youth. They finally built the toll bridge over San Louis Pass, which helped.

I went to school there at the Fort Crocket campus of Texas A&M University back in the summer of 1974. I was taking marine fisheries classes there, required of a fisheries management major. I spent some time in the strip clubs after hours. Galveston has a lot to do for touristas even without a rally. It's a cool and relatively little known, for some reason, vacation spot.

Thanks..I'm looking forward to graduating hopefully in less than 2 years. Go for the Masters..you can be a Practitioner when you get out..as close to a doctor without the hassles or worries of malpractice. My teacher for my Nutrition class is a retired AF nurse officer. She's pretty sharp, and attractive too. She recently moved here from Tucson to teach at UNLV. I'm more stoked about this than I ever was about computer science 20 years ago. I do wonder how much the BS in computer science will help in nursing..hmmmm.

Any way..good luck on your class. We're discussing prenatal and infant nutrition right now.

No, I'm trained as a biologist, but never worked in the field other than for the Seadrift lab one summer and doing EPA abatement, water quality work for the plant here. I was doing environmental lab work for them. I've interviewed for a few fisheries tech/biologist jobs with TP&W, but the pay was pretty dismal. I got into it as a idealistic kid and after I figured out I'd have to make a living with it some day, started taking lots of chemistry electives so I could survive in the real world. That, at least, did pay off.

I'm semi retired, no longer do plant work, and wrench tractors, bikes, lawnmowers, whatever now for spending money. I set my own hours. It's a lot more freedom than when I had a job. In ten years, I look forward to putting the wrenches up, except for my own stuff, and just chillin'.