This will be the last Cache Gathering.
It's very sad to see this day come, but it was inevitable. Most of the 'regular' attendees seem to be giving up riding. Old age or health problems seem to get us all down at least some of the time.
Anyway, this year the Grand Pooh Bah is Len (again...I think this is his third year running the show).
Spearfish or bust this year the gathering is being held at the KOA in Spearfish.
I leave early on a Sunday morning and take i-80 East to expedite getting out of town. This is echo reservoir last year and last several years it was just a mud bog and now it's full to the top!
I make my Way North to Grand Teton national Park where I got the National Park stamp then continued North to Dubois Wyoming where I stay for the night.
And the next day was a windy 400 miles to the KOA in Spearfish where I find the other attendees had already arrived.
Most KOAs are reasonably nice, you know what you're going to get when you stay at a KOA.
But the Spearfish KOA stands out in a positive way, it was so clean and the staff was very friendly, which made it an extra nice place to stay. Another thing is they had an all you can eat for $5 ice cream social hour that was awesome I went twice.
We took some nice rides I didn't take a whole lot of pictures,
Don says he is always being asked 'if he's been to Sturgis'.... I think that is one of the most common questions that motorcyclists get asked. Anyway he wants to take a short ride over to the town of Sturgis so he can answer....."Yes".
and here we go;
Don at the Sturgis museum
And one of the whole group after dinner.
Far right is Chad he trucked his Suzuki 400 from Minnesota and did a couple of days on the backcountry bdr trail. Don, far left, rode from Spokane. Len and his wife Karen came from Las Vegas.
The Cache rally originated from a "motorcycle cache" that was started on the East Coast and brought out West and ended up going all over North south and Central America being carried by several different riders.
The object was, each rider hands the cache to another rider and off it goes on another trip. You hand the cache from rider to rider The purpose other than just an excuse to get out and ride was meet new people and ride with them.
Sadly some riders tended to drop the ball and didn't take it very seriously. Several let the cache sit extended periods of time or even lost the cache. Not everybody enjoyed the cache game, but there are others like myself who really enjoyed the interaction with other riders and carrying the cache around and keep it moving. It has been lost a couple of times and restarted but now it seems many riders have lost interest so we're going to let the cache rally and the Cache die an honorable death.
A week of good times at this year's gathering and then this gathering came to an end. We all bid our goodbyes and go off in different directions.
Two nights later I end up in Lewistown, Montana. Tomorrow I'll go thru Yellowstone, get that stamp and then head for the barn.
I passed this place on the way to Roosevelt NP. I've heard of pet cemeteries but buffalo cemeteries??
(LOL)
Lewistown, Montana
So this is likely the last blog post about the Cache Gathering.
It was fun mostly because of seeing friends every year, and hopefully we can continue to do that.
St George, Utah is up next for a family outing then Arizona to get some more park stamps
Ride safe, thanks for visiting!
¡la vida es buena!
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