STURGIS MOTORCYCLE RALLY 2012

Spearfish, SD, where we're currently volunteering, is only 22 miles away from Sturgis, SD home of the big Motorcycle Rally.  We have noticed the increase in motorcycle traffic in the past week.  The other day I counted 251 bikes on our way home from Wal-Mart, which is only 2 miles from us. The campground across from us is totally sold out.  Tents in places there was never tents before.  They've added picnic tables and porta potties to accomodate everyone  We don't need alarm clocks...the bikes start reeving up around 6am. Several organizations around here have fund raisers providing breakfast from 6-noon. So I'm guessing our biker buddies are off to get breakfast at 6am. Soooooo we decided to cross something else off our bucket list and went to The Rally today. As we were leaving town we noticed quite a few bikers at the Spearfish Perkins Restaurant.  The parking lot was filled almost totally with motorcycles.   We whimped out and went in the morning.  That was a good thing, it was VERY crowded.  We've never seen so many motorcycles in our lives....all in one place.  Everyone was very well behaved....but let's not forget it was 10am.  We did see a woman with red glittered butterflies covering her nipples....no shirt.  She was 50ish  rather daring for a woman that age I thought. We won't call her cute.  There were lots of old guys....lots of tatoos.  In front of one of the Tatoo Shops was a young lady without a top....just artwork.  It was really very nice.  I'm thinking the must put some tape over the nipples before airbrushing her  because it was very smooth looking.  I tried to get Dale to have his picture taken with her but he wasn't going for that.  Honestly she was really cute.  She was making a mint though, she had all sorts of money tucked into the waist of her shorts.  She WAS wearing shorts, by the way. We found a bike we really liked.  It had power steering and a stereo. I think we should call it Bumblebee.  The only problem is it won't fit in our truck or trailer.  We saw a few odd things...like the truck pulling a flatbed with all the important things on it, a popup trailer and 6 motorcycles.  I'm really glad we went.  We had a good time.