RickkciR

You ever buy a vehicle, drive it home, and suddenly notice a few of them on the road?   You start thinking " wait a minute.. I never noticed them before!"  And , most of them are in the same colors of yours?   I'm probably exaggerating a notch, but I've felt that way before.  You weren't aware of them hardly, if at all, until you were in the mix with your own.  Happened to me more than once! Sometimes, it feels the same way with people.   We go about our merry ways in life, worried about ourselves, those closest to us, maybe our inner circle.  But, the world goes on around us, no bumps in the road, no drama.  Just , life as usual. But, when you notice someone's bad habits, flaws, lack of character .... sometimes .... sometimes.. you start to focus on them?  Especially if it's one of your pet peeves.  And if you make the mistake of focusing too much on it, you notice other habits?  Yeah, that's me.  Hell, it h...

I’ve been blessed with living in some awesome places in my lifetime, as well as visiting many.   But, for every place one person loves, another seems to hate? When I was stationed in Panama, as a military member we were sometimes called upon to be a ‘sponsor’ for new arrivals.   I learned something quickly.    When someone got off the plane and asked if the country was nice... safe ….   Well... you name it... the first thing I’d ask them was “how was your last duty station?”   If they had a negative response, I gave them a negative response.   I’d learned quickly that for some people … the glass was always half empty.   So, I played along with their shitty attitudes if they had one.   If they liked their last duty station, I told them they’d love Panama and gave them more reasons than they could have imagined.   Your glass is either half empty or half full? Folks sometimes ask me where I was born.   I tell them the ...

What is a Rally anyways?   I mean we’ve all gotten used to the Big Ones …. You know... Sturgis … Daytona Beach … but … when I hear “RALLY” or “BIKE WEEK”... I think of big events.    Obviously, they all aren’t.   This is probably a good overall definition: “ A motorcycle rally is a gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts. Rallies can be large or small, and one-time or recurring. Some rallies are ride-in events, whereas some like the Iron Butt Rally involve days of riding and an actual gathering only at the end of the ride.”   For me, I think of them as open events, open to all, to promote a brand or cause, or maybe just an event established for the sole purpose of bringing folks on bikes together.    Some remain small, some have grown huge.    Bikes Blues and BBQ is probably a good example of the latter.   In just over a decade, it’s grown into one of the largest in the country, family oriented (no crazy adult antics), a...