Campgrounds Filling, Fake 100's Circulate as Sturgis '09 Begins...
Finally, it's hot. Someone said maybe near 100 today. After a few days of 60's no complaints here. Anything but cold & rain. Drink plenty of H2O, slap on the sunscreen every 2 hours.
ABM free food patrol: Today, Belle Forouche, 10am-2pm, Lead, 10am-2pm, SD Pork Council giving away free pork loin sandwiches, doused in Jack Daniels bbq sauce. All you can eat, no charge. Rumor is they'll be inside the Buffalo Chip soon. Stay tuned for free food details..
Hit it good up in Deadwood, Tin Liz's, was paying out. One bluehair hit the dollar slots so hard took the machine several minutes to cough up her cash. We did good too, about 1400% over our initial investment. Ran out the door w/our winnings. Only the 2nd time ABM has exited a casino with more money than what we brought. Only other time was just across from Death Valley, in Beatty, Nevada. Speaking of money...
Hundred dollar bills are being given a closer look, a half dozen have surfaced during the week gone by. Area merchants tell ABM the bills are a good fake, & that the hologram of ol' Ben Franklin should be held up to a bright light for authentification. Several days ago, a Black Hills motel was held up at gunpoint. Cops still searching for the robbers.
Chuck Berry a no-show at the Buffalo Chip last evening. Sly Stone tribute band filled in, featuring "Cynthia & Jerry", rock n roll hall of famers, and original members, same ones who were at Woodstock. Overheard by Cindy during a mike check.. something about being paid "cash money". Woody's good for the dough...At the Broken Spoke, the bands are free, IF you're camping there. K Headhunters, Foghat, 38 Special, etc. Molly, Jackyl, Korn, over at the Full Throttle. Thought a sign said "free", but the better half is telling me there's a cover chg. You'll need tickets for Korn, fer shure. There's a huge bridge along the western edge of the throttle, which we saw on a two lane northeast of town last August, on a huge trailer. Looked like they were trying to figure out how to get it over to the bar.
Attendance is nothing like the go-go years of the past, area campgrounds are beginning to fill up. First thing you notice is how many fancy RV's are showing up, the 250$k kind. Some of these people have so much money, they hire a professional driver to drive the bus, & their bikes out here, while they take a plane. At the opposite end of the food chain, you have the dudes who barely make it out here, sleeping in a tent. Seeing lots of them. Everywhere you look, little homes & farms are renting out camping space. Saw one biker sleeping on a mattress inside somebody's garage, putting a financial drain on some of the bigger venues. Still, when people say "oh, it's only 350 to 400 thousand", hey, that's stil a lot of bikers. I'll bet NASCAR wishes they could get that many race fans into Daytona during speed weeks!
ABM free food patrol: Today, Belle Forouche, 10am-2pm, Lead, 10am-2pm, SD Pork Council giving away free pork loin sandwiches, doused in Jack Daniels bbq sauce. All you can eat, no charge. Rumor is they'll be inside the Buffalo Chip soon. Stay tuned for free food details..
Hit it good up in Deadwood, Tin Liz's, was paying out. One bluehair hit the dollar slots so hard took the machine several minutes to cough up her cash. We did good too, about 1400% over our initial investment. Ran out the door w/our winnings. Only the 2nd time ABM has exited a casino with more money than what we brought. Only other time was just across from Death Valley, in Beatty, Nevada. Speaking of money...
Hundred dollar bills are being given a closer look, a half dozen have surfaced during the week gone by. Area merchants tell ABM the bills are a good fake, & that the hologram of ol' Ben Franklin should be held up to a bright light for authentification. Several days ago, a Black Hills motel was held up at gunpoint. Cops still searching for the robbers.
Chuck Berry a no-show at the Buffalo Chip last evening. Sly Stone tribute band filled in, featuring "Cynthia & Jerry", rock n roll hall of famers, and original members, same ones who were at Woodstock. Overheard by Cindy during a mike check.. something about being paid "cash money". Woody's good for the dough...At the Broken Spoke, the bands are free, IF you're camping there. K Headhunters, Foghat, 38 Special, etc. Molly, Jackyl, Korn, over at the Full Throttle. Thought a sign said "free", but the better half is telling me there's a cover chg. You'll need tickets for Korn, fer shure. There's a huge bridge along the western edge of the throttle, which we saw on a two lane northeast of town last August, on a huge trailer. Looked like they were trying to figure out how to get it over to the bar.
Attendance is nothing like the go-go years of the past, area campgrounds are beginning to fill up. First thing you notice is how many fancy RV's are showing up, the 250$k kind. Some of these people have so much money, they hire a professional driver to drive the bus, & their bikes out here, while they take a plane. At the opposite end of the food chain, you have the dudes who barely make it out here, sleeping in a tent. Seeing lots of them. Everywhere you look, little homes & farms are renting out camping space. Saw one biker sleeping on a mattress inside somebody's garage, putting a financial drain on some of the bigger venues. Still, when people say "oh, it's only 350 to 400 thousand", hey, that's stil a lot of bikers. I'll bet NASCAR wishes they could get that many race fans into Daytona during speed weeks!
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