Heading to the Laughlin River Run
I need desperately to get away from this computer and the Laughlin River Run is my salvation. I’ve never been to it but this rally, April 21-25, is said to be the West Coast’s biggest motorcycle event. I’ll take three mostly leisurely days getting there, spend probably four days there, and then another three not-necessarily-leisurely days getting home.
It’s going to be an interesting trip in a lot of ways. Two of my overnights will be, I hope, arranged via the Motorcycle Travel Network. This is an organization that bills itself as “The Only Bed and Breakfast Network for the Traveling Motorcycle Enthusiast.” I mentioned it once before, and now I have joined. There are members in both Cedar City, UT, and Kanab, UT, and I’m hoping to stay with one on the way out and the other on the way back. I’ll certainly report back on my experience with this.
The rally itself is kind of an unknown. There is an official site but when you click on the link for the event schedule all you get is a note that says “2010 Events Schedule coming soon!” Well, considering the rally starts in 5 days, just how soon can we expect something?
From what I can tell, a different casino has some rock band each night, and they’re all the usual washed-up old timers still beating that same dying horse they’ve been on for years. I don’t guess I’ll be hitting any of those shows.
The only scheduled events I can find anything out about are on Saturday, April 24, which appears to be the real day for the rally. These two events are a custom bike show at one casino and the actual ride that was the genesis for the rally. I guess the rest of the time is just “come relax, spend money in our casinos, and hand out with a lot of other bikers.”
We’ll see. Whatever it turns out to be I’ll certainly be reporting back on that, too.
Update on site hack
Of course, the reason I so desperately need a break from the computer is all the hours I’ve spent trying to undo the damage caused by the asshole who hacked this site. While all the malicious code has been neutralized, the jerk also created thousands of spammy links on other, presumably hacked, sites pointing to my site to dynamic .php pages their code created. This has overwhelmed my legitimate incoming links so search engines are now convinced that this site is all about this stupid drug.
This crap is killing my traffic. If it weren’t for the many legitimate links that people have created to the site over the years there would be little, if any, traffic. So if you would like to do me a huge favor, put up as many links as you can on motorcycle forums or any motorcycle-related website. The more new links I can get the more chance I have of diminishing the effect of the hack. Thanks.
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April 19th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Hello,
From all of us here at the Kane County Office of Tourism in Kanab, UT we wish you “Happy Trails”!