{"id":4506,"date":"2013-11-14T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2013-11-12T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T05:17:17","slug":"already-planning-the-2014-ofmc-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/already-planning-the-2014-ofmc-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Already Planning the 2014 OFMC Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4508\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WolfCreekPass2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4508\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WolfCreekPass2013.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"Motorcycles at Wolf Creek Pass 2013\" title=\"Wolf Creek Pass 2013\" width=\"497\" height=\"340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WolfCreekPass2013.jpg 497w, https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WolfCreekPass2013-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The OFMC at Wolf Creek Pass in 2013.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>What do you get when you combine a motorcyclist, a map lover, and a government retiree living on a pension?<\/p>\n<p>In our case, you get a route for next year&#8217;s week-long summer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/ofmc-is-off-on-its-2013-ride\" target=\"_blank\">OFMC<\/a> trip this far ahead of time. John, our resident map nut, had time on his hands so he has already plotted things out. Now, in years past I used to battle him on this because nobody elected him as the person who decides where we&#8217;re going. No one else cared though, and the trips were always good, so I&#8217;ve thrown in the towel. What do you have in store for us Johnny?<\/p>\n<p>Next year is going to be a bit different than anything we&#8217;ve done before. We&#8217;re actually going to stay in one place for three nights and do a lot of riding in the area. We&#8217;ve stayed two nights at places frequently but that has almost always been so we could take one day and play golf. This time we&#8217;re going to be in the Black Hills and the agenda is riding.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the itinerary.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start out on Friday and just go to Brush. That&#8217;s a short day&#8217;s ride but a lot of us will be working so we&#8217;ll either have to get off a little early or show up late. That works fine.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday we&#8217;ll press on to Chadron, NE, which is kind of in the middle of a tail end of the Black Hills in Nebraska. Very pretty place. Then on Sunday it&#8217;s on to Hill City, SD, for three nights. We&#8217;ll be staying in a lodge with cabins with kitchens and restaurants close by, too. On one day we&#8217;ll do Needles highway to Mount Rushmore and on the other we&#8217;ll cruise up to Deadwood. Got to hit a gambling spot, you know. That&#8217;s a must for most of these guys.<\/p>\n<p>When we start moving again it will be to head to Buffalo, WY. And the next day it will be on to Riverton.<\/p>\n<p>From there we&#8217;ll be heading back, with our last night in Walden, and then home the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is that everyone will be issued a lodging assignment. We&#8217;ll each make our reservations and no one person will be stuck doing it all. And we&#8217;ll get that done well in advance so none of the motels will already be full. You&#8217;ve got to do these sorts of things when you&#8217;re traveling with nine guys.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just have to wait until late July.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>I thought YOU had the map&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine a motorcyclist, a map lover, and a government retiree living on a pension? In our case, you get a route for next year&#8217;s week-long summer OFMC trip this far ahead of time. John, our resident map nut, had time on his hands so he has already plotted things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[567],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ofmc","tag-summer-motorcycle-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}