16 TERRITORIAL MAGAZINE By Alan Fankhauser he afternoon was quickly getting away from us so we did a quick run by Waylan’s KuKu Burger in Miami (that’s pronounced My-am-uh!) We tricked our group next as we headed them south out of Miami and headed towards the famous “9 foot highway” aka Sidewalk Highway or Rib- bon Road. I still remember the first time I traveled this famous stretch like it was yesterday, and now here I was traveling along again with dirt and gravel on either side of the center paved stretch, we eked our way towards Afton. Next up was Foyil and just outside of town the world’s largest Totem Pole at a height ex- ceeding 90 feet. The Totem Pole is in the process of being refurbished while the rest of the property contains a colorful collection of addi- tional, smaller Totem Poles. Another awesome photo opportunity! Finally, as the sun was starting to get into my eyes we were head- ed for the crowning jewel of the day, the Blue Whale in Catoosa, OK. This is the grinning, concrete cetacean star of a former swimming hole that now serves as a park and fishing hole. YEP, you guessed it, another crazy opportunity for numerous photographs of both the group and individual variety. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is our home for the evening and I suspect the tables will be busy late into the night. Hey everybody! Guess what, we’ve reached the half-way point in time, but not quite yet in miles! That means we’ve got some long days on the road in front of us. Before we worry about that I’ve got to tell you about how exciting Friday was along Route 66 on the way to OKC. The day started bright and early on Friday morning with a scrumptious pancake and sausage breakfast, compli- ments of Reba, Johnny and James McClanahan at Myers-Duren Harley-Davidson. The McClanahans then joined us up the street, along the banks of the Arkansas River at the Cyrus Avery Plaza where we took our group photograph. The background of the photograph will feature the roadway spanning the river. Michael Wallis explained the significance of the location as being the point along the route where East meets West. Following the full group photograph we took an equally important group pho- tograph of all of the women who were riding their own motorcycles on the rally. Can you guess how many of these great gals are in the picture? 35 female Road Warriors! I had no idea how many there would be, but that ends up being more than 10% of those members who are traveling the entire route. I’ve got to tell you, THESE GIRLS ROCK in my book! After the photos concluded we head west on route 66 for Stroud and the famous Rock Café. Per usual, our resident foodie the “Wis- consin Custard King” Drew took charge upon our arrival and was clearing tables and orchestrating seating for one and all! Lunch was About the Author (left in pho- to): Alan Fankhauser was born and raised in Garden City, KS and is a former Beef Empire Days, Inc. director and also was a Garden City commissioner until several years ago, when he was offered his “dream job” as event manager for the Harley Owners Group, a part of Harley- Davidson Motor Co. in Milwaukee, WI. A Har- ley owner for many years, Alan now lives in Wisconsin. The follow- ing is his “log” of this fabulous September, 2010 trip. (Barbara Oringderff, Editor) T
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By Alan Fankhauserhe afternoon was quickly getting away from us so we did a quick run by Waylan’s KuKu Burger in Miami (that’s pronounced My-am-uh!) We tricked our group next as we headed them south out of Miami and headed towards the famous “9 foot highway” aka Sidewalk Highway or Rib-bon Road. I still remember the first time I traveled this famous stretch like it was yesterday, and now here I was
traveling along again with dirt and gravel on either side of the center paved stretch, we eked our way towards Afton. Next up was Foyil and just outside of town the world’s largest Totem Pole at a height ex-ceeding 90 feet. The Totem Pole is in the process of being refurbished while the rest of the property contains a colorful collection of addi-tional, smaller Totem Poles. Another awesome photo opportunity! Finally, as the sun was starting to get into my eyes we were head-ed for the crowning jewel of the day, the Blue Whale in Catoosa, OK. This is the grinning, concrete cetacean star of a former swimming hole that now serves as a park and fishing hole. YEP, you guessed it, another crazy opportunity for numerous photographs of both the group and individual variety. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is our home for the evening and I suspect the tables will be busy late into the night. Hey everybody! Guess what, we’ve reached the half-way point in time, but not quite yet in miles! That means we’ve got some long days on the road in front of us. Before we worry about that I’ve got to tell you about how exciting Friday was along Route 66 on the way to OKC. The day started bright and early on Friday morning with a scrumptious pancake and sausage breakfast, compli-ments of Reba, Johnny and James McClanahan at Myers-Duren Harley-Davidson. The McClanahans then
joined us up the street, along the banks of the Arkansas River at the Cyrus Avery Plaza where we took our group photograph. The background of the photograph will feature the roadway spanning the river. Michael Wallis explained the significance of the location as being the point along the route where East meets West. Following the full group photograph we took an equally important group pho-tograph of all of the women who were riding their own motorcycles on the rally. Can you guess how many of these great gals are in the picture? 35 female Road Warriors! I had no idea how many there would be, but that ends up being more than 10% of those members who are traveling the entire route. I’ve got to tell you, THESE GIRLS ROCK in my book! After the photos concluded we head west on route 66 for Stroud and the famous Rock Café. Per usual, our resident foodie the “Wis-consin Custard King” Drew took charge upon our arrival and was clearing tables and orchestrating seating for one and all! Lunch was
About the Author (left in pho-to): Alan Fankhauser was born and raised in Garden City, KS and is a former Beef Empire Days, Inc. director and also was a Garden City commissioner until several years ago, when he was offered his “dream job” as event manager for the Harley Owners Group, a part of Harley-Davidson Motor Co. in Milwaukee, WI. A Har-ley owner for many years, Alan now lives in Wisconsin. The follow-ing is his “log” of this fabulous September, 2010 trip. (Barbara Oringderff, Editor)
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great, although we missed seeing the proprietor, Dawn, as she was out for the day. Dawn is one of the characters in the Cars movie and a beautiful portrait of the movie character hangs above the fireplace in the newly, rebuilt eatery. (A fire destroyed the original building in 2008, but you would never know it now.) Our next stop was Chandler and the Route 66 Interpretive Center. A wonderful old armory building that now serves several purposes for the community. We had our choice of a craft fair and the great Route 66 exhibit. Up the street and around the corner was McJer-ry’s Route 66 Gallery. I’ve been visiting with Jerry McClanahan for months in preparation for the tour as he is the author of the EZ66 Guide, the great maps and directions that everyone is using to navi-gate the Mother Road. I’m sure everyone on the tour would have to agree that he has eliminated more than a couple of turn-arounds every day. Jerry’s artistry is featured in the gallery as well as at numerous places along the route. Once again, the day was quickly getting away from us when we stumbled upon one of the newest additions to the route, the Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum. Housed in a for-mer DX Station that is a National Historic Site, the museum features a number of great antique and unique motorcycles as well as lots of great Route 66 souvenirs. Back on the bikes, Arcadia was our next destination. The 1898 restored Round Barn and Route 66 exhibit was next up on the list. This great old structure features a loft that can be rented for dances, receptions and vari-ous other events, and it was great fun looking out the upper level windows at the beautiful Oklahoma countryside. In the dis-tance was Pop’s and as things heated up the giant white soda bottle with the bent straw was looking pretty tasty! We rolled up the road a couple of miles for our complimentary soda. My choice you ask? “Bugs Splat” (or something to that effect) a tasty combination of kiwi and pineapple! We rolled into west Oklahoma City only to find the parking lot at Harley-Davidson World jam-packed with Oklahoma City’s “Biggest Bike Night of the Year!” Dan and Sara Newman and the crew had a great country-rock band playing tunes, some tasty food and bever-ages and of course, lots of good company discussing the events of the day. It was nice to know that we would be in the same bed for a couple of nights and for me, a mini family reunion as my father and good friends, Dennis and Jan were waiting for us at the hotel. Saturday morning dawned and we were all headed off to Brick-town for some breakfast and more timely information from our friends, Michael and Suzanne Wallis. Saturday morning’s lesson included some great suggestions for our day in Oklahoma City and all kinds of great pointers for the next few riding days until we meet again in Albuquerque. People were lined up at the conclusion of the talk for autographs and Q&A. These great folks are true gems, and so gracious and knowledgeable. Since all of my clothes had taken on a life of their own I decided to spend the afternoon at the laundrymat but I heard some great
stories later in the day about trips to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the Okla-homa State Fair and so much more. A good day to relax, re-group, repack and rejuvenate! Sunday and Monday can only be described as a couple of days of extreme contrasts. I think everyone would agree that as we moved west and gradually climbed in elevation the tem-peratures were more tolerable! We were definitely entertained from both ends of the spectrum. And finally, as I alluded to in my last post, we’ve reached the halfway point and you can see the great bonds that have formed between new friends and old alike and I have to tell you, it’s going to be tough to bid farewell when the time comes. Sunday we had some great stops along the Mother Road as we crossed the Pony Bridge, stopped for a quick visit at Lucille’s outside Hydro, OK and then rolled into Clinton, OK. This city is home to the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, and we were pleased
to be included in their anniversary celebration that took place throughout the day on Sunday. Pat and her staff greeted every-one personally and as is true with so much of the road we could not have felt more at home and welcome. The museum is truly a gem and even though it was my second time through in just the last year or so, I still enjoyed myself immensely. Back on the road again we headed for Erick, in far western Oklahoma. This is where the entertainment spectrum does a 180 degree turn. Harley and Annabelle, the “Mediocre Music Makers” at the Sand Hill Curiosity Shop can only be described as the most bizarre site on the route to date and I have to tell you, in my mind it is probably the wildest thing this flatlander will see for years to come! There were bologna sandwiches and Oreo cookies, some open bottles of liquor (as in half gallons and fifths), some rot-gut, horrid beer and open bags of stale chips everywhere. As the tourist bus from the UK pulled away the show began for the members of the Harley Owners Group. They sang and played their guitars while members grabbed the tam-bourines and shakers that Harley threw at them and joined in. Some of the best photographs of this trip will come from the time spent with Harley and Annabelle, and the memories of them hugging and kissing everyone are engrained in my memory for-ever. Did I mention the restroom? That’s a story for another time (and several cocktails!)
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up and we even got to wit-ness a pie eating contest between 8 H.O.G. members who were participating in Schoony’s Survivor Ride. We headed out for Tucumcari, New Mexico and the famous Blue Swallow Motel. Back on the bikes we traveled to Santa Rosa, the Route 66 Auto Museum and the Blue Hole. At last count I had heard of at least 4 members taking the plunge (one even went in with boots on and fully
clothed!) After lunch at Joseph’s Bar and Grill (excellent sopapil-las and Mexican fare!) we headed for Cline’s Corners and Albu-querque and our home for the next couple of nights. It’s becoming very obvious to me why this road is so infec-tious. The history, the stories and the fabulous and unique in-dividuals that make up all of these iconic stops are the lifeline of the Mother Road, and if you’re just along for the riding and not taking all of this in, you are missing a great opportunity to experience something that is so unique to the American culture. It’s easy to see why so many visitors from all of the continents make the trek to Chicago to drive and experience the Mother Road; it is truly an American Treasure and believe me when I tell you it is alive and coming back! (To be continued in the next issue.)
It was a beautiful day for riding in the Land of Enchantment
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We saddled up and headed for Shamrock and the famous U-Drop-In, Groom’s huge cross and fi-nally our home for the eve-ning, Amarillo. The famous Texas Panhandle town is home to the Big Texan Steakhouse and Tripp’s Harley-Davidson. The fine folks at Tripp’s treated us to some great grub from Haufbrau’s Steak House and even though it had heated up a good time was had by all. In the past year Tripp’s opened their ex-panded and upgraded dealership and it was special to help them celebrate this milestone in their dealer history. Amarillo H.O.G. members and longtime Posse Riders Gary and Sheryl joined us at the party. I enjoyed catching up with these great friends who weren’t able to join us for the tour, but who made a point to stop by and see many of their fellow riders from over the years. Monday morning dawned crisp and sunny as we headed west for the famous Cadillac Ranch. We took over with spray painting and photographers. We created our own version of the famous site, we spelled out ‘H.O.G.’ using members and generally just “ran-amuck” for most of an hour. Next stop, Adrian, TX and the official half-way point of the ride. The Midpoint Cafe was serving pie and fresh cinnamon rolls and it really didn’t matter that it was not even noon yet! Fran and her staff were geared
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