Sunday Seaman's Run

Sorry, no pics again, as this website doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Anyway...

This past Sunday, the group got together and we headed over one town over, to help support a run put together by the cousin of our Posts' commander. It's a memorial run in memory of the cousin's father, and all proceeds go to a scholarship fund in his name.

The day was bright, clear, and sunny. Perfect for a nice ride through surrounding towns, especially when there's a nice LEO presence in the front of the column, clearing the way. Turnout was kind of light, given how nice a day it was. It seems the success of motorcycle runs is only breeding more runs, which is to be expected, but the downside is there are so many runs going on, every weekend, that the riding population gets thinned out pretty easily.

We still made the most of things, and, as just mentioned; had a nice ride which lasted for a little over an hour. Rolling back into the Elks lodge (where the run was out of), we were greeted with the sight of a huge smoker in the parking lot, it's rounded belly issuing wonderful scents which only turned our hungers up all the more.

Strolling inside, we surveyed the raffle items available and purchased our tickets, hoping to win something good (my streak of buying losing tickets, continues unabated). However, Billy and Mary cleaned up. It seemed that between the two of them, they were basically passing each other on the way up to the raffle tables and back to where we were seated. A winning ticket would be called, Mary would head up to select something and as she was turning to come back, another winning ticket would be called, and there went Billy, up to claim something. And when he was on his way back, Mary would be headed back up to collect something. Hey, it's all in the numbers, right? And in talking to Mary last night, we found out a big reason for their luck. It seems there was an anonymous donor at Sunday's run. He didn't have time to stick around for the raffles, but he'd purchased 120 tickets and then given them to Mary, with the stipulation that anything won on those tickets, be donated to the Shayne's run raffles. And sure enough; that guy's tickets turned out to be gold, and the Shayne's run raffle offerings were increased impressively.

Another good outcome from winning all the raffles - Another guy who was present, upon hearing about all their winnings being donated to their own son's memorial run (Shayne's Run), approached Mary and offered them a huge, still-in-the-box, Corona "event" umbrella that he had. Apparently this thing is somethingl ike 12' wide. So that was very nice of him.

After the raffles were all gone, we finished up our business and broke off into our own directions. It hadn't been a crazy day, but it had been a good day. And, a fair amount of change had been raised for a good cause.

Can't ask for much more than that.

Ride Hard, Take Chances