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Old 24 Aug 2010
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Outstanding!
Add our 4 thumbs up for the Petrolia meeting. Great job Susan, Grant and Stephan. Great group of people. GREAT RIDING!. We're looking forward to next year!

Susan and Grant mentioned the possibility of finding a location that would be accessible to more people (in order to make the event financially sustainable). We're looking into possible venues in the Central Coast/San Luis Obispo area. We're about half way between SF & LA (about 250 mi each way)
It's not the Lost Coast - but Big Sur ain't too shabby. We'll keep posting here as we explore it. Any suggestions, comments, input - let us hear from you.

Thanks again to everyone, Sandy & Mike Dimond (HiViz green helmets)

PS - the KLR made it home fine on the repaired flat. Thanks Grant!
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Great photos Jayne & Stefan, thanks for the sharing them. I took some photos leading up to the meeting and then apparently forgot I had a camera... grrr!

Also, Mike Dimond, I seem to have ended up with your special tire tool, PM me and I'll stick it in the mail.

And neglected to thank Grant and Susan and Stephen for putting this meeting together, great job! And extra thanks Grant for all the tire tutoring, got me home safely!

PS - Craig, I don't think your 250 held us back at all, you were amazing on the "dual-sport" Ninja!
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it was great meeting all of y'all! many thanks to Grant, Susan, and Stephan for organizing this event.

i'll be posting some more links to the requested medical stuff - should i put it here or in the first aid forum?

for now - here's where you can take a Wilderness First Responder course:
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it was great meeting all of y'all! many thanks to Grant, Susan, and Stephan for organizing this event.

i'll be posting some more links to the requested medical stuff - should i put it here or in the first aid forum?

for now - here's where you can take a Wilderness First Responder course:
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Molly, the medical forum is probably the best idea to help the most people, and then we can link to the post from here.

Thanks for the great presentation! If it saves one person's life, it's huge!

See you next year
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Susan and Grant mentioned the possibility of finding a location that would be accessible to more people (in order to make the event financially sustainable). We're looking into possible venues in the Central Coast/San Luis Obispo area. We're about half way between SF & LA (about 250 mi each way)
It's not the Lost Coast - but Big Sur ain't too shabby. We'll keep posting here as we explore it. Any suggestions, comments, input - let us hear from you.
We also talked about this with Susan... The attendance would be a lot more if it moves down south between LA and SF.

I met a fireman in Big Sur on the way back and mentioned about the possibility of an event around there. He is very much into motorcycle travelling and was very excited about it. He knows the area very well, and will talk to some of the locals for a location.

I'll keep posted and try to bring him to this forum as well...

I also want to thank everyone at the meeting. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot of things from many people. Not just the presenters but everyone.

I always meet many people with lots of things to share at these meetings. You don't need to do a substantial amount of riding to talk about "best cameras for motorcycle travelling" or "blogging the right way" or "how I got my wife into riding" etc.. There are some very interesting people and I would love to see them presenting next year.

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What a great time I had at the meetup in Mattole. A better bunch of people and finer roads are hard to come by. Cheers to all who attended.

I recognize the need for a change in venue if too few people choose to attend. It's just that... In my mind The Lost Coast is the perfect place to hold the California meeting, a true destination well off the grid of normal everyday life.

Sigh, hopefully if there's a change of venue it'll prove to be similarly wonderful. Regardless, I'll likely still attend.

Thanks to Grant, Susan, the presenters, the volunteers, and all fellow attendees.

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Argh, I tried to make it. The DMV put a hold on registering my bike that took 2 days with 3 DMV visits, and 18 phone calls to get them to fix their mistake. I ended up just tagging along with a friend for a ride in her car to Baja California instead.

I just got back. If I was back a day earlier, I'd be riding to Colorado for that event.
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We're looking into possible venues in the Central Coast/San Luis Obispo area.
And I'm going to see if there are any practical possibilities in the Santa Cruz hills south of San Francisco, which would also likely result in better attendance due to the large nearby population with tons of riders. I sure did enjoy the Lost Coast, which I had never been to before, but I understand that Grant and Susan need more people to show up in order to cover the cost.

I wouldn't complain, however, if the event were anywhere near San Luis Obispo! I love the SLO-town area, and it is very well situated between the two largest population centers in California yet far enough away from both.
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