Big Event at Maverick Motorsports

Today was the long awaited Conga celebration at Maverick Motorsports in Cheyenne. We were reduced to one word, WOW. It kicked off with a cookout, some music, and a shopping frenzie. LOL I took the mic, turned off the music and made a couple of presentations of appreciation to Flo for her tireless service to the Conga and those it touches. After that I opened up the mic to anyone who had something to say about what the Conga means to them. First up was, the "Twisted Sisters" from Canada. They lost their mother to breast cancer 20 years ago and the older was now the same age as their mother when she died. This was particularly sweet Conga ride for these two to ride together on the anniversary of their mom's passing. The younger presented her sister with matching denim jackets with pink embroidery with their mom's birthday, some other loved ones who had struggled with cancer and messages of hope and courage. Neat stuff!  Then a couple of survivors told their stories. One gal wanted to ride last year, but was in a fight for her life. She shared that following the Conga online was the best thing she has to look forward to everyday when she felt like dog doo. More stories of love, compassion, encouragement, friendship, and love.

We stayed until about 3p then headed back to the hotel for a riding demo led by Doc Donna showing the skill and grace of precision riding. She was joined by Mark and Pam, of Top Gun Competition fame, Harris, from Denver, an awesome rider, Flo, and Tanya, from Canada. These folks had never ridden together and were able to demostrate the three basic skills needed to properly control the motorcycle. We learned some new skills to practice.

We then returned to Maverick Motorsports for an evening of grilled burgers, a live band and more fundraising. The band was "Another Type of Majick". They looked young, but were awesome played awesome blues and Jimi Hendrix. When they were between songs, they introduced themselves and it was then that we found out that only one of them was old enough to drive to the gig. Watch for these 5 guys, we'll be seeing them again, probably on the tonight show.

We sold Conga items for donations, discovered more folks who had heard about us and stopped in to support the cause, and managed to dance the conga line before the sun set. When we got back to the hotel and started counting the monies we had raised $1500 on this one evening. That put our Conga total to 24K. That's solid gold, baby!

Now I'm am tired, I mean whopped tired, and have to sign off so that I can get some rest for the ride southbound tomorrow. It's been a wonderful day.

TRC