Fellow Blue Knights,

I will be doing a ride to the 2011 Rio Grande Conference in Granbury, Texas.  Granbury is on the Brazos River southwest of Fort Worth.  This will be a Southwest Ride featuring Carlsbad Caverns National Park, The UFO Museum in Roswell, NM, Lincoln State Park (Billy the Kid & Pat Garrett fame), Alamogordo, NM (Space Museum and White Sands National Monument), and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument near Silver City, NM.The ride will depart from Tombstone, AZ, on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, and will return to Tombstone on Thursday, May 26, 2011 (10 days).  Plan on an additional 2 1/2 days ride from Sacramento to Tombstone.

Attached is a Ride Information Packet which is in PDF form and can be opened with Acrobat Reader.  Rio Grande Conference registration information is included in the packet .

The Rio Grande Conference dates are May 19 – 22, 2011.  The registration fee is $65.00 if paid before March 1, 2011.  The host hotel in Granbury is the Comfort Inn.  There are also blocks of rooms in three adjacent hotels.  I have booked a room at the La Quinta Inn across the street from the Comfort Inn.  See the conference registration information for details.

You can go to the Blue Knights Texas Chapter 21 website at http://www.blueknightstx21.org/ for information about the conference.

If you are interested in this ride, send me an email at foghorn0222@aol.com.

I will be leaving for Arizona in my motorhome on February 22, 2011 and will be staying in Tombstone until early July.

2011 Southwest Ride Information Packet

Hope to see you in Tombstone on May 17th.

Ride with Pride

Mike Martin 

UPDATE:

As of today, the only confirmed riders for the 2011 SW Ride to the Rio Grande Conference in Granbury, TX, are Rich Fancher of AZ IX and myself. He and I have been to all of the places of interest in New Mexico that are on our return trip from Granbury one or more times. So, Rich and I have decided to ride some roads new to us and visit some places we haven’t seen before. Therefore, I have changed our return trip itinerary.

Our return trip itinerary is as follows:

Sun May 22 – Depart Granbury and ride to Waco, TX where we will visit the Texas Ranger Museum. Then, ride the hill country to Fredericksburg, TX, stopping in Crawford, TX, for lunch. Stay at the Days Inn in Fredericksburg.

Mon May 23 – Visit the Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, then ride to San Antonio to tour the Alamo. Stay at the Days Inn Alamo/Riverwalk in San Antonio.

Tue May 24 – Depart San Antonio and ride to Alpine, TX via US 90. Stop at Langtree, TX, and tour the Judge Roy Bean State Historical Site en route to Alpine. Stay at the Best Western in Alpine, TX.

Wed May 25 – Depart Alpine, TX, and Ride to Deming, NM, where we will stay at the Days Inn.

Thur May 26 -Depart Deming, NM, and return to Tombstone, AZ.

Our itinerary en route to Granbury will remain the same.

If, between now and our departure date of May 17, anyone decides to ride with us all or part of the way , send me an email. Otherwise, I’ll see you in July when I return to Sacramento.