Starved Rock Cruise - this is happening!

jontoad wrote:

me and crystal went down some of the same roads on the way home a little faster in the turns. still kept getting slow cars in front of us though. id love to go back some time when the road is not busy and just blast through the turns.

it was almost a bad thing it was such good weather. the roads were too busy to get some good group parking shots near the fall colors.

agreed.... there were just too many people to make it as fun as it could have been in my opinion. but a blast none the less haha.

ok, well, here the few pictures ( i mean few, like only 6) I took with my camera. its gonna be a few days probably before I get the ones from my friend.


https://s710.photobucket.com/albums/ww102/FireStartr420/CAMM%20Starved%20Rock%20Cruise%2010-9-11/

Was a great day for a drive that park was over packed wow agreed it woulda been more fun without 5 million people there.
drive back was nice we played with an M5 on 12 until he tried to turn off and changed his mind at the last minute rolled over this huge pothole next to the road when he tried to get back on and was airborne for a few seconds we though he was gonna lose it. That had to fuck something up suspension wise it was a pretty hard hit.
Anyway the day was nice it just was no way we all could have stayed together with all those people there hell I don't even know if Brian and Deb made it we never saw them

Nice shots Tom! Couple hot pics from the parking lot in front of Macy's!

-vagrant

Starved Rock Cruise Pictures: Click Here!



Ok, well here is the link to the pics that I took. I haven't really looked at them good and it isn't all that I took but these were better than others at first glance. I'm glad we were able to go.



This makes 2 cruises this year!!! Thanks Adam and Tom for planning them both!! we need to do more!! They are much more fun than sitting at car shows. I'm glad we didn't decide to BBQ there, we would've had a big problem trying to find a spot.



I know Deb and Brian made it there but we never saw them and Vikes got lost from our group once we got there (maybe left?? too busy there)



Anyways, looking forward to the next one, and on a different weekend when Burgoo (??) isn't going on in Utica, that traffic was hellish!

AlterEgo wrote:

Anyways, looking forward to the next one, and on a different weekend when Burgoo (??) isn't going on in Utica, that traffic was hellish!

my dad said we should have eaten at that festival in town. it was like a stew making festival.

dude! People were parking miles away! It was crazy! We did pass duffy's though. It was completely packed with bikers.

Now I get it as we were driving through there were lots of big pots with stuff cooking in them over fire pits. Hmm sounds interesting

Great day had fun cruising with everyone except the traffic down there. I didnt take many pics after orland but ill post what i have tomorrow when i get back home.

Great pics Tom and Jackie. Had a good time- great cruise-great people. Liked climbing the stairs so much that Nicholas and I decided to go on the other side and check out the "starved rock". Those were worse than the ones we climbed up to the lodge. It's too bad the park was WAY over crowded-maybe we would have never been separated.(cell phone reception would have been nice too...lol)

We left going through Utica- damn, lots of bikers. Took us 25 minutes to go 1.5 miles. But we got a ton of thumbs up from them as we crawled by - that was cool!

Was a good day! Nice seeing everyone! Once my friend Sean uploads the pics...I will post them. We got some great pics of the drive out there and some kickass pics from hiking the trails. Got some pics of the eagles and some deer too!

Love the pics thanks all!! I wish I would have come...I had fun at the Morris car show though over 2000 cars it was crazy...they filled to capacity and had to turn cars away! I will do next cruise for sure!!

stairman wrote:

We left going through Utica- damn, lots of bikers. Took us 25 minutes to go 1.5 miles. But we got a ton of thumbs up from them as we crawled by - that was cool!

As i was behind Vic i heard a few people talking about that cool challenger, and one guy actually liked my stripes and told me it looked good.

We did make it there we were in the park before you guys got to the lodge hiking already... we hiked for prob 5 miles or so... lots of fun... we have been there a couple of time before so we know our way around really well... didnt see anyone but we have some pics that i will post up sometime today... we are off to go apple picking now so have a great day...