Easter Bunny Run

Early Friday morning I took Morgan to the Harley Davidson Dealership of Ft Myers. Fox Channel 4 Morning News was there.

From 6am to 9am Fox Channel News Wild Bill Wood reported from the Harley-Davidson of Ft Myers Dealership. The Easter Bunny came and I took a photograph of my now 10 year old son Morgan. He got interviewed twice on the show. He was so excited about being on the news.

On Saturday my other son Jordan, who turns 11 come Thursday, went with me on the Easter Bunny Run. Southwest HOG Chapter of Ft Myers was the sponcer of this run. We started out at the dealership and rode to the Childrens Hospital down here. Everyone was to bring at least one toy. Many people brought more that one toy. There were over 300 people on this run. Jordan really had a ball and he also went up stairs to play with the kids that were in the Hospital!

When we rode up, Lee County Sheriff Department provided the Police Escort the whole way. At every intersection some one waved at us. Then when we got to the Hospital there were kids everywhere. When we went inside to give the toys to the kids most of us got tears in our eyes. Jordan went around playing with the children in the Hospital. It did him a world of good to see these kids.

Cruising the Beach at Spring Break

The last few weekends I have been cruising down Ft Myers Beach in the evenings. I took Jordan one night and Morgan the next night. I met up with my friend Bob from outside of Chicago. He has a 2005 HD Fat Boy. It has over $12,000 worth of chrome and paint on it and other extras.

The rides on the beach has been fun with all the College Spring Break Students here. They really love our lights. I have 7 LED Lizard Lights that change colors on my bike. Bob has 20 LED Green Light Pods on his bike! He got them up at Daytona Bike Week. It is a sweat Scoot!

This week I took Morgan for a day time ride down to the Beach. It is a 6 mile ride from our house to Estero Island which is Ft Myers Beach. When we got to about 2 miles from the beach the traffic jam started! It took us almost a hour to get the final 2 miles! Too many tourist and spring breakers down here. I couldn't even find a place to park my "Beast" there. So I parked it by the store "The Winds." We walked over to Times Square and walked out on the Fishing Pier. I couldn't believe all the people on the Beach! I NEVER seen that many people there, maybe it was because it was 89 degrees.

When I looked down the beach from the Pier I saw over 50 boats which dropped anchor by the beach. Then the people walked to shore to the bars. I seen people swimming a few hundred yards off the beach and past the end of the pier. I bring this up because their were people catching SHARKS there!!! How stupid can a person be? People catching snook and other fish and then someone pulls in a 5 1/2 foot Hammerhead Shark! I think I would be out of the water by that time. These crazy tourist kept on swimming. Oh yeah, Ft Myers Beach has NO LIFEGUARDS!

Walking back to the bike I saw a great t-shirt in a stores window. It had a picture of a Shark and said "Send more Tourist!" I laughed, how true that is. Just one thing that bothers me is, if they call it tourist season, why cann't we SHOOT THEM?

Tonight I am going to Road Captains meeting at the Southwest Florida HOG Chapter. Then on Saturday is the Bunny Ride. We are to bring a toy and $5 for the Police Escorted ride from Ft Myers HD to the Lee County Childrens Hospital. This should be a fun ride. Since Morgan road on the Santa ride, Jordan is going to ride on the Easter ride with me. There will be hundreds of bikers on the ride. How cool is that?! We ride in Parade Formation, which is: we ride side by side, handle bars to handle bars. Not in the stagered formation which is safer but in a parade formation is better for this kind of ride. It is fun riding a couple of feet between you and the next guy at 45 mph. The sounds of a V-Twin motorcycle with loud pipes and all for Charity. What is more American that that. lol.

Until next time, Keep the ride smooth and safe. If you can't ride, dream about it.