Corner to Corner: Tony's Prelude

On July 19th (just over a year from our last posting on this blog) Gary and I will be venturing out on the biggest motorcycle trip in the 4 years that we have been riding. We are calling this trip "Corner to Corner" as we will be riding from the Southeast Corner to the Northwest Corner of the United States on two of our Harley's.

Prior to this, there are a few things that will happen. First, we will be shipping my 2008 Ultra Classic and Gary's 2006 Dyna Street Bob to Miami, Florida around the 1st of July. It will take about 3 weeks to get there, which is perfect timing with my plans to attend GALA Festival 8 in Miami.

In fact, three weeks from tomorrow I will be leaving Seattle to fly on the Red Eye flight from Seattle to Orlando. I will be picking up a car at the Orlando airport and then driving direct to Miami, where I will pick up Steve, fellow Seattle Men's Chorus and The BEARatones member, at the Miami airport before driving to our hotel in the city.

The GALA festival is a gathering of gay and lesbian choruses and small groups from around the world. The week will be filled with performances from all the various chrouses and Seattle Men's Chorus will be anchoring the Tuesday evening (July 15th) performance at 11pm. Then my small group, The BEARatones will be making our debut GALA performance on Friday, July 18th at 4pm.

Gary will join me in Miami on the 17th so that he can see the BEARatones perform and then we will pick up the bikes from the Miami Harley-Davidson dealership on Saturday the 19th and ride the 130 miles across many bridges and blue green water to Key West.

We will be blogging the trip here like we do with all of our trips, so look for more postings about our stops in between.