A Little Ray Of Sunshine – 30 August 2008

There was more than a little ray of sunshine this morning, it was plain hot.

This morning was the “Anniversary Parade” and I was lucky enough to receive a “Parade Pass” to partake in the parade.

Assembly was at Miller Park for a 20 minute parade ride to the Lakefront, the setting for the 105th celebrations as seen in the picture and described in yesterday’s blog.

I had not even got into Miller Park at around 7.30 am, when we were told there were some 75,000 bikes (yes 75,000) expected to ride in the parade and that they had been assembling since 6.00 am.

Well that did it for this little black duck, so after a quick u-turn and some 45 minutes later, I was out of there and off to the “House of Harley” dealership.

The whole block was closed and lined with vendors stalls, bars and a very long queue to get into the actual dealership shop itself.

This alone was as big as Gold Coast Bike Week, I had to park 2 blocks away with the few thousand bikes.

Wouldn’t Gold Coast Harley love to have this many bikes in their dealership car park.

Again this exercise took a few hours of strolling in the hot sun, eating on the run, the obligatory dealership T-shirt and back to the hotel around 3.30 pm.

I have tickets for the Bruce Springsteen concert, which is at Veterans Park at 8.30 pm (finishing at midnight) and together with a couple of other Aussies staying at the hotel, we are contemplating either getting a cab to the concert or giving it a miss as we leave Milwaukee at 8.00 am tomorrow morning.