Rode from Nacogdoches to Jacksonville Texas last night for our monthly MOA/RA club meeting.
When we got into town, traffic was awful, not the usual for Jacksonville at 6 p.m. There were also roadblocks, cones, and patrol car lights flashing everywhere. Turned out that the annual Christmas parade was being held that night, and passing one block away from Sadler's restaurant, where we were meeting. We were in quite a snarl, trying to work past parked cars and groups of pedestrians.
At one point we were at a T intersection and didn't really want to pull out. A police officer helping with traffic walks over to us and says, "I don't care where you go, but you have to go NOW." I took that as a get-out-of-jail free card and pulled out into the turn lane and rode it a block or so down the street, keeping an eye out for wayward cars and pedestrians. We ended up fitting four bikes into a small paved & gravel spot right up behind the restaurant. There is a bandit and an R1100RT behind my brick
. An R1200GS arrived shortly after we arrived.
