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Here are the past events
we
have enjoyed. Check the Upcoming Events page for the
activities and rides coming soon.
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August
2008
8/2/08
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Country Ride
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We numbered 18 for
lunch at the Grumpy Troll in Mt Horeb which included 9 Illinois WOW
members. It is great fun to have these sisters join us for this ride
and meals. Photo
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8/3/08
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Ride
For Kids® |
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More
than 400 participants (230 bikes), including 10 local brain tumor
survivors and
their families, gathered at Fireman's Park in Middleton for the fifth
annual
event. A total of $102,570 was raised for the PBTF. WOW members raised
over
$2,000 – let’s see if we can double that next year. PBTF
Link
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8/15-16/08
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Ride to Remember
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The opening ceremony
Friday evening as well as the ceremony Saturday at the
Highground:Veterans Memorial Park were very touching and thought
provoking. Even riding into the park in the processional as they rang
the bell, brought tears to some eyes. The weather was beautiful and we
enjoyed camaraderie with Wow sisters from four different chapters. Photo
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July
2008
7/8-10/08
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Wow International Ride-In
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We had over 30
Wisconsin members attend the Ride-In in Boyne Falls, MI! We had a great
time riding the beautiful area roads and visiting with the over 400
members at the Ride-In. One afternoon we were lead on a police escorted
ride to an ice cream social in a near by town, East Jordan for free ice
cream. We also rode a ski lift to the top of the mountain - great view.
Photos: Group1, Mnt View, Duchess of WOW
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7/25-26/08
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WOW-WOW
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Fourteen ladies
gathered for our Women Only Week-end ride on Saturday morning. Our
route took us across the Merrimac ferry photo to lunch and on to the
Natural Bridge State Park photo. We had great fun attending
the Columbia County Fair for their steak supper Saturday night (which
included home-made pie). The cream puffs were delicious too! |
7/27/08
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Rockton Chicken run
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There were sixteen
members who rode to Rockton for BBQ chicken on this beautiful Sunday
morning. The route took us on a few different roads to get around the
detour on hwy 33, then we came back to hwy 33 and were able to ride
over Wildcat Mountain. The route home took us along the Wisconsin River
on Hwy 60. Photo
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June
2008
6/28/08
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State Wide Luncheon in Wild Rose
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Even with iffy
weather, we had many members attend. Some of us had our rain gear on
when we left for home and stayed dry underneath. We enjoyed the
camaraderie and Kevin of the Pioneer Pub had a drawing for a T-shirt.
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May
2008
5/3/08
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Madison Motorsports
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This ride was a
“wash” to say the least. The weather was cold and rainy and only one
person (Lynn) was brave enough to show up at Madison Motorsports on her
motorcycle. Three members in cars went to Culvers in Stoughton for
lunch.
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5/31/08
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Mr Soup
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We had a great turn
out of 19 people riding to Mr. Soup's house for lunch and camaraderie. Thanks Emma
for a great back road trip! What a
wonderful day it turned out to be with
the sun shining; albeit the wind was enough to wear you out. Mr. Soup out did himself again this year with
wonderful soup, snacks, and drinks for all who attended. Mr Soup said,
" My best guess is 200 people made it to the 8th Annual Soup Run. Folks
rode in from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Minnesota, Ontario
Canada, Iowa and many parts of Wisconsin."
Photos: group, area view
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April
2008
4/12/08
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Seminar - Getting bike ready for riding
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This was a good
seminar. We had 4 members attend at the Appleton Harley Davidson Dealer.
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4/20/08
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Spring Ride
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The weather sure
cooperated! We had 18 members come together to enjoy the over 75°
weather, fun roads, good food and great camaraderie! Photo
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March
2008
3/15/08
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Winter Fun Day |
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Thanks to
Jeanne and Peggy for planning this event
for us. Thirteen members met at the
Domes
to enjoy the incredible diversity of plant life. We
were able to view two domes only as the
third dome was still being set up for the spring flower show. After that we went to eat at TGI Fridays Front Row
restaurant at Miller Park. We had 4 guests join us for lunch. The food
and service was really good. The company was great.
Photo
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February
2008
2/8-10/08
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Chicago Motorcycle Show
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A bowl of chocolates
were used this year to lure women to our WOW booth. M&M's can work
wonders to strike up a conversation. Entering the show you see
motorcycles in very color begging you to sit on them, smell the leather
and see your reflection in the chrome. It sure is a good way to
get a mid-winter motorcycle 'fix'. Our group included Bert M, Judy M,
Sue K. Kathy M, Stepahnie and Donna S. Photo
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January
2008
1/19/08
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Brunch at Upper Krust |
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Despite below zero
temperatures, twenty-two folks (including 5 guests) met at the Upper
Krust
in Watertown to enjoy excellent food and great company. Thanks to Lynn
and Karlette for all the goodies. Everyone went home with at least one
prize if not more than one. It sure is fun to talk about motorcycling
when there is snow and cold outside! Does it make the winter go
faster?? Not sure.
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December
2007
12/15/07
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Christmas Party |
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Ninteen hardy folks
gathered at the Settlers Bay in Watertown despite the snowy weather.
Everyone enjoyed the good food, camaraderie, gift exchange and many
door prizes. Photo
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November
2007
11/4/07
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Potluck Planning meeting |
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Twenty-five ladies,
including one guest and some new faces and four support members
gathered
Sunday, to participate in planning our 2008 schedule. This schedule
will be posted in about two weeks. We had lots of great food and fun
camaraderie. Judy Michael drew the best hand to win the poker run.
Martha Morrison won the door prize donated by Jan Reisdorfer.
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October 2007
10/14/07
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Color Ride??
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Well it
rained and eleven of us traveled in 4-wheeled vehicles to Deerfield and
enjoyed camaraderie and brunch at the Cuba Cafe. Good food and
good company is a good way to spend a rainy day! Photo (Lynne & Cindy not in photo)
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10/16/07
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Winterizing your bike
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Seven members
attended the Northwoods Cruisers scheduled seminar at Rush Powersports
in Waupun on winterizing your bike. The gentlemen at Rush represented a
very informative seminar. There was a lot of intereaction with
questions and answers. Look for a summary in the next newsletter.
Thanks to Karen for setting up this session.
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September 2007
9/22/07
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Fall Ride and Election
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WOW,
what a great ride and the weather was perfect! We had 26 bikes and 27
people including 3 guests attend our Fall Ride. Thank you to Jan for a
great ride through
some twisty backroads and fall
scenery ending up in Indianford at Bubba D’s for lunch. Congratulations to our elected officers: Karlette S as
chapter director and Jan R as treasurer. Marguerite C will
continue as assist. chapter director. Here is a group Photo.
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August
2007
8/4/07
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Country Ride
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Five WOW
members from Illinois joined us for our Country Ride
Saturday, so we had 18 riders. We had fun
riding some curvy hilly back roads
from Middleton to New Glarus. Mt Vernon was the biggest town on our
route going out. While we had lunch at Tofflers restaurant it rained a
bit. With wet
roads, but no further rain, we took a more direct route back to
Middleton going
thru Mt Horeb during their Mustard Festival. Thanks
Sue for planning the ride. Photo1
Photo2
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8/5/07
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Ride
For Kids® |
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The
governor declared Aug. 5 Ride for
Kids® Day in Wisconsin,
and motorcyclists showed up in full force to support the cause. Spirits
were
high as more than 350 people gathered at Fireman's Park in Middleton
for the
fourth annual event. Thank you to everyone
who participated in the RFK event as riders and as volunteer
workers.Over $84,000 was raised by all the
participants! WOW was credited with over
$1300 in donations from its members! Five year old Devan is a 3 year
survivor in Wisconsin. Photo
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8/17-19
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Ride
to Remember |
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We had a great ride
getting to Neillsville Friday. The weather and roads were gorgeous. The
Highground opening ceremony was touching as the liberty bell was struck
for each Wisconsin soldier lost in Iraq and Afghanistan after which
participants voiced their thoughts and feelings in the 'talking
circle'.. We rode in the first guided ride Saturday as it began to
rain. It continued to rain Sunday during our ride home - so it truely
was a Ride to Remember.
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8/26/07
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Ride to King (not Rockton)
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Due to flooded and
washed out roads in Western WI near Rockton, we changed our destination
to King. Twenty-one of us were very happy with the beautiful sunshine
and dry roads on our way to King. The King's Table served good food and
everyone joined in the camaraderie! Photo
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July
2007
7/2-5/07
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WOW Ride-In - Springfield MO
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15 Wisconsin
people
attended the Ride-in this year! Riders enjoyed camaraderie, rides, and
meeting other chapters. It was great to visit with the many
people from all over the country! Jan, Bert, Sue K, Marguerite and Emma
decided to take advantage of the cool tour through the Fantastic
Caverns A group of women were the first to dig and discover these
caverns. The ride through the Mark Twain National Forest was more than
expected with twisties to die for and scenery not soon forgotten. Pat
Walczak's bike took 2nd place in the bike show and Darlene Anderson won
the 25 year WOW rug! Our group picture shows Darlene and Pat's prizes
(Lynne Thatcher is missing from the pic). Photo
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7/14/07
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Ride to Nelson Cheese Factory
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Chris,
Stephanie,
Lynn K and Karlette rode on beautiful back roads to Nelson, WI. We saw
egrets, herons, comorants, and eagles high in the sky! We enjoyed lunch
with the Women On the Edge chapter. Lunch was really good; they make
fresh sandwiches you can order with the cheese they make there. For
desert there was some fantastic ice
cream! Everyone enjoyed the food and visiting with each other. Lynn K
said it was about 430 miles round trip from Madison. Photo
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7/28-29
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WOW-WOW week-end
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What a wonderful time we
had at
the WOW-WOW this year with
18 members and 3 possible new members that joined us in a ride lead by
Donna
Amacher and Carol Armstrong through the back roads to Savannah, IL. We
enjoyed lunch and shopping at Poopy’s Pub
& Grill. The ride then went on to visit the
Iron Horse Social Club where there was a bike “museum” of sorts and
even a
place where you could pronounce your wedding vows in the top floor of
the
establishment. Next stop was of course
for ice cream at Culver’s in Galena,
IL. The weather was perfect as was the
company. Thank you to Donna and Carol
for a wonderful scenic ride! Photo
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last update 8/24/08
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