GlideFest

GlideFest - the annual meeting of the ElectraGlide Garage Forum members will take place in June each Year.  Plan your vacations!

Each year the location will vary in the hopes of getting as many of us together as possible.  Locations to be announced in the beginning of each year.

Plan now to join us in Lewisburg, West Virginia, on Friday evening and Saturday, June 11 and June 12, for GlideFest 2010. Founded in 1808, Lewisburg is a funky little town (little is the operative word). It'll be an interesting change of pace from previous GlideFest locations.   Our host motel is the Quality Inn (formerly the Brier Inn) located at 540 N. Jefferson Street; phone: (304) 645-7722. [Note: The Brier Inn is in transition to a Quality Inn. The new website is still under construction and will be included when available.]   We have 15 rooms - 13 no smoking and 2 smoking - all with two queen beds, blocked for us under the group name "GlideFest" [group code: 9568]. The group rate is $80/night (including tax). More rooms are available, if needed.   The Quality Inn has wireless Internet, a free hot breakfast, a lounge, and a large patio deck off the lounge, where we'll gather Friday and Saturday evening, for our usual telling of tall tales and other true stories, over a few cold ones.   For Friday evening, there is a Ruby Tuesday restaurant located next door, if we decide to do that rather than pizza. For Saturday evening, we have 6 pm reservations at Food & Friends located in downtown Lewisburg:   Unfortunately, Food and Friends is not within walking distance. The Quality Inn, however, has a 25 passenger airport-style van and they have agreed to ferry us to the restaurant as a group for dinner and then pick us up when we've finished.   Saturday's day ride is about 150 miles in length, consisting of two lane state roads (no country roads) with broad sweeping curves. Although there are three very short sections with some tight curves, of the type one normally associates with West Virginia roads. We'll assemble in the parking lot around 9 am and leave around 9:30 am.   Along the route we'll stop for a moment to view the main building of the "Old Sweet" Resort in Sweet Springs, West Virginia. Now abandoned, the resort once rivaled the Greenbrier in luxury and grandeur as a prime destination for those seeking the curative and restorative powers of the spring waters. The main building is said to have been designed by Thomas Jefferson and is an unexpected and surprising sight located in this rural part of West Virginia.   Later in the day, we'll stop briefly in Talcott, West Virginia, to view the John Henry statue. Here, legend has it, the C&O Railroad brought in a steam powered drill to build a mile long tunnel through the Big Bend mountain. John Henry, "a steel-drivin' man", vowed to defeat the new fangled contraction in a contest. John Henry won the contest, but died from the exertion.   See you in June !

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