USA Today Features Gillette, WY

[redclfco]

Is now the wrong time to mention the buzz/crackle from the high-tension wires on the rally site?

...Even worse time to complain about the GS parked on it's side (of which I have a photo)?

Hopefully it wasn't MY GS. Honestly I didn't notice high wires, but I seriously think what they have planned for a camping area should be taken a second look at. The Boxelder campground was my favorite for vehicles and trailers versus the close in area (probably the high wire area?) set up for RV's and the like with no grass, in fact I think for the most part was paved? As at West Bend the lawn areas were huge and would work for the majority of tent camper areas...sounds like you have been there you know what I mean!

Red

[braddog]

Will the Gillette kids be crapping in the swimming pools at the MOA rally, because if they are, well that's just wrong.

[knary]

Will the Gillette kids be crapping in the swimming pools at the MOA rally, because if they are, well that's just wrong.

Will there be swimming pools at the rally?!?!

What kind of soup would we be brewing...

[SHERIDESABEEMER]

Will the Gillette kids be crapping in the swimming pools at the MOA rally, because if they are, well that's just wrong.

Locals will have to pay $35 to crap in our pool. Probably not worth the trouble.

[braddog]

Locals will have to pay $35 to crap in our pool. Probably not worth the trouble.

[PAGoldsby]

Locals will have to pay $35 to crap in our pool. Probably not worth the trouble.

What if the Day-Crap-In-Pool-Pass measure is floated (so to speak)?

[SHERIDESABEEMER]

This thread is going down the toilet...

[drharveys]

Don't tell me the kids crapped in the pool on purpose??

Only if it was a "swim with the dolphins" pool -- then the kids crap in the pool on porpoise!

[aaaaaa]

My only concern is the gasoline. I'll just change it every day (maybe twice). I just don't want any water contamination to build up in it. Keep these rumors coming. I don't want any lines or shortage of premium grade fuel.
robert 04 gs

[BIGDELTA]

You're a veritable fountain of positivity, aintcha?

who offer a differing opinion on Gillette?Or is that part of your duties as webmaster?Oh,I mean information architect.Is the local C of C or MOA paying your freight?

[BIGDELTA]

What the hell is wrong with Tijuana?

[redclfco]

"It has cleaner water than Gillette. "

Your talking from experience or just out of the corner of your mouth like everyone else who has decided to beat up on the 08 rally?

I'm not even defending Gillette, it is what it is, a small WY town with the SAME problems as other small western towns. What I am defending (and sometimes ask myself why) is the rally.

The 08 rally could be set for anytown USA and it wouldn't matter. The rally is a place in your mind, married to a dot on the map where you go to experience the Nirvana of BMW motorcycle brother and sisterhood.

I defend, because I see half truths, inuendos, total outright fabrications tearing up, influencing people who otherwise would of come and experience what good Wyoming could offer; and Wyoming is a beautiful state, be it starting 30 miles out of Gillette, it's worth it, I know, I speak from living 40 plus years just catty corner from this exact spot!

If you speak, Big D, Officer Greenwald and other naysayers, speak in truths, in experiences, THAT ARE actual opinions. Half truths, and spin for sake of spin are nothing more than shouting "fire" in the crowded theatre of life. There is no fire here. If you speak true opinions, your not going to have any trouble with me.

Red

[greenwald]

To Big Delta: While I appreciate your support, no need to come to my 'defense.' While any criticism of Gillette is often shouted down by the 'Usual Suspects' on this web site, you may wish to distance yourself from me for now.

As for myself, worry not. Three decades in law enforcement has left me with skin that is not just thick-enough for this sort of knee-jerk indignation, it's 'bully-proof.'

Leave Gillette alone - the topic is sacred. Let us confine our concerns to oil changes or GPS mounts, lest a predictable eight or nine contributors (out of the over one thousand, eight hundred who viewed this original thread so far....something that makes you pause and go..Hmmm..) pounce on you.

Ride while the weather is good, enjoy life and shake off this brush fire of sarcasm - more important things await us, I'm sure.

[sibud]

get out your anonymous book and notice Du Quoin, Illinois was the rally site a few years ago.

Come on, the riding in S. Illinois, no matter how great I think it is, is nothing compared to Wyoming.

[BIGDELTA]

get out your anonymous book and notice Du Quoin, Illinois was the rally site a few years ago.

Come on, the riding in S. Illinois, no matter how great I think it is, is nothing compared to Wyoming.

I made an effort to visit Gillette a few weeks ago just to decide if it works for me -and it doesn't.It'll work for some,not for others.There will be other Nationals to attend that are more appealing.