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Gary Smith & Tricia Warwick
(505) 463-0807
New Mexico District
Directors Gary GLS650@msn.com
Tricia triciatalkn2ya@gmail.com
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HEADQUARTERS: 21423 North 11th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85027
Phone: 1-800.843.9460 or 623.581.2500 (Phoenix)
Table of Contents
Team GWRRA 2
New Mexico District Team 2
New Mexico Chapters 3
Directors – Gary Smith & Tricia Warwick 4
Assistant Directors – Dan & Barbara Cok 5
Rider Educator– Barbara Cok 6
Membership Enhancement – Deborah Sciortino 7
Medic-First Aid – Janet Longhurst 8-9
Road to Wing Ding - Judy Metts 10-11
New Mexico/Colorado Combined Rally Registration 12
Mark Davis
Davis
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Leadership Teams
GWRRA
Name Position Email
Jere and Sherry Goodman Directors of GWRRA JereGood@aol.com
Bob and Nan Shrader Director's Assistant floridadd@msn.com
Tom and Renee Wasluck Director's Assistant tom.renee11@gmail.com
John & Shawn Irons Director's Assistant ironsline3414@gmail.com
Kevin Bramhoff & Karin Young Director's Assistant director@gwrra-nwc.com
Frank and Sharon Jackson Director's Assistant frankj64155@yahoo.com
Lorrie Thomas and Dan Clark Director of the University lorriemthomas@aol.com
Dan and Mary Costello Directors of Membership Enhancement mep.director.gwrra@gmail.com
James & Freida Clayson Directors of Motorist Awareness james.clayson@gmail.com
Randall and Janet Drake Director of Finance financedirector@gwrra.org
Susan & George Huttman Directors of Rider Ed director-re@gwrra.org
Allesandro Boveri & Mariarosa Bruzzone Directors Overseas alboveri@gmail.com
New Mexico District Team
Gary Smith & Tricia Warwick Gary Greenfield Walter Clement
(505) 463-0807 (505) 402-1672 (313) 675-1232
Gary GLS650@msn.com greenfieldgary3@gmail.com range1274@comcast.net
Trisha triciatalkn2ya@gmail.com
District Educator & Assnt Directors First Aid/Medic
Dan & Barbara H Cok Janet Longhurst
(505) 280-0710 (505) 459-0690
barbara@lobo.net janet.longhurst@comcast.net
Membership Enhancement Treasurer
Debbie & Tony Sciortino Margie Green
(716) 445-3579 (505) 250-7411
dsciortino.rr@gmail.com margie.green@comcast.net
Web Master Newsletter
Tom Evans Judy Metts
(732) 809-2184 (575) 736-1962 or 308-1002
evans@att.net jemetts@gmail.com
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Chapter Directory
TX- A1 W - Albuquerque
Monthly – 2nd Saturday @ 11:00 a.m. Monthly – 3rd Sunday @ 8:00 a.m.
Rudy's BBQ - 6401 S. Desert Blvd. El Paso Golden Corral 5207 San Mateo Blvd NE
Exit 8 off I—10 Gathering commences 8:45 a.m.
(570) 380-0093 (505) 329-4070
Glennie Payne Richard Mummey CD
range1274@comcast.net drwrcr688@msn.com
Web page: https://gwrratxa1.shutterfly.com/
F - Albuquerque D - Farmington
Monthly – 1st Saturday @ 8:30 a.m. Monthly – 2nd Saturday, @ 9:00a.m.
Golden Corral – 1701 Coors Blvd NW Golden Corral – 1715 E. Main
Dan & Barbara H Cok Gary Greenfield
(505) 280-0710 (505) 402-1672
barbara@lobo.net greenfieldgary3@gmail.com
Web page: https://gwrranmf.shutterfly.com/ Web page: https://gwrranmd.shutterfly.com/calendar
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Directors
Gary Smith & Tricia Warwick
ello to all GWRRA family and as we are swamped with things to do and I
H friends, it is time to celebrate!!! On
July 1st, our governor finally opened
the state up with no
think we need to wait until things cool down
some.
restrictions. Tricia and I immediately went Lastly, the Combined District Rally is a go
on a ride with Chapter F to Santa Fe where and we will be meeting on August 27th, 28th
we ate at Harry's Roadhouse. I had the and 29th. If you have not gotten your room
breakfast burrito with bacon and green or registered for the Rally, please do so as
chili. It was the best green chili burrito I rooms are filling up quickly. America is on
have ever had. Tricia took a taste, then the move and hotels are booking up. As for
another and another, so I know it was the Rally, the rooms have been completely
good. While there, we got to meet a new renovated, prices start at $99.00 per night,
member who lives in Santa Fe by the name we have an indoor pool with 2 Jacuzzi's,
of Bob Lennon. We had the opportunity to shuttles are available to take you to the
talk with Bob a few minutes before we all plaza, we have rider education classes
parted ways. Some went to the Santa Fe ski available, escorted rides to Taos and the
hill; Bob led the ride. And others had to Santa Fe Ski hill, wonderful breakfasts and
head home. It was wonderful to feel free dinners planned, a great speaker for
once again and I pray this freedom lasts. Saturday night, free parking with security
on site and so much more. Most
Now that the state is finally open, the importantly, the Rally provides us the
District will be conducting rides to opportunity to see each other and catch up
Farmington and Las Cruces to visit on all that has happened during the last
northern and southern Chapters. I hope year. We hope to see you all there!!
that you can join us as we take these rides to
see our dear friends in the north and
south. We have missed you all so much!! I
will be waiting until after the District Rally
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Assistant Directors
B
arbara and I recently drove to western Many of you have made your hotel reservations
South Dakota pulling a trailer to pick up for the NM / CO Rally, and some of you are still
two GL 1800 bikes. We were not sure trying to decide if you are going. The good news
how far we were going to be driving the first is the District Team was able to get the room rate
day, so had not committed to making a hotel at the Courtyard by Marriott for $99/night plus
reservation until we knew approximately where tax. After our recent trip to South Dakota, this
we were going to end up. Our goal was to be is an unbelievably low motel room rate. (Wish
able to meet up with Barbara’s brother and his we could have found a motel room at that rate.)
wife who were traveling from southern So, if you are on the fence trying to decide if $99
California to eastern South Dakota and were is a good price, I did some checking comparable
hoping our paths would cross to have a meal hotel rates in Santa Fe and the prices range from
together. Her brother told us to drive as far as $217 to $399 per night. So now, you need to hop
we could the first day to better our chances of off the fence and make that hotel reservation for
being able to meet up with them. Little did we the NM / CO Rally before August 12 when the
know how true that was going to be. We found rates will go up to the regular rates at the
out many people are traveling, and hotels were Courtyard by Marriott.
full. We expanded our radius of towns further
out to make our hotel reservation and it was
midnight by the time we arrived at our hotel. Looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe in
The good thing, the next morning we only had August.
168 miles to drive to our destination and were
able to meet with Barbara’s brother and his wife,
arriving 20 minutes apart at our meeting
location.
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Rider Educator
Barbara Cok
T
he District held an ARC class on Chris Boyle, Richard Mummey, Keith Rhodes
Saturday, July 17 in Albuquerque. Mike and Joan Moore. This ARC was the new ARC
Werner from Colorado and his assistant course presented at Wing Ding in Springfield,
Dorie came down to present the course. We had MO the end of June. All the riders learned
a new location for this ARC which worked out something new from this course that will make
great. Those attending were Gary Longhurst, their riding better.
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Membership Enhancement Coordinator
Deborah Sciortino
ummertime. A time to swelter in the heat. To wear your cool vests when riding. To
S wear them even when you’re not riding. To have a diet of ice cream 3 meals a day.
Summertime, time to enjoy some groaners (jokes) before you go, to put you in a happy
place to ride.
Groaners
Q: What does a bee do when it is hot? A: He takes off his yellow jacket!
Q: What happened after the mom purchased a loaf of bread from Albertsons? A: By the time
she got home it was toast!
Q: What do you need to visit Death Valley? A: Dental Records
Q: What do you call the Robin Williams movie about a hot California summer?
A: Mrs. Droughtfire.
Q: What did the air conditioning say to the man? A: I'm your biggest fan.
Q: What are the only two seasons in Phoenix, Arizona? A: Hot and Hotter
.
Q: How do heat lamps communicate? A: Lamppost
Q: What did the one pig say to the other at the beach? A: I'm bacon!
Q: Which is faster, heat or cold? A: Heat, because you can catch a cold!
How hot is it?
The cows are giving evaporated milk.
The chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs
You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
You can say 113 degrees without fainting.
The four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot and ARE YOU
KIDDING ME?!
You eat hot chilies to cool your mouth off.
Your dream house is any house in Alaska.
Hot water now comes out of both taps.
You learn that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.
The temperature drops below 95, you feel a bit chilly.
So Stay cool everyone.
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First Aid - Medic
Janet Longhurst Up, Up and Away
I’m sure you have all heard the news that 4,572 participants 904 were women, that’s
English businessman Sir Richard Branson 19.77% of the total. There were 67 Veterans
flew successfully up into space and back on involved and 95.69 % of the participants
July 11th from Spaceport America in New from around the World were in
Mexico. This was a first for a member of the Undergraduate programs, as you can see
public and flights are currently for sale for from the pie chart.
$250,000 a time.
The factoid machine I went on certainly was
We were lucky enough on my birthday this an experience, I managed to get to 2g before
year, in June to get a tour of Spaceport and I was done, so no space travel for me it
at that time we were told that Jeff Bazos would seem!
(Amazon guy) had a flight scheduled for
July 19th, but no announcement had been If you have the opportunity to visit the
made yet of Richard Bransons and we Spaceport America site, we very much
wanted him to beat Jeff, and he did! recommend it, at $50 per person it was the
YooHoo! best $50 each we’ve spent in a long time.
Congratulations New Mexico.
Spaceport America is located on 18,000
acres in the Jomada Del Muerto desert
basin in the shadow of the US Army White
Sands Missile Range. It resides within the
WSMR restricted airspace complex.
Spaceport America has both vertical and
horizontal launch complexes including a
12,000-foot x 200-foot runway. Part of our
tour was to drive on the runway, sit at
mission control and manhandle all the fire
departments equipment, as you can see
from the photographs! The first rocket
launch at Spaceport America occurred on
September 25th, 2006. Ground was broken
for the major facilities in 2009, and the first
phase of construction was completed in
2013. Up until 2019 there had been 301
rocket launches from Spaceport America.
Every year there is a Spaceport America Cup
held in the Summer. Not been held since
2019, due to COVID restrictions, but in
2019, 14 countries participated, and of the
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Spaceport America JJ 9
On the road to Wing Ding
Judy Metts
O
n June 26, dressed in full riding gear plus Thursday was a rainy day, so we just wandered
rain gear, we left Artesia and headed to around the vender booths. Friday, we enjoyed a
Dexter where we met Billie and Henry guided ride into Amish country where we stopped
Grimm to begin our three-day excursion to indulge in a wonderful homemade pastry at the
to Springfield Missouri. We rode through rain Ozarks Bake Shop. From there we rode through
showers, most of the day. After making a few Bennett State Park and back to Springfield. This
wrong turns, losing each other and fighting the ride took longer than they had planned and some
traffic in Amarillo we managed to find a Cracker of us got separated in Springfield but managed to
Barrel to eat lunch/dinner. We dislike interstates find our way back to the starting point. Others did
so try and avoid them if possible, so highway 60 not. We met Billie and Henry back at our hotel
was to be our route to Pampa. Somehow, we and went to the restaurant at the Bass Pro shop for
managed to miss the road to take us to highway 60 a combination lunch and dinner. We didn’t feel
so we continued on I-40 until we got to a sign that like getting back on our trikes for the parade so
said Pampa and headed north at that point. went back to the hotel and did laundry preparing
to start home the next day. Besides being tired our
We spent the night in Pampa then continued to trikes were dirty from all the rain and we didn’t
Ponca City Oklahoma which was our next feel like cleaning them up to make them parade
destination. Once again, we encountered rain worthy.
showers, so rain gear was the attire for the day.
We stopped for lunch in Fairview and just We were pretty much non-participants and Covid
happened to meet our friends Robert and Diane cautious during the week since we didn’t take
Boller from Chapter R in Phoenix. They were as classes, join in the evening dinners and
surprised to see us as we were to see them since entertainment, or attend the opening and closing
neither of us had seen another motorcycle on the sessions. However, we enjoyed meeting and
road from the beginning of our trip. They had visiting with others staying at our hotel. A
reservations in Bartlesville so after lunch comment made by one couple: “The entertainment
continued on their way. We found out later that the first night was very enjoyable. The second
they hit heavy rain and got drenched! We, night the music was so loud, we walked in and
however, had reservations in Ponca City so right back out”. We would have probably joined
managed to avoid it. We did have to make a short them in their exodus so didn’t feel bad about not
detour because of a truck accident on an underpass attending.
at the I-35 junction.
We started home Saturday morning and took
From Ponca City we rode north to highway 166 highway 60 from Springfield. We wanted to avoid
which is in Southern Kansas. It was a great road the Interstate tolls and see something other than
with very little traffic. We got on 1-44 at the traffic and trucks! We stayed in Enid Oklahoma
Missouri state line and experienced the horror of that night, and in Amarillo Sunday night. Home
Interstate traffic until we got to our hotel which on Monday.
was about 3 miles from the Convention center.
It was a great trip, very relaxing since we only
We attended the Welcome reception in the park went about 300 miles a day and it wasn’t hot! The
Tuesday night and spotted Tom and Lisa Evans. only incident was on our guided tour when one of
They were the only people we saw from New the members from Oregon who had a new Honda’s
Mexico although we heard there were others from with two wheels in front, came up on the pavement
TX-A1. Wednesday morning, we were scheduled at an angle. He hit one of the front tires on the edge
to work at the GWRRA store but succeeded in and laid it down. Luckily, they weren’t hurt, just
being late. Being unfamiliar with the area, we had a scrapped knee.
trouble finding parking. We worked our shift and
then browsed around the other vendor booths.
10The Wing Ding Adventure
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Henry needs help
with rain gear Flooding in Kansas John, Billie & Henry at the welcome party
The Welcome Party
Gathering for the guided ride
Amish Country
Bennett Springs Park
11New Mexico/Colorado Combined Rally
August 27-29, 2021
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Link to the Marriott https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/safcy-courtyard-
santa-fe/
Please ask to register under the event code "GWRN"
Phone -+1 888 236-2427
Courtyard by Marriott - Santa Fe, NM
Rooms are $99.00 and Suites are $119.00
Rally Registration via this link - http://gwrra-nm.org/Rally-Registration
For help or questions about the Rally please contact:
o Gary Smith, NM District Director, via Phone: (505) 463-0807
email gls650@msn.com
o Tricia Warwick phone: 505 204-8831
email: triciatalkn2ya@gmail.com
o Joyce Elmore, CO District Director, Phone 303 803-3748
email jelmore16@gmail.com
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