Mr. Wacky

I'm on vendor row, and for some reason, quite a few of the riders dropped drink cups, wrappings and misc garbage around my sunglass trailer all weekend long. After picking up at the end of each day, We spent an extra 10 minutes after hooking up Sunday policing the area around our site and picking up even more crap. I realize there aren't garbage cans out there, but please ask us and we'll take the wrappers and stuff off your hands as we have garbage bags in the trailer.

Bummer. I took the motorcycle safety course at Henderson Harley-Davidson and we used the Buells for the course safety track lessons. They seemed like decent bikes.

Since this is not my first recession, I'll pass on what I did. I made a decision in 1986, that I was through depending on a company or someone else for a job. And over th3 course of the next couple of years, started my own small business while at the same time continued working for a company. I worked seven days a week for two years and was in a position to walk away from the job. And I did. I also learned to never have all of your eggs in one basket, and to constantly reinvent your business. Be flexible and willing to change. If one source of customers is weak, then spread out into areas that you have not served before. Remember, even during the great depression, there were industries and workers that prospered. Find a job or spread your business into the areas least affected by the recession. I've bought two homes since 1996. And paid them both off. The best thing you can do for your families finances is pay off your house as soon as possible. If you have a 20-30 year mortgage, then go to a free internet site for loan amortization. Figure out how much additional money you need to pay each month to pay off the home in half the time. And then budget into your monthly bills that amount. If your payment is $1500 and by paying an additional $500 pays it off in half the time, then do it. Consider your new monthly payment to be $2000 and stick with it, Then in three years do this process all over again. That's what I did on the first home and I paid it off in seven years. On the second home, we put down a big down payment...1/3 and payed of the home in five years. Is this hard? No, you do however need to get off your a$$ and work harder. but the rewards far outweigh that problem. Henry Ford was the first to propose a 40 hour work week and for some reason, most Americans believe a 8 hour work day for 5 days is their obligation to society and their families. What a crock. Spend anopther two hours each day working for the boss or go find a part time job for another 20 hours a week. And you can still sand dune. You just won't waste 20 hours a week in front of the boob tube. Pay cash for everything but the big items and then pay them off before the interest kicks in and cost you more dough. Buy clothing and other items off the internet. I buy pants that are American made from American made material. Sure they are more expensive then Wal-Mart. But they last yfor years longer. And the internet sites often include free shipping and no sales tax. To me all a recession does is force me to stretch a little.

I read about the haunted house in the Pahrump paper. the article said it will be at the old race track and then Dumont Dunes for Halloween. I was on the phone with Larry from the BLM. and he confirmed the sotry. He also said the rock climb will be there too thins season. Vampires and gooblins in the desert? :ah:

Hi gang, We'll be out there with our new Sunglass trailer. I'm parking the red one that weekend ( it's still full of sand from last spring). We'll have a couple of swoop flags that read Sunglasses, so you can't miss us. We've also added a ton of new stuff...gloves, masks, cold weather head wear, Etc....in other words we listened to your product requests from the past two seasons. And we have the new transition lenses in both googles and sunglasses at a better price than before. I spent hours doing research. Stop by and say hi. Dwight and Betsy from Pahrump.--the sunglass guy. :beer_bang:

I'll be there with the sunglass trailer....and beer. Oh...and will be working, and drinking beer.

Great pictures guys.............

Those who didn't make it missed perfect weather. Light wind and perfect riding conditions. I talked to a few who extended their stay a day. The high Saturday was 81 in my trailer. You don't get better January weather than that. The week end crowd was off considerable from last MLK weekend. I talked to a ranger and he said they are considering dropping MLK and Easter from the list of regular events.

Yep. I'll be out there fri-sun.

My first post.... I registered for this forum over a year ago when I was considering going out there, and then just plain forgot about it. A guy mentioned it to me last week, so I goggled it up spent time trying to find my user name, and here I am. I might know some of you as I have the red sunglass trailer on vendor row. I know I talk to hundreds of people every day I'm out there. The wife and I headed out there on Tuesday. The crowds were better than the Christmas week. I wish I could take off into the dunes like you guys as I'm stuck during these busy weekends working the trailer. New Years eve fireworks and rockets had the three pups barking half the night, so I only got about three hours sleep. But what the heck, everybody was having fun. I was happy to see the day time temperatures creep up as it was freezing out there at times...at least for these old bones. The wind is usually my enemy as it covers everything in the trailer with dust. Speaking of wind..Saturday the wind began howling pretty good. We had planned on staying through Sunday, but my internet connection told me that the weather was not going to be either warm or cozy Saturday night or Sunday. So we packed up and headed back home to Pahrump at 3PM. I wasn't the only one exiting as there were quite a few rigs heading out at the same time. One poor fool blew past me and the ranger checkpoint without bothering to show his pass I guess. Because he was pulled over by the rangers with lights flashing before reaching the highway. Then on the other hand, maybe he was pulled over for speeding. The access road was better than I saw it anytime this season. I usually creep along with the motorhome and trailer on the access road. We're going to head out there on MLK weekend and see if it is any better than last year. The weather was poor last year if i remember right and crowds rather thin. Dwight