A Sea of Motorcycles
I mentioned in my last post that Sturgis Bike Week was coming upon us. And it has. We are in all-hands-on-deck mode with daily 7:00 am briefings and the day's work assignments. Cyndee and I drew Visitor Center duty for the entire day, leaving the professional rangers to crowd control and in-park contact. One thing we learned during the morning briefings that somewhat shocked us was that the expected crowd was going to be a bit smaller and tamer this year. It was explained that the biking crowd was "aging out". Their advancing age has made them less mobile and more chill. I guess their analysis was spot on. The number of trikes was amazing and it was shocking to see the number of canes and walkers strapped to the bikes. There were a bunch of these bikers that could barely walk across the parking lot to the Visitor Center! In our briefings we were warned not to agree to taking pictures with biker visitors because of past problems with ...