Overnighter – Harrison, AR

We’re a month away from leaving on our Overnighter! Who’s excited! This girl is! 🙋‍♀️
Please be sure to read this entire post.
Departure time: 7:30 am with kickstands up at 8:00 am
Departure location: The QuikTrip in Derby on Rock Rd. 2801 N. Rock Rd. This is NOT the QuikTrip we normally meet at in Derby, so please make sure you go to the right one.
Lead Riders: Donna Crays and Kari Miller.
Sweep Riders: Cindy McGuire and Tina Callender
Dinner: A restaurant will be selected for Friday and Saturday nights. When that’s been done, I’ll update this Event.
Hotel: Super 8 by Wyndham – 1330 N. Highway 62/65. There is an outdoor pool, so pack a bathing suit!
Activities: Ride of course! The advantage of Arkansas is everywhere you go is a beautiful ride. Following is a list of options. I’m also including a website link to a brochure which gives you the routes, the time it takes to do the ride, gas options and other helpful information for each of the rides. What you will need to do is sometime before we leave for the trip, review this list and have an idea of what you would like to do. At dinner on the Friday night we are in Harrison, we will group people together who are interested in the same destination, with the understanding that if no one else is interested in what you want to do, you will need to join a different group. PLEASE take the time to look at the website in advance!
For those who may decide that it’s too hot or you’re not up to riding on Saturday, there are some cute boutiques in Harrison that you could visit, or you can hang out by the pool.
Ride Options:
Bull Shoals Dam Route
Eureka Springs and the Backroads
Jasper Disaster
Mountain View Run
Ozark Moonshine Run (Maureen!)
Peel Ferry Route
The Lost Mine Run
Twisted Lady
Triple B Backroads Route
Here is the website:
www.exploreharrison.com
Scroll down and there will be a motorcycle category. Click on that to find the rides and details.
I know you’ve already indicated to Kathryn if you’re going on the Overnighter for hotel purposes. You will still need to click Going on the Facebook Event so we have an accurate headcount for restaurants, etc. The sooner the better!
I’m looking forward to a great Overnight trip with you all!
MEOW!

One Ride – Two Towns – June 10, 2023

It was a beautiful day for a ride! Eleven Kitties met at the QT at 21st and K96.
 
We had a guest rider today. Susan brought her friend, Dally (Dallas). Kari said it would be great if she joined our club we could call her “Dilly.”  Obviously I got a kick out of that. Lol
 
Unfortunately, poor Maureen’s battery died after getting gas. Melaina and Brenda stayed back with her as they waited on Christine’s husband, Dorrin, to come to the rescue. I’m not positive on all the details of how everything worked out. All I know is we were happy to see the three of them roll into the parking lot of Genova’s safely.
 
Sheryl took lead on this 4-hour ride. From east Wichita to Council Grove with a quick gas up, then went back the way we came and dropped south to Newton from Cassoday. She did a phenomenal job getting all of us to our destination! Thank you, Sheryl. Donna swept and was helpful on the way to Genova’s when Dilly’s glasses went flying down the road. Luckily, they found them and were able to catch up quickly!
 
Genova’s had our back area ready for us. We walked in and was instantly greeted with “Kitties, how was your ride? It’s good to see you!” from our favorite waitress.
Kathryn, Bobbie, Stella, Cina and Tina met us at the restaurant.
 
Did I mention it was a beautiful day for a ride? Just making sure. ☺️ It actually got a little chilly during our ride, but we were so thankful the rain stayed away.
We definitely missed our club photographer!
 
Thank, you ladies, for a wonderful day!
 
Submitted by Jennifer
KKMC Member
 

Tink’s Farewell Dinner

Please join us in bidding Tink (Bobbie Cole) farewell as she begins the next chapter of her life. She’s officially going to be a full-time beach bum on South Padre Island, Texas!
She’s promising to return to Wichita to attend several KKMC rides a year, so this isn’t goodbye, it’s a “see ya later.”
Please RSVP by Sunday, August 6th, so I can turn in a firm reservation. I have a private room booked so we can be loud and proud!
Hope to see lots of Kitties there!

July Meow Mixer – Pumphouse

NEW PLAN FOR THE JULY MEOW MIXER! Due to the extremely hot weather tomorrow, we will not be going to the Sedgwick County Zoo.
Please plan to meet us at the Pumphouse in Old Town at 6:00 pm for an INDOOR dinner. Meow Mixers are always a drive or ride event. I would recommend driving!
It is critical that you RSVP immediately so we can confirm the reservations with the restaurant. Don’t delay, do it now! 😻
See you tomorrow!

July Road Trip – Wilson, KS

Meeting location: QuikTrip in Park City – 928 E. 61st St. North
Meeting time: 8:00 am with kickstands up at 8:30 am.
Distance: 129 miles one way from the departure location.
Lunch: Made from Scratch
What you need to bring: Cash for the 50/50 drawing (six tickets for $5.00.)
Lead Riders: Cindy McGuire and Nellie Taylor
Sweep Riders: Donna Crays and Tina Callender.
I will post the step-by-step directions to the restaurant a day or two before the ride.
RSVP: Please indicate if you are Going or Not Going by no later than end of day Thursday, July 13th,

Tutu Cute! – May 21, 2023

All the Kitties were TUTU excited for our ride today! 19 Kitties arrived at the QT looking their fanciest and ready for a beautiful day of riding.
 
Tina immediately hopped off her bike upon arrival with her notepad and pen taking attendance! She took her job very seriously, Queenie!
 
Christine huddled us up to go over the ride, weather, and of course, lead us in our riding prayer. She introduced herself to our newcome, Cina, as “Bossy Pants.” She kind of lived up to it today, but in a GREAT way! Thank you, Glitter, for always keeping us safe and informed.
 
Kim took her maiden voyage as lead rider today. She led eight Kitties safely to our destination, with Frogger (Donna) as her sweep. I know for a fact she couldn’t get lost because I mapped the directions on Google maps and sent them to her while I was at her house last night. Then I gave her a sedative and told her it will all be ok! You did great, Lol Pibble!!
 
We got word that Deborah was in route after having trouble with her bike. I may or may not have frowned a little. having studied the map and knowing it better than the back of my hand. Deborah made it just in the knick of time and fell in the back of the line quickly. Deborah, you made my day!! I’m sorry you had so many troubles with your bike, but we’re so glad you made the ride! So, with me (on my maiden voyage as lead rider as well) leading the second group, we rode off. We did get a little off course since Stephanie got a little antsy with the gas stop. I’m sorry, Steph, I had to. LOL! We arrived at the ASSIGNED gas stop right as the first group was leaving, so I guess we still made great time. Tina ran sweep for the second group.
 
Kathryn and Danielle, along with her father, met us when we all arrived at Dave’s Pizza Oven in Coldwater, KS. They were super quick getting our orders and getting them out to us. I think we were all impressed at how quick it went. Great choice Excursion Officers! Christine and Melaina had to leave early so Christine could make it to a graduation, so we decided to take our group pic before our food got to the table. I had to wrangle Tina from passing out Kitty loot to the patrons. You’ll see in the pics that we literally just landed where we could in the group photo. 
 
The Northern Kitties scampered off and the rest of us all took off shortly after. Some of us decided to take another route home and ran into a bridge that was out. We took a short detour and made our way back on course.
 
We missed our Queenie. Janice, you would be proud of your litter for being on top of their jobs you assigned them!
 
Stephanie, thank you as always for capturing the best pictures and making us look MEOWvelous!
 
Submitted by Jennifer (Nightingale)
KKMC Member

June Road Trip – Council Grove with Dinner in Newton

The June Road Trip begins with a ride to Council Grove and will end with a dinner.
Meeting location: The QuikTrip at 12825 E. 21st St.
Meeting time: 12:30 pm with kickstands up at 1:00 pm.
Distance: 87 miles one way from the departure location. There will be a gas stop in Council Grove.
Dinner: Genova Italian Restaurant
What you need to bring: Cash for the 50/50 drawing (six tickets for $5.00.)
Lead Riders: Nellie Taylor and Sheryl Pennington
Sweep Riders: Donna Crays. I need a second volunteer please!
RSVP: Please indicate if you are Going or Not Going by no later than end of day Thursday, June 8th.
MEOW!

International Female Ride Day – May 6, 2023

We could not have ordered up a better day to celebrate International Female Ride Day! Abundant sunshine, super warm temperatures with a little wind, but not too bad. After lots of chatting time, even more pictures taken at the QuikTrip and everyone “buttoned up” with Krome Kitty custom made IFRS buttons, we biked up and took the scenic route to El Dorado. 
 
Stephanie made her debut Lead Ride and she did GREAT leading the first group right to the door of True Lies Ranch Hand and Steakhouse, with Donna serving as Sweep. Kari led the second group, with Tina providing Sweep. We all poured into the restaurant and kept the sole waitress, who did an awesome job, hopping with drink and food orders. For the return trip home, it was agreed that Kari and Stephanie would lead one group the “fun” way home and I would lead a group the “fast” way home.
 
Everything went textbook perfect today….with two mishaps. Pat’s bike battery decided today was the day to take its last gasp and left her stranded at the QuikTrip at Ridge Rd. and 21st St. She called her Tom Kat, Larry, who picked her up on his trike and they dropped by to see us off on the way to Twister City to get a new battery. What we didn’t know until much later is this ended up being an all day battery installation. In their “let’s make this as difficult as possible” wisdom, Harley Davidson decided to change the location for the battery with lots of bits and parts to have to remove and more than a few cuss words!
 
The second mishap required some creativity and a lot of duct tape! Brenda lost the solitary screw that held her entire dash onto her bike. With the assistance of a LOT of bright red duct tape, the dash was held securely in place to get Brenda through the ride. Now to get that screw replaced.
 
THANK YOU to the Leads and Sweeps for getting us to El Dorado and back safe and sound!
 
THANK YOU to Pat and Larry for mapping out the scenic route for us!
 
THANK YOU to our Club Photographer, Stephanie, and secondary Club Photographer, Kim, for taking oodles of great shots! These posts would be very boring without your pictures!
 
THANK YOU to all the Kitties who took time out of your day to celebrate International Female Ride Day! You all make being a female and a rider so much fun! 

May Meow Mixer and International Female Ride Day

May 6th is International Female Ride Day so LET’S RIDE!

Meeting location: The QuikTrip at 61st St. and 135 in Park City – 928 E. 61st St. S.

Meeting time: 10:00 am with kickstands up at 10:30 am.

Lunch: True Lies Ranch Hand Cafe and Steakhouse. We will take be taking the back roads and will not be on highway 254.

What to bring: Cash for the 50/50 drawing ($5.00 for six tickets.) Also, several years ago, I passed out KKMC International Female Ride Day buttons. If you still have yours, be sure to wear it. For those who are new or those who can’t find your button, I’ll bring a supply. I’m including a picture as a reminder of what you’re looking for.

Ride or Drive: Meow Mixers are always a ride or drive event. I understand people may be coming from something else or have to go somewhere after, so don’t let being in a car stop you from attending.

Lead Riders: Stephanie Cole and Lily Nordyke.

Sweep Riders: I need two volunteers please!

I will post the route directions a day or two before the ride. Stephanie and Lily, I’ll get the route to you asap.

RSVP: Please RSVP by  by Thursday, May 4th.

MEOW!

❤️👑

Kar Kitties – April 22, 2023

 

Whenever we have to switch gears and go by car, I ALWAYS am second guessing myself the morning of. This morning was no different. As soon as I woke up, I looked outside and the sun was starting to shine and the second guessing began. “Could we have ridden today?” “Is it really that cold out?” It only took about 60 seconds of standing in the QuikTrip parking lot for all my second guessing to be put to rest. It was flipping cold and windy! So cold and windy, in fact, that the small group I was chatting with and I collectively decided to high tail it into the store, where all of the Kitties stayed until it was departure time. I wish we could have been on motorcycles, but if we made the decision to not ride, then it darn well better have been for a good reason and it definitely was.

We all, with the exception of Dawn, Angel and Donna who drove directly to the restaurant and Sherri and Stella, who stayed in their car, gathered around near the door of the QuikTrip. We occasionally allowed customers to enter and exit and get drinks from the fountain area. There were several police officers who threaded their way through our large group and I held my breath each time, hoping they weren’t going to shoo us outside with a stern warning to stop loitering inside the store. They didn’t. Whew!

Jennifer sold 50/50 tickets and devised a new and improved way of handling the tickets and money at the same time. That’s what you call being smart and creative Nightingale! 

With everyone present and accounted for and everyone previously grouped in vehicles, we “carred up” and headed to Durham, KS. The one advantage of being in cages, other than being toasty warm, was getting the opportunity to have lots of chatting time. I thoroughly enjoyed the company of the ladies in my carpool and I’m sure the other Kitty Karloads felt the same.

We all arrived safely at Main Street Cafe and were united with Dawn, Angel and Donna. Christine had brought the safety items we had made for the Cars and Coffee events and it was like a feeding frenzy of Kitties grabbing items to pass out at work and other opportunities to share the “Watch for Motorcycles” message. At the time we were doing this, there were only two gentlemen in the restaurant so I grabbed two koozies and two eyeglass cleaning cloths and interrupted their meal with my spiel of we are a female motorcycle club and we would love for them to help spread our message. They gladly accepted the gifts and one of the gentlemen even asked for a yard sign and said he would proudly display it in his yard. The other one said he would, but he lived in the middle of nowhere and no one would ever see it. That’s fair.

We ordered food, we ordered more food, we ate, some ate pie before their meal (brilliant move!), we chatted, we made the wait staff earn every single penny of their tips and we enjoyed each other’s company, as always.

Dawn had previously told me that we were only a few miles from the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, so I announced to the group for anyone who wanted to make a stop to possibly spot bison or elk on their way home, this was a great opportunity.

Jennifer was ready to pull the winning ticket and there was such a hullabaloo about no fair if Janice wins, I think it’s rigged if Janice wins, I refuse to buy tickets again if Janice wins that I promised if my ticket was drawn, we would have a redraw. I didn’t say I PINKY promised, so would I have really?? 😂 Well, we’ll never know because my ticket was not drawn. Pat was the lucky winner of $63.00!

We all gathered outside for the group picture and just as Stephanie was getting ready to rig up a remote control camera on the hood of Dawn’s car, a very nice, very tall gentlemen intercepted and said how about I take the picture? Yeah, how about you do that? He even told us to say Here Kitty Kitty! I loved that he saw our shirts and said that!

THANK YOU to all those who joined us on a Kitty Ride that turned into a Kitty Drive! I was concerned we would lose a bunch of people when we switched to cars, but only three Kitties had to cancel for other reasons. ❤️

THANK YOU to all those who raised their hands and offered to be a driver! We all appreciate you using your car, your gas to do that for us! ❤️

And of course, THANK YOU to our Club Photographer, Stephanie, for once again, making sure she got all of us in a picture. You’re the best BadA$$! ❤️

Those on board for the “Kar Kitties” drive were Janice, Brenda, Lily, Nellie, Kristi, Stella, Melaina, Pat, Tina, Alice, Bobbie, Stephanie, Kari, Kim, Christine, Julie, Donna, Jennifer P., Sherri, Diane, Dawn, Angel and Cindy.

Janice

Founder – KKMC