Join us at the Cubi Bar Cafe saturday may 19th at noon. The location is at www.navalaviationmuseum.org in Pensacola Florida. This is the home base for the Blue Angels. If you want to get there early in the week they have there practice on tue & wed. I plan on having a guided group tour of the museum so I will need a head count a few weeks out
I'll be riding down on friday. Any recommendations on motels near the museum ?. I'll be calling motels in the next few days to get something set up.
You will need to go to the web site & look up the requirements to ride a motorcycle on the base to the museum or I'll post them later.
I'm leaning towards the Quality Inn. I'm hoping someone will jump in with a recommendation. I'll probably only wait a week. because lot of the hotels already don't have that many rooms available.
That looks like a good one to me too. I like the "out side" access to your room so you can park at your door( if your down stairs).
The link below has all hotels near the base If anyone wants to chime in with a better Hotel.
My first two choices are in a high crime area. I will be staying here www.bestwestern.com/blueangelinn It's on exit seven on Interstate I-10. The price was a little more but I feel it's worth it for a better area.
Dave, I will try to make this ride as this is one of my favorite museums.
Type NAS Pensacola, Fl. into Google Maps & you will get a list of motels in the area
as well as a view of the airstation, Museum is mis-labeled as Marine Corps Matainance
Bldg. its the only Bldg. with an F4 on a pedestal out-front on Blue Angels Drive.
Hey guys, been awhile - was it the meet at the Mighty 8th?? River Ranch here in FL? Anyway, I'm planning to attend. Now look at the motel offerrings. Would ride up Fri, back on Sun.
Just to give more clarification about riding onto a military base, this is what DOD requires for anyone to ride onto base. I don't want anybody to get turned around or stopped at the gate because they don't have the right PPE. Although some bases are more laid back than others and don't fully enforce the rules.
-DOT certified helmet
-Full face shield/shatter resistent goggles (however I ride onbase every day in oakley sunglasses without an issue and so does every one else)
-Long sleeve shirt or jacket
-gloves
-full length pants
-over the ankle boots
One other thing, you have to have some sort of brightly colored high vis garment on your upper body. So either a road guard vest, brightly collored riding jacket, or even a white long sleeve shirt meets the rules.
For some reason the motel link is not working so I'm posting it again www.bestwestern.com/blueangelinn Ok it's still not working on this site for some reason.
Here is the info.
Best Western Motel
2390 W. Detroit Blvd.
Pensacola Florida 32534
850-477-7474
Jean and I will depart greater Hazel Green around 8 am and after taking lesser highways (no interstates except for 30 miles of I-10) we should arrive at the hotel around 4pm.
OK. We will be there two nights and we plan on hitting this place either Friday or Saturday night, so who is in for McGuire's for dinner Friday? http://www.mcguiresirishpub.com
After I packed the bike last night NOW you tell me to take pic's. I'll see if I can cram a camera in there somewhere.
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