| I love it when the fall comes to Florida and things | | | | scantly clad ‘Wild Turkey Girls’ walking |
| start to cool down. Everyone is ready to get | | | | around Dirty Harry’s with trays of either Turkey |
| outdoors and enjoy all the fairs and festivals that | | | | shots or turkey and coke, handing them out. Every |
| occur this time of year. One of my favorite such | | | | where you look there are girls in booths calling to you |
| events is Biketoberfest. Every year in October | | | | to came buy a drink or shot and let’s just say |
| Daytona Beach becomes, once again, a Mecca for | | | | it’s a goo thing it’s been fairly warm these |
| motorcycle enthusiast. Biketoberfest is shorter than | | | | last couple of Octobers or they would have been |
| Bike week, it’s held over a long weekend, and | | | | very cold. Dirty Harry’s is a pretty popular place |
| it’s just as fun and interesting. I’ve lived in | | | | they have a lot of bikini contests there two or three |
| Florida for over 20 years now and have taken | | | | a day and then at night it’s the main event |
| pictures of Biketoberfest several times; last year was | | | | contests and lets just say that after a day in the sun |
| the first time however that we stay over. We | | | | of drinking and partying most of the girls are in a |
| booked our room early so it was very reasonably | | | | pretty uninhibited place and open to the Emcee's |
| priced I think that’s key; get room early number | | | | suggestions which as you can imagine get wilder as |
| one so there are rooms available but two so you can | | | | the night goes on. |
| get a deal before the rates go up. There are a lot of | | | | Some other places to stop by on Main Street are |
| rooms up and down the famous Daytona Strip but | | | | Froggy’s Saloon, Cruisin Café which is on the |
| remember there are going to be over an estimated | | | | corner of A1A and Main Street an ideal spot to |
| 150,000 bike and bikers there so the sooner you can | | | | watch the happenings. The Hogs Breath Saloon is a |
| book the better. So once you get there you have to | | | | local favorite all year round and the Bank & |
| head to Main Street there are a few other places to | | | | Blues Club has two stories so you can people watch |
| have fun but party central is definitely Main Street, | | | | from upstairs and enjoy the rock and roll downstairs. |
| it’s the main drag and still the best place to | | | | The building is actually an old bank that’s been |
| watch all the bikes and people going by. The first | | | | ‘reformed’. Bruce Rossmeyer’s |
| night of Biketoberfest there are several places to go | | | | Biketoberfest at Destination Daytona in nearby |
| called welcome centers where you can pick up a | | | | Ormond Beach is fast becoming a big part of |
| complete schedule of all events, activities and a lot of | | | | Biketoberfest too. The have a huge showroom of |
| other information. One of the first places we went | | | | bikes and during the fest that place transform into a |
| when we got there was to the world famous | | | | virtual bikers village. They too have contests, food, |
| Daytona Speedway. The Speedway hosts several | | | | live music day and night, girls in booths offering beer |
| events including several bike races and swap meets; | | | | and booze, people and bikes everywhere. Another |
| there is always something going on in the vast | | | | place that’s becoming very popular is the |
| parking area there people buy and selling all sorts of | | | | Cabbage Patch Bar in nearby Samsula. They have all |
| things from t-shirt to tires. Some 2500 vendors or so | | | | the usual t-shirt and hot buns contest but their |
| are there any given year with loads of things to give | | | | becoming kind of famous for something a little |
| away. | | | | different – coleslaw wrestling. This place gets wild |
| Last year when we were there they had these | | | | and it’s a lot of fun. |