Thunder Roads Magazine of Oklahoma/Arkansas June 2014 | Page 41

looked up to Jessi’s talents and felt it was time for her too, to follow her dream of fabricating metal. We hope to see the two of them welding side by side at the 2015 summit! As is the case with every great ride, we had to wrap it up and end it with a two day ride back home. It was so much fun to sit the last night around the table and listen to the girls laughing and sharing their ideas, friendships and experiences. Some magical experience called sisterhood had bound them closely together. Not a one of them were going home the same as they were when they left Oklahoma five days earlier. shoulder with tightly locked arms and warm hearts. I remember saying in the prayer, “let us not ever forget the strength we possess as a sisterhood when we go our separate ways. We are only separated by mileage, but forever bound by spirit of the Steel Horse Sisterhood.” As I said many times on the trip, “there’s no more direct path to a woman’s soul than riding handlebar to handlebar, 80 mph, down life’s highway with like minded women”. We may have ended this ride, but we have not stopped the journey. Our photographer, Sarah, was so inspired she bought a bike and enrolled in a basic rider course upon arrival home. Post ride, our chase truck driver observed a photo taken on the first morning of us all in a circle for our prayer which we were more than an arm’s length apart. The last morning which we stood in that circle for our prayer, we were standing shoulder to FEATURES Join us in 2015 as we travel again from Oklahoma to Loveland, CO for the 2nd Annual Steel Horse Sisterhood June 11-14. For more information, go to www. steelhorsesisterhood.com. Watch for registration details right here in Thunder Roads Magazine OK/AR or wwwtrmok. com. Thunder Roads Magazine of OK/AR 41