If you can’t get enough of that BBQ flavour, or want to pick up some tips on how to cook the best BBQ food this could just be the event for you!
2nd to 5th October 2008 sees the 29th occurrence of the largest BBQ contest in the world with some 500 teams competing. Contestants have to cook 10 pounds of meat (beef, pork or lamb) and are awarded marks out of 10 for their efforts.
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Now here’s one for all you Western aficionados – or would be cowboys! Step back in time and experience what the old west was really like, with many folk dressed in period costume to give an authentic feel to the events.
Held on this year on 20th - 23rd August 2008 at Kanab USA it’s jammed packed with everything fans of the wild west could only dream of seeing – and participate in.
Experience 3 days on a WAGON TRAIN….this starts at Alton Utah at 6.00pm on 20th August and gives a 3 days and 2 nights of a true western experience with dinners served around the campfire, ride in one of the wagons or ride a horse – for full details and prices check out the web site at http://www.westernlegendsroundup.com
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This annual event has just started (for 2008 runs from 4th to 13th July). It attracts some of the biggest rodeo stars as the event has the biggest one day prize in pro rodeo - $1m (Canadian) on ‘Showdown Sunday’ has gained a reputation as rodeo’s richest afternoon.
There are rodeos held on each of the 10 event days with $60,000 (Canadian) prize money daily ($10,000 per event – bareback, bull riding, barrel racing, saddle bronc, steer wrestling and tie-down roping).
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I really like Palm Springs. I visited in 2001 on a tour of California and some of the great national parks en route from LA. By pure coincidence we arrived in town on a week-end when there was a Motor Bike rally in town sometime in October which admittedly added a different dimension to the place.
We were lucky to find rooms as most hotels and motels were booked for the rally, which is an annual event called ‘American Heat – Palm Springs Motorcycle and Hot rod weekend’. In the centre of town there were the most amazing customised Harleys and other bikes with fantastic paint jobs to admire (and I am not remotely a bike fan) but they were items of beauty. There seemed to be bands playing on every street corner and some great stalls for picking up fringed leather and suede jackets, waistcoats and trousers, but of course that is not the real Palm Springs. I would definitely go back when the rally is on.
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The majority of naturist resorts are seasonal, think of Europe and the only time to bare all is in the summer months. The Caribbean has its hurricane seasons when you frequently get more drenched that suntanned.
For a year round resort where sun is the order of the day – every day – visit the beautiful resort of Palm Springs, The Terra Cotta Inn to be precise.
This naturist paradise is owned and operated by the founding owners – unlike other impersonal large resorts who are just interested in keeping their shareholders happy. What the owners at the Terra Cotta want to offer, and do, is a personal service with guests returning year after year to visit them, in fact 75% of the bookings are for repeat guests – that sums it up and says it all! It’s a clothing optional resort, so if you feel ‘shy’ when you arrive you certainly don’t have to ‘bare all’, though from what I understand the majority of the residents do succumb to the freedom that naturism brings. It’s a couples only resort (no single men), relaxing – and with no wild parties, just the true spirit of Naturism with none of the sometimes ‘tacky side’ that can occur in other resorts.
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