The 2011 Schedule of Events is as follows:
Tentative Schedule of Events
1000 Registration opens
Register, donate what you can, receive wrist band to enter the Naval Base
STAGE 1: Celebration of Freedom
1000 Gates open at Naval Base Ventura County - Pt. Mugu
1100 Bands begin
1130 Bring cash for hot dogs and hamburgers
1230 Ride briefing
1300 Pt. Mugu Memorial Service begins with 3 minutes of silence,
guest speakers, military color guard, anthem and flyover.
1400 Dismiss to bikes
1415 KSU
STAGE 2: Appreciation of America
1415 Bikes leave in groups of 500 on a full escorted ride through the
fields of Oxnard and Hidden Valley to the canyons of Malibu.
1525 Bikes begins to arrive at Pepperdine University.
STAGE 3: In Memoriam
1600 Pepperdine's Memorial at 2,977 full-size American and International flags -
one for each innocent life taken on that day. Processional of
first responders led by bagpipes. Deena Burnett Bailey, widow
of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett will speak. Finishing with
another military flyover and Amazing Grace.
1700 Adjourn
The Pepperdine Heroes Garden is open to all bikers VIA SHUTTLE - motorcycles will not be permitted around campus, only in the parking area. There will be shuttles to take people up to the very top of campus to the Heroes Garden.