Now you're getting it, take a look at your first photo and your last photo Let me know if you need anything done, I could probably chop out the truck if you really needed it, but it's not going to look super awesomemegasauce
That looks good with the white stroke, bring Ohio a little closer to Riders though. You may want to try adding a little (LITTLE) drop shadow to the text layer, basically you probably want to bring it out from the background just a little.
Good man! Just remember, less is more. A good friend of mine (happens to be a professional graphic designer) gave me this advice once. "Take it to the absolute minimum you think accomplishes your goal... then reduce it more" Very good advice when it comes to photoshop.
We're totally threadjacking thirdgen's thread The Dragon's Rest cabins (http://www.dragonsrestcabins.com/), Fonzie and some of the other folks are staying at the Philips.
As Bad said... we know we're staying in Robinsville... beyond that everything's kind of "up for grabs"... it's the DTC anniversary ride. Dragon and Cherahola for sure, beyond that I'm sure you could convince the gang http://www.dtc4lyfe.com/deals-gap-dtc-5th-anniversary-40th-bday-extravaganza-t414.html