Dave is still cogitating on the idea, he hates them long long drives just to get to the riding part .....

And now he has quantified why we get such concentrated enjoyment out of the NC mountain runs --- more FUN per mile than anywhere else in the world.

  ...........   ???

And he bought his Garmin so he won't have to gratefully kiss the pavement, ever again.

springman wrote on 09/24/15 at 08:32:22:


I've been following the discussion about the Twisted Sisters run on this thread.

Yes.. I like the idea of having as many as wants to come to actually make the trip.

I'll do all I can to make it as much fun for everyone.. without getting in any-body's way of doing what they want.

I can do recon before the trip if you want camping areas looked at.

You want a ride leader?  I can do that.  And I don't need any maps or GPS.  I know this area.. very well.
If you have places/roads you would like to see?  Let me know, and I'll get it on the route I'm taking.  Otherwise, I just go where I want and you follow.
You want to go faster than I am?  Not a problem.. I know I am not the most skilled rider around.  Go on ahead and stop if you come to a corner and wait for me.. and I'll point which way to go next.

You just want a route that you can follow on a map or your GPS?  I can do that, and point out places you may want to stop or eat.  

Or put together a route of your own, and I can look it over if you want.. make suggestions which you are welcome to use, or not.

I do suggest you get a Hill Country Butler Map or GPS, especially if you want to explore on your own.  Texas is... big.. and not as many roads per square mile as NC/TN.  Take a look at two separate windows of Google maps at the same scale of the two areas.  Very different.

So.. come on down ya'll!!  You will be welcome!  

The roads that the bearded one took us on were clean even though it rained the day before.  Some roads were so clean they still had a few inches of water across them.  

All the critters were behind fences.  

And only the log sawing competition got outta hand.  

Well Oldfeller. We did have to ford a stream on our hill country ride. I think MM has some pictures of it. And if you saw the video of the guy riding his dirt bike in the ocean, well, not to make the guy feel bad, but our water ride was much more exciting. Heck, we had alligators to the left, cotton mouths on the right, couple of mountain lions behind us and a herd of buffalo in front of us. But heck, this is Texas, that's just an everyday ride in the hill country.

Come on down, we'll get you some stories fro you grand children.

You mean this video?

Now listen up, you ignorant Easterner fellers,  if you are going too fast and you have to ditch it, try to hit these fat chubby cacti rather than these long needle pointy cacti --- these long stiff pointy suckers will poke slam through your leg if you hit them at any speed at all --- plus their juice is slightly poisonous if it gets into your blood stream.  

People can die from this long pointy kind as you are easy a hundred miles from the nearest hospital where we are right now.   Puncture a major artery or vein and you won't get there in time.  

Now the soft chubby kind just leave a bunch of painful needles stuck in you that a doctor has to remove pretty quick like before they get all infected.   It'll hurt, but it won't kill you.

It's good on road rash friction burns though, if you have some of those -- aloe you know.

Well, did you know that the gulf coast is on the way to Texas if you go by the south route?

We could come down and see you, then continue onwards on the great trek.