Hill Country Ride V - 2002
Departure was on Coit Road and
Belt Line on Thursday morning. This was my first shot at mapping out a
group route and as LOTR. There was Fergy, Tim and Lois Hargis and
myself. We rode I-20 over to I-35W and then down to Tx 174, a horrible
stretch of road from Burleson to Cleburne. After that we had a great ride down
through Clifton and down to Gatesville, where we met Old and Slash at a great
cafe for lunch. Great ride down FM 581 and FM 501 to Cherokee and then on in to
Fredericksburg.
We rode the usual route around
the threes backwards on Friday. TX 39 is a much better ride
upstream on the Guadaloupe than down. Scenery is much better as you are
riding into it rather that having to look back at it. We took TX 41 back
and got tired of the long straights so we cut south at Mountain Home back into
Kerrville. If you are looking for a long straight stretch of good road
with no traffic where you can open it up, TX 41 is the place. You pass
through the famous YO Ranch, which has game fences on both sides of the road so
you don't have to worry much about deer and other critters in the road.
On Saturday we decided to take
TX 16 almost to Bandera where we picked up 473 to Utopia. This is a
beautiful ride which is ignored by many in their rush to ride the threes.
A little excitement when we made the turn at Utopia and a big doe jumped across
the road in front of me. Close call in the middle of nowhere. A few
hundred yards down the road a big buck came out of the brush. I racked off
the pipes and he stayed in the ditch. We ran/rode along side each other
for another 150 yards or so until he could find a place to get out of the ditch.
We made a great loop and ended up in Comfort at Buzzies Bar B Que. Cheap
and good.
We took the Grapevine Road north
where a turkey flew up in front of me. Scared the hell out of me but it
missed. We by-passed Luckenbach. Gunnar was tired and Fergy wanted
to get in some more riding. We rode over to Johnson City with a short
detour through the Lyndon Johnson Historical Park. At Johnson City we
headed north to pick up the FM to Sandy, Texas, and on to Willow, Texas, to view
the bluebonnets. Rode the Willow Loop (a real pain on the weekends
because of all the tourists who jam up the roads).
Sunday we just took the usual
route home through Goldwaithe. Nice ride as far as Glen Rose.
After that it is mostly a superslab job.
Route Maps
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Ride Pics
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Parked on top of US 83 North of Leakey, Texas |
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Buzzies Bar B Q on Texas 27 in Comfort, Texas. Good food and cheap |
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Me on US 84 North of Leakey, Texas |
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Flower Child (me) in the bluebonnets near Sandy, Texas |
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Kevin (Fergy) Ferguson North of Leakey, Texas |
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Fergy playing in the Bluebonnets |
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Loaded down and headed south on Texas 16 |
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On Texas 16 north of Cherokee on way home |
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Top of mountain north of Leakey,Texas |
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Fergy and DWC along the Guadeloupe River on Texas 39 |
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View from the high point of US 83 |
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DWC,Gunnar and Me on US 83 |
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Great End to a Great Day
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