Had a ton of peg scrapping fun on the way in. Jerry was navigatin' and Garmin wasn't co-operatin'!
We took a detour on to Hwy 123 which turned out to be a lot of peg scraping fun. Little did we know we would be riding this road every day a few times!
For posterity, here's another shot:
The second day Jerry led CDC and myself on the moonshine loop, with a little modification. Yes the GPS was acting up, that's right (and he stuck with that story):
Sunday was the best! We walk back from breakfast and Tourmeister is ready on the GS and says "get ready, I've been waiting for you guys". Ok, now Jerry wanted to do a run by the pig trail or something to get a sticker, in Tourmeister's words "Are you ready for the best ride yet? You can get the sticker by mail."
We started off on Hwy123 all the way up, then a few turns left, right, left, I dunno, lost track... ended up taking a ferry across some lake, ended up in Missouri and had the blast of a lifetime riding roads in Arkansas and Missouri! And all this Tourmeister conjured up based on just memory!
You'll have to bug Tourmeister for the details on the route all I can do is post a pic of the ferry crossing! Notice Tourmeister in deep thought, you would think he's thinking about the roads but no it was something else... anyway
So thanks Jerry, CDC and Tourmeister, but above all thanks to Richard for putting this together!
On the ride back home, I was saddened to see the devastation caused by wildfires. This looked like a mushroom cloud from one angle and I was in a hurry to take the camera out, but then I kept seeing more and more smoke so finally took the camera out and took a few shots while going by:
Deeper into Texas, I had to ride through the smoke. A water district guy I met at a gas station cautioned me to stay on 59 as lot of the highways were being blocked because of fire hazard. He was filling up his truck to tow the command center onsite.