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- First Name
- Marty
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- Johnston
I am the luckiest guy around. I married a awesome, wonderful lady 27 years ago. Our anniversary will be on July the 3rd. I asked her a while back what she wanted to do this year to celebrate. Her answer was to go to Fredericksburg to camp and ride. What a awesome deal! Of course our idea of camping maybe different from yours, we have a Bunkhouse camper we pull behind the Voyager. Complete with a 5000 BTU A/C unit. No hot sleeping quarters for us old folks.
Now to the remember part of the ride now that I have explained the Anniversary part. We lived in Austin from 1990 to 1998. We bought our 1992 Goldwing GL1500I in 1993 and Kathy bought her first bike in 1994. So the Hill Country in and around Fredericksburg is some of our old haunts and riding areas. So we plan on re-riding some of those roads over the next few days.
Here is the route we will be riding on the way down.
Some pictures along the way to Hico.
Of course we had to make a stop here for breakfast.
Some Vette’s parked out front.
Our breakfast.
I am trying something new with camera and taking pictures while rolling down the road.I have camera on a lanyard around my neck rather than on the handle bar mount. Most of the time the pictures come out good, but sometimes they don’t. Here are some of my mistakes.
I snapped this of Kathy over my shoulder as we rode along.
She took this one of me.
We made a few other stops along the way for pictures of a few courthouses and to grab a couple geo-caches.
Lampasas for the Lampasas County courthouse.
On to Burnet for this picture of the Burnet County courthouse.
Kathy got this picture of me taking a picture.
The Air Museum at the Burnet Airport.
Crossing the lake at Marble Falls.
We got this picture of the Blanco County courthouse in Johnson City.
We made pretty good time and arrived at the KOA campground just outside Fredericksburg about 4:00PM. We got camp setup pretty quick and made a run to Wally World for some provisions for next few days. The priority with getting camp setup was to get the A/C going. Here are some pics of our camp I made the next morning.
Our dinner for this evening, Foil Burgers, is what my grandmother called them. A beef patty with some veggies wrapped in foil. Either put in fire or on the grill for about 45 minutes.
Here is a pic of our camp at night that Kathy took.
Accomplishments today:
pictures of 3 courthouses—Lampasas, Burnet, & Blanco
geo-caches in 2 counties—Lampasas, Burnet
214 miles to get here.
Stay tuned, more to come.
Marty
Now to the remember part of the ride now that I have explained the Anniversary part. We lived in Austin from 1990 to 1998. We bought our 1992 Goldwing GL1500I in 1993 and Kathy bought her first bike in 1994. So the Hill Country in and around Fredericksburg is some of our old haunts and riding areas. So we plan on re-riding some of those roads over the next few days.
Here is the route we will be riding on the way down.
Some pictures along the way to Hico.
Of course we had to make a stop here for breakfast.
Some Vette’s parked out front.
Our breakfast.
I am trying something new with camera and taking pictures while rolling down the road.I have camera on a lanyard around my neck rather than on the handle bar mount. Most of the time the pictures come out good, but sometimes they don’t. Here are some of my mistakes.
I snapped this of Kathy over my shoulder as we rode along.
She took this one of me.
We made a few other stops along the way for pictures of a few courthouses and to grab a couple geo-caches.
Lampasas for the Lampasas County courthouse.
On to Burnet for this picture of the Burnet County courthouse.
Kathy got this picture of me taking a picture.
The Air Museum at the Burnet Airport.
Crossing the lake at Marble Falls.
We got this picture of the Blanco County courthouse in Johnson City.
We made pretty good time and arrived at the KOA campground just outside Fredericksburg about 4:00PM. We got camp setup pretty quick and made a run to Wally World for some provisions for next few days. The priority with getting camp setup was to get the A/C going. Here are some pics of our camp I made the next morning.
Our dinner for this evening, Foil Burgers, is what my grandmother called them. A beef patty with some veggies wrapped in foil. Either put in fire or on the grill for about 45 minutes.
Here is a pic of our camp at night that Kathy took.
Accomplishments today:
pictures of 3 courthouses—Lampasas, Burnet, & Blanco
geo-caches in 2 counties—Lampasas, Burnet
214 miles to get here.
Stay tuned, more to come.
Marty