We got home about 4:30pm Saturday. Spending Friday night in Clarksville in a hotel was a good decision! Everything is unpacked and bikes have all be cleaned, which took some doing on Daniel's bike!
The property is simply incredible. All three of my kids were able to ride a LOT despite very different riding abilities. There were a TON of fantastic pastures where Rachel (8 yr old) was able to ride her TTR50E without training wheels for the first time. She followed me all over the place and had an absolute blast. Her and Sarah (12 yr old) enjoyed the challenge of a few long rocky climbs/descents on the main roads out through the pastures. That was a first for both of them. Sarah was riding her CRF110F. I got to spend time riding with each kid alone and with all three at once. Daniel (10yr old) was ripping all over the place on his TTR110E, which we only got the Friday before leaving for the trip. He could NOT get enough of this place!! It was all I could to do keep him in sight!
It really is hard to describe how cool this property is. Donnie and his family have done a LOT of work on it. I am pretty sure we only barely scratched the surface and yet just what we saw is incredible. I only wish it was not so far for us to visit. Daniel was not happy about having to leave...
We had some map confusion and had trouble finding the property on Wednesday evening. So we ended up in Huntsville on Hwy 23 for the night. However, I figured out what went wrong and we were able to find it easily Thursday morning. Google maps shows the road as CR 9. The actual signs on the road and my GPS map show it as CR 3260. And somehow I had 9 on the brain and found CR 9560 instead, which is on the other side of the valley and a LOT rougher road. Anyway, we were able to ride most of Thursday and a good part of Friday before having to load up and head out. I wish we could have stay and ridden Saturday as well.
Donnie and Lynn were great hosts. We got to meet his son, daughter, and several grand kids as well. Daniel REALLY enjoyed chasing Donnie, Doug, and Brad on the twisty dirt trails. Beth enjoyed the tour with Lynn via a Kawasaki Mule.
I have a ton of pictures and will try to get up a report when I can.