The Thread is vertually useless without pictures
I left the casa about 0645hrs to meetup with Rusty's group at Smokey J's BBQ. While waiting, I enjoyed a sliced brisket and egg soft taco. Shortly thereafter we had a dozen or so folks and split into two groups to get us out of town. We headed out 620 to Hwy 71, then Hamilton Pool Road and down RR12 into Dripping Springs. From there, we went out to Henley then down FM165 to gather/fuel in Blanco. The rest was sort of a blur as we were one big group but I do recall 473 and some construction, then winding up on 46 then 16 to Medina.
Many riders had already arrived and Love Creek didn't open until 11:00 so everyone mingled out front. Lots of new faces to greet and new bikes to gawk at. Most had lunch/pie then departed for a run at the Three Sisters.
Our group took off with about seven and headed out 337 with a stop in Leakey for fuel. We continued on to Camp Wood where we took 55 North to Barksdale and the beginning of 335. We ran that one up to 41 where one peeled off to the West, and three were going to head East to Mountain Home/Kerrville. That left three to run back down 336 into Leakey for yet another fuel stop.
We decided we'd backtrack 337 to Medina, then catch Hwy16 up to Kerrville/Fredericksburg and over to Luckenbach. By the time we were at the Luckenbach turnoff it was already late afternoon so one more dead-headed home via 290. That left Fred and I to run over to Luckenbach, but we were told they closed the entry to all but foot traffic and we'd have to park in the field. Hot, tired and sweaty, we opted to just high-tail it back 290 to Austin as well splitting about the "Y" in Oak Hill.
I had 455 miles on the day and enjoyed every one of them with good friends old and new. Pulled in this evening right at 12 hours after departure give or take a minute.
...... and the requisite pictures:
Part of the lunch crowd waiting on 11:00
A nicely farkled R1200GS-ADV:
Part of the lunch line....
The REAL reason for these runs:
Our motley crew around Rusty's new R1200GS-ADV
Carl (rhodyne), Fred (Red Brown), newguy, James (Jbay), Rusty (Woodbutcher), Bill (StromDude) Garreth (Iron Wombat)
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