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Went out mural hunting today .
 

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Caddo Lake, which is by the way the only natural lake in Texas

Correct, but I believe it was moved to a new location by a massive log jam. I read that a long time ago, although I don't see how a lake would do that. But lets see what AI says about it

Caddo Lake is frequently cited as the only natural lake in Texas, but it is more accurately described as the only natural lake of significant size that was originally formed by a natural logjam (the "Great Raft" on the Red River). While popular lore holds that it is the only one, Texas has hundreds of smaller natural lakes, including oxbow lakes, coastal lakes, and thousands of playa lakes in the Panhandle.
 
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Caddo Lake, which is by the way the only natural lake in Texas

Correct, but I believe it was moved to a new location by a massive log jam. I read that a long time ago, although I don't see how a lake would do that. But lets see what AI says about it

Caddo Lake is frequently cited as the only natural lake in Texas, but it is more accurately described as the only natural lake of significant size that was originally formed by a natural logjam (the "Great Raft" on the Red River). While popular lore holds that it is the only one, Texas has hundreds of smaller natural lakes, including oxbow lakes, coastal lakes, and thousands of playa lakes in the Panhandle.
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Yes, I read that "only natural lake" baloney attributed to Balmorrhea, and that's not true either. Texas has hundreds of natural lakes, although some are subject to drying up in extended heat waves.
 
Yes, Caddo Lake has a man-made dam. While the lake initially formed from a natural logjam in the 1800s, it now relies on an earthfill dam near Mooringsport, Louisiana, to maintain its water
 
I rode up to Zephyr to look at some land today. Really nice roads, especially from Lampasas on. The Colorado river was higher and moving faster than normal. So, I had to double back rather than ford it here:

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I sure like that giant Pecan grove off of Hwy 16:

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I rode up to Zephyr to look at some land today. Really nice roads, especially from Lampasas on. The Colorado river was higher and moving faster than normal. So, I had to double back rather than ford it here:

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I sure like that giant Pecan grove off of Hwy 16:

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Looks like you took 417 through the pecan grove. That's a neat couple of miles through there. Good call on not trying to cross the Colorado. It's probably moving pretty good and deep right now with the recent rains. I've been across when it was dry road all the way and been turned back when it was so sloppy on the west side of the river it was hard to even walk down to the water's edge. Here is my last time crossing it back at Christmas time. Flow was slow but it was deep enough to come into the tops of my Sidi offroad boots while on the pegs.

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Discovered the Longhorn Museum in Pleasanton, Tx., during a local ride. It was not open at the time but what was on display outside looks promising...

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There is the main museum building and a separate building that has a sign stating "windmill museum", along with a restored train depot/caboose. Windmills and trains have always interested me...
 
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Things can't go much better than this. Got The Beast out yesterday, and took off real early on Landshark today. Since I've pretty much checked the boxes on getting back on the road again, I didn't care about destination. I kinda wanted to go west, and I kinda wanted to just take a nice ride and beat the traffic that would come. Hit the parkway and decided to 281 it north and do the Luckenbach run. That was a good decision!

Very light traffic, a little cloudy, and humidity was tamed by perfect wind chill. I was noticing the confused gas gauge was dropping, and got down below a quarter, so I surmised that it's ok reading low, but likely a gas line in there won't let it show much past half. I stopped at the Fischers again and she took 4gal, so my surmising was right for once. Onward.

It looked kinda dark ahead, but it seemed just a low ceiling, and sure enough, as soon as I turned on to 473, the clouds broke. Sunshine at my back, and just the rolling twisty road ahead of me, and the once again gorgeous GREEN landscape bathed in light. I grinned and wick'd up a little. ALL the way to Luckenbach and not ONE SINGLE CAGE in my way. THIS is why I leave so early! And Luckenbach was deserted!! :scratch: I expected to see the campground trailer park completely full! The singing toilet attendant lady (seriously good voice) said they had 2500 for an event Saturday, then they all left.

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Decided not to do Old SA Road, and come back 1888 to Blanco again, since I hadn't had Landshark on that road in many years. Another good decision, and so much fun. Came up on a slow moving 5th wheel mobile apartment complex, but quickly hit a passing zone. Zoom zoom! Once into Blanco and turning back south on 281, the whole concept of leave early came into focus, and the further south I got, the heavier the northbound traffic got. I stopped back at the Fischers for a hunk 'o pizza and to nurse my still hot coffee mug, and chilled.

An older kinda ratty F350 pulled in with a dark skinned kid driving and a pale white girl passenger. The guy came around the truck to let her out. I had a mouth full of pizza, and waited for them to come back. He did the same thing to let her in, and I said "Man, you did that twice for your girl, you don't see that anymore!" They laughed, and he thanked me, and I said "No, thank you, you made my day!" He also had a big flag flying in the bed. Nice! My bike flag is kinda disintegrating, but I have flag stickers all over the bikes, and a big vinyl one on the back of both jackets.

All the while, the northbound flow got heavier and heavier, with lots of bikes trying to get around big trucks and slow cages after the stoplight. I grinned and headed south. I was considering going past my exit and riding some more, but now southbound traffic was getting silly and I felt the temp rise 5-10 degrees when I reentered the heat island. I'm good. Back in the barn at 10:30am.

I thought a lot about how hard I worked on the bikes these last few months, and how fortunate I am to have them come back to me like lost friends, and then of course, being healthy enough again to make them sing. And today I thought about how fortunate we ALL are to be able to do ANY of this and so much more because of..... Veterans. I think about all the marvelous WW2 vets I met with the bomber, and the Vietnam and so on vets that I have/had known, and quickly realize, without their sacrifice, it's entirely possible that NONE of this ever happened. I rode for those that can't. Salute!

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450 miles today, Rogers to Grove Ok through Pawhuska, north on Foraker Rd west of the tall grass prairie into Kansas, east to Coffeyville, Baxter springs, Joplin Goodman and back home. Just needed a day to myself….saw beautiful flags in Grove, most small cities, many cemeteries and it’s good to see our country celebrating those we owe….
1) What kind of stone? Foraker cemetery
2) Idyllic pond on the Ok/Ks border..
3) Neosho river in Chetopa Ok, catfish capital self proclaimed!
4) Prairie grass makes me happy, subsidy hogs make me sad….😞
5). Amber waves of grain near Vinita on 66.
6, 7) Point of three state convergence in SE Kansas, OK and MO.
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@Mike B and @TossingLead and I took a back road ride to Mineral Wells to meet some of the Honda ST Owners group for lunch.

8 of us attended with 6 of the 8 owning/having owned STs.

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The long distance rider rode in from Amarillo on his decked out FJR.

After lunch we headed out towards home on a different route. This cool piece of art was at the intersection of a couple back roads.

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It was great day to get out before the quickly approaching summer heat gets here.

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Motorcyles, Mance and Jay Jeffery Music

That's the title to this post. Yesterday, was my first work day for summer, where we switch to 4-10's. I never liked it, but you have to live it. With this being my last summer, and with the amount of days to use before I go, I worked with mgt.'s secretary and a page printed out of the handbook to setup a schedule of every Mon and Fri off, Tuesday and Wednesday 630-230 and Thursday 630 to 130 till the end of July. Not bad. I guess you can say I've been saving up for this.

So yesterday was my first Monday. I used it as a practice to see what is it going to be like when the time comes that there is no more going in.

I have always had a ride to find the grave of Mance Libscomb, so I started with silencing the alarms, and laying around till i felt like getting up, then I waited till i felt like riding to go find it. Mance has a big history in the area and in Texas Blues Music. First his name, taken form the word emancipation. I have him on my list of getting a book to learn more and visiting sites related to him. But for now, I have these links.

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Mance Lipscomb - Wikipedia

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So what does he have in common with my buddy Jay Jeffery. Well jay is a Waco fireman, and a Texas songwriter. And motorcycles? I ride with Jay and his group, The Rusty Bolts. I'm not an official bolt, maybe just a nut sometimes tho.

So I made this ride yesterday, to visit what I can, for now, of old Mance. I sat and listened to one of his songs, then i played him a song from my buddy Jay. Now I try to pickup small things to go in my keepsake cabinet, and all I could find was a pocket knife that someone left him. Well, you don't take another man's pocket knife, so I tucked it down close to his stone so he can find it.

Maybe like Mance, Jay will get discovered one day and get the title he deserves.

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This song, he was on a ride and stopped in Bandera, walked around, and saw some rugs for sale, and met the intriguing lady that was selling them. This will become his forst single release in a couple of weeks. (the hot chic on the cover is his wife, she's quite the firecracker)



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I saw Mance Lipscomb perform in the early 70's. I think it was at Armadillo World Headquarters.
Also saw Gatemouth Brown. They both were special and played a lot at Austin bars. Like The One Knight on Red River and 7th Street and The Jade Room.
 
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