The Daily Ride Thread

Had a great ride today with @BayouSaint that rode in from Houston to Bandera for the Rally. He asked if I would show them the Twisted Sisters. Sure, no problem. Then he said a few more of his friends from out of Dallas area wanted to join, then a couple more joined. We ended up with 9 bikes total. Most were not familiar with area at all and was impressed with ride. I want to thank @BayouSaint for asking me to lead the group and have confidence I could handle it.

Getting group together.



Never played Road Caption for a larger group like this. Didn't lose anyone and no one wrecked, so good day for a group of riders that had never ridden together.



We stopped at the Bent Rim Cafe, over an hour wait for food, so we didn't stay.





@AlanRides and @Jspree, remember the intersection where we wrote our names on the rocks?



We stopped to do the same thing. Another group turned off main road a tad to fast and went down. Then the next 4 riders hit him and his bike. Sorry, no pictures, didn't think that would right. Everyone is going all right but some bad road rash, possibly broken ankle and a lot of messed up bikes.

@Brad_G and @Digger, watch the video closely, y'all will be on this road soon, can't wait.

Here's some more pictures of yesterday's ride:

@BayouSaint:







And his son, Jonathan:

Some old guy on trike:









Then a GIF of most group.

Weatherman got it right this time for Saturday. 73° with around 40% humidity (dry as the Sahara desert here near the Gulf Coast) and not a cloud in the sky. Really didn't have a destination in mind, so decided to go track down a few Texas County Courthouses and add them to my list for another forum I'm on. I need to review my records more thoroughly because as I pulled up to the Jasper County Courthouse my wife says "we've already been to this one" and I said "yup"....took a picture of it back in January. Weather stayed nice all day, even though it got a touch warm in the late afternoon in the mid part of the SE Texas quadrant, but we got through that little heat wave pretty quick and temperatures came back to the high 70s and low 80s.

Took some loopy routes from point to point in order to ride some roads in this neck of the woods that I hadn't ridden before. I'm going to have start going way out of my way to continue to find these "new to me" roads, but they are out there and I guess I've got nothing but time to go ride them..

Lots of people out and about today but most of them managed to drive with some semblance of control and I didn't have any close calls. Saw two or three car shows in parking lots and parks and a couple of town gatherings/festivals but didn't stop to look. Just a really nice day for a ride and I wanted to roll as much as I could.

I'll check the GoPro and see if there is anything noteworthy to post, but I don't think there is, unless looking through a bunch of dead bugs on the windshield makes for some trippy video.

Relive:

Rainy ride home. Need new rain pants. New boots worked great.

It was an overcast day with chance of drizzle today so didn't plan on riding. Wife wanted to make a run into San Antonio to a nursery to check on some plants. Remember, she said when we first moved here that we wouldn't landscape much, well that idea of no yard work for me has left. I told her I didn't want to go with her. I normally just get in her way anyway. She's gone about an hour and call to see if her wallet was on the counter. Yep, she drove an hour and forgot her wallet. Well, I jumped on the trike and took the wallet to her. Here's the Relive.


Remember I mentioned that @Digger and his riding buddy David is coming to Bandera. Just got a picture from them. This is what their weather looks like, and they are leaving in the morning.

Nice video and court house pictures. Things are really starting to green up over there. Hey, what's with blaming me on wet weather? I complain but the think of my empty lake and want some more. On a positive note, my cactus is starting to bloom.



And actually had a, as in 1, flower, then the deer or some 9ther criter ate it cause it wasn't there an hour later.

@Digger and Dave are here!! They made it to within a few hours of us the the night before and I road to meet them and showed them a few back roads to my cabin. Started out wet but cleared to a nice ride. More to follow.