Motorcycling in the Texas Hill Country

Today started late for us.  We slept until 8:00 which is waaaay past our normal get up time!  We must be starting to relax.  Bob made a breakfast of eggs and bacon for a really lazy morning.  The temperature was in the 40's when we got up but it warmed up pretty fast.  After Bob got the motorcycle all ready, it was about 11:00 and much warmer.  The temperature got up to 74 today.

We took a bunch of the local roads: east from here on local roads, north fron a "Farm-to-Market" to the famous Luckenback, east on US290 to LBJs place, south and east on more F-M roads to Blanco for a late lunch, more F-M roads to Boerne (the local big city), followed by the Interstate back home.  It felt good to be riding again - I think the bike has been hibernating since October. 

The terrain was hilly, as expected, and somewhat filled with trees.  There were many ranches around.  The driveways had bricked entrances with closed gates with the names of the ranches on them.  They looked pretty fancy.  Rarely could you get a glimpse of the houses - darn!  Another surprise was how many For Sale signs were hung on those gates. 

While motorcycling, it brought back lots of memories of long motorcycle trips with our good friends the Almekinders.  I missed them today!  I accused Bob of also remembering those trips of "putting on miles" as he rode quickly past a whole bunch of wineries.  He did turn around and we went to one - hugely overpriced and not worth the stop. 

Tomorrow and Sunday are going to be long days trying to get across Texas.  We won't be doing much of anything except driving so our blogging may be spotty.  On Monday we plan on getting to Tucson to see some fellow fulltiming friends, Dan and Pam, and doing some sightseeing.  We'll leave on Wednesday morning to get to Paula's in Phoenix.  Looking forward to seeing them!