Well here's a couple more shots.
The dreaded slime crossing, after we picked our bikes up and Will crossed.
Scott coming across the slime..
I didn't quite catch Scott's bike down, they picked it up too fast.
I forgot my camera Saturday, but took some shots Sunday while adventuring my way home from Alpine to Dallas.
I couldn't stand the long straight path up 67 for too long and popped off on a dirt road following a RR track.
Here's a shot looking both ways when I hit blacktop after about 15 miles of dirt, and literally hundreds and hundreds of jack rabbits one every 20-30 feet for 20 miles. It was still straight as an arrow.
Found this tunnel going under I-10 as i was offroading past the dead end feeder roads following a little stint where 67 follows it for a few miles.
Long freakin straight road north of I-10, I stopped to see if I could find some back road detours, 3-4 harleys passed so I snapped it. I got back on after this and decided to go check some geocaches that showed up not far off my path.
First the GPS ran me over miles of dirt out into the middle of nowhere dead end in the cactus and mesquite which got into my front tire unfortunately, but a pretty little detour anyway... My camera doesn't really do the colors justice.
After backtracking and a few more miles of dirt and pave I hit the little ghost town and the first courthouse built in Reagan County, or what's left of it. Time for a lunch time powerbar...
The next geocache was the next county over and their first county courthouse, built in 1908, abandoned and out on a county road a couple miles from town. Still standing with clock intact though.
Makes me wonder why a square didn't develop around it?
That stop is when I noticed a flat front tire and had to go get some fix a flat stuff, no trouble as the ktm is so light it'll run all day at 70 on a flat tire, centrifical force keeps it off the rim till you slow down.
Then off to the next geocache, a cool little roadside stop for a red bull and power bar.
It was getting late and I hadn't even made San Angelo yet, so I go back to the GPS routing telling Lola to avoid everything but dirt roads, and I get this..
Then back to pavement, had to stop and adjust my chain here, there's actually a little waterfall back there and some kind of mill or something back in the weeds.
I came across this old bridge the highway bypassed, I had to check it out
I wanted to ride down under it in the riverbed and explore more, but time was starting to get tight.
After a loooong stretch of paved FM's some very nice and curvy and some not, I was losing faith in Lola's routing, just about that time she served me up with this.
The mix of dirt and road was great, FM's were the largest she ever routed me on with dirt whenever it was handy to connect me. About 1/4 dirt and only the one time did I get dead ended trying to get to the geocache.
I spotted 3 wolves or more likely coyotes on a fence, some counties there's a $25 bounty or used to be....
After that it really was getting late but I continued following the gps's adventure route, but at 80mph. I hit Ft. Worth at about 9:15 and home at about 9:30 for a 13hr ride.