Getting ready to roll with Rod from Valley Mills.
LEANING TOWARDS PIE
Hey Rich...(& the two FJR guys! sorry didn't get yer names) Glad ya'll headed down to meet up with us in Valley Mills. We actually had a pretty good little group goin on with Waco & slowoldguy along... + Danimal from Corsicana. Sorry mfleck didn't get to make it due to his throttle problem on that Bandit at the CEFCO.
Our ride toward PIE detoured off the highway almost immediately... takin in the small community of Patton just off TX317 & then Chisholm Trail into Crawford. After that headin to Osage on FM185 were we then took Coryell CR265 & 274 for that nice Coryell valley view while workin our way toward Gatesville.
The next series of roads took us all the way over to 281 & Lampasas. First off ..FM1783 from FM116 just SW of Gatesville thru King. This is always a great shortcut road ..especially when it changes to Slater Rd (we did hafta deal with some fresh pebbles on the pavement for a bit...but...it is that time of year...a little dust too).
Slater Rd takes ya to FM1690 & Izoro (w/the old Texaco Station) & we kept headin south across the Lampasas River & then onto FM2527 where we took a right on Lampasas CR3420 for an entertainin bit of backroad pavement into town. Love that one...
We met up with Leon's group at the north side Shell in Lampasas & it was there that most everyone else decided on a quick dash down 281 to PIE. Danimal & I kept with my plan & took FM580..FM1494 then the good stuff. LCR1154/Burnet CR106 & CR104 to the nice long CR108 into Burnet parallelling 281 mostly. From Burnet..we gave it up & headed on down 281 with the rest of the traffic. Our reward being a fine pot roast meal topped off with banana cream pie.