Bike update & Big Bend trip

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted on this blog.  Time to get it back up and running.  Way time for a new picture too, since I've been through about 4 bikes since then. 

Here's one of them.... The Yamaha FZ6.   It was a great bike, very powerful.  I loved it but it was a little tall for me.

I sold it and bought a BMW F650 Classic from a friend.  That thing was a tractor.  It sounded like one and pulled like one.  I rode it to Big Bend over Christmas in 2012.  It was okay but not my dream bike.

Nice trip....long way to Big Bend.  Got a nice look at the Rio Grande, the mountains, and some rest stops on Hwy 170 covered with teepees.  Great riding on Hwy 170.  Had to stop to be checked out by the Border Patrol and their doggies near Presidio.  Kind of scary but uneventful.

It's nice to live in Texas and have good riding weather year round.  There was a little rain on the way out but sunny and good temps coming back.

I wasn't much impressed with Terlingua.  Everybody goes on and on about how great it is.....looks like a bomb went off down there and nobody ever bothered to clean it up.  To each his own, I guess.

It's rough country, long way between gas stations, bring your own water, ride with a buddy, hope your cell phone works better than mine did.

It's worth going and seeing.  It has a kind of desolate beauty.  Be mindful there.

Song for the day is.....Viva Terlingua by Jerry Jeff Walker....of course