Friday opened up with a lot of rain, so it looks like we made a judicious decision. We have all ridden in the rain and certianly will ride in the rain again, but really didn't feel the need this weekend. The larger group did head down on Friday and apparently had at least 3 hours of torrential downpours and thunderstorms. The Radar looked like they may have had even more, as well as wet roads from all the rain. We were planning on riding a different route and if we had have gone, we probalby would have had about 6-8 hours of very heavy rain and severe thunderstorms.
Mid afternoon Friday I opened the garage to throw out some garbage and was greeted by this site at the end of my driveway, in my neighbors driveway.
So yeah, there were some bad storms....
Saturday we took it pretty easy and hung out with some friends and had some fun Wii Bowling. And plans were tentatively made for a ride on Sunday.
In the end there were only 4 of us who rode on Sunday. But it was a great ride. I had planned the route through some roads in North East Texas, some I had ridden before but a lot we had not. We did see quite a few wildflowers unfortunatley no places where we could pull off and get some good shots. In addition to the bluebonnets there were several other varities.
We also stopped for lunch at Loose Wheels, before heading to Carpenters Bluff Bridge. I have written about this bridge before, its just a cool old one lane bridge that crosses the Red River into Oklahoma. I wanted to get some shots and managed to get a couple that I like. After that we stayed on some FM roads for a few more miles at stopped at Big Slicks, another biker friendly establishment a bit closer to home.
Here's a couple of my favorite shots from today.
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