The Cheese Weasels Do Big Bend, Texas

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We enjoyed a little nip of Kentucky Bourbon and then set off to find something to eat.


Not a lot of dinner options in Leakey. We got some decent beef brisket and smoked chicken at the Bears Den across the street.


In the Bears Den.

We came back to the campground and ran across three guys about our age who were also riding Harleys. One was a native Texan from Houston, one was a transplant from N. Ohio, and the other was his brother visiting from Cleveland. They were about three sheets to the wind and pretty wound up and full of themselves. We did get some riding tips, one of which was don't try to make a loop out of the Three Twisted Sisters. Just treat them like a great big "U" and ride all segments in both directions.



Next Installment: Two Twisted Sisters and on to Del Rio
Day 2 - Saturday 24 March 2018 - Two Twisted Sisters

We woke to overcast skies and condensing mist in the air...100% relative humidity.



Not the ideal conditions for riding in the Hill Country but...better than outright rain for sure. We ate a light breakfast at a grocery/market across the street and set out north on Texas Ranch Road 336.













As the hills ended and the terrain flattened out, we decided to turn around and run it back south again to Leakey. We stopped at this sign on the north end of 336.


We moved a small flat rock to provide a base for the camera. Be warned: there are scorpions in this area and we immediately found one when we picked up the rock.



Back at Leakey, we again turned west on 337 toward Camp Wood. There was a great section of twisties along that stretch of road. At Camp Wood, we decided we'd gotten a pretty good flavor for the riding. As the clock was marching on toward mid-morning, we resolved to skip the third twisted sister, 335 north of Camp Wood. Instead, we pointed the bikes south on 55, eventually turning west on 334 toward Bracketville and then west again on US 90 to Del Rio.




West Prong of the Nueces River.


We were fascinated by the mudless dry river bed strewn with polished river stone.