Category: Texas
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Day 10 – At the Border of Mexico (Presidio, TX)
We spent the majority of the morning taking care of final preparations to cross into Mexico tomorrow. We shipped a few more items that we though may attract the unnecessary attention of Mexican military and got a small amount of cash in small denominations for food and gas. Instead of taking the major highways to…
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Day 9 – Approaching the Mexican Border (Fort Stockton, TX)
In the morning, we went to the local post office to mail a few items to lighten our weight. We mailed approximately 4 lbs, which made our side cases weight about 39 lbs each. After riding for about 2.5 hours, we stopped in a small town in the middle of nowhere – Roosevelt. We took…
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Day 8 – Easy Ride (Austin, TX)
As we exited our hotel and started safety checks of our motorcycles, a gentlemen walked up to us and said that last night he went to our website (our side cases have a map of what we are doing with the link). His name was Ted and he asked us if it were really the…
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Day 7 – Good Bye New Orleans – Hello Texas (Houston, TX)
We left New Orleans around 9:30 after performing the daily bike safety checks. For lunch, we stopped at Lake Charles in Louisiana at a cozy restaurant – Steamboat Bill’s on the Lake. We ordered the Captain Platter, which had shrimp, oysters, and fish. We enjoyed the food, and especially the cold drinks as the weather…