Big Bend National Park

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We had a great ride to the Big Bend National Park and back. We left on Friday at 8AM and got down to Terlingua just outside the park at about 7PM. Weather was great.

On Saturday, the following day we rode throughout the entire park. Wow, those are some big mountains, cliffs and rocks!

We saw several views of the Rio Grand River and the border between US and Mexico. Don't need a wall in alot of the sections down there. 1500-2000 ft cliffs should do the trick along some of the border. We should get a tax rebate for some of that. Rough but beautiful country. Lots of twisty roads which was fun on the bike.

We decided to tent camp and carried it all with us. It was a blast. We let the restaurants provide the chow though. Our group has a long suit in eating in restaurants.

The Valkyrie 1500 did a great job on the trip. Makes the road alot easier. When the Harleys and the other VTwins were downshifting going up some 15degree plus grades the Valk just climbed them in 5th gear without the need to even downshift. Wow what a bike.

After all day touring the park, we returned to Terlingua and our camp. Got some rest that night! The next morning we broke camp and headed back to a couple of spots in the park we didn't want to miss. We then followed the Rio Grand to Presidio, Texas on what is called the Texas Mountain Trail. At Presidio we headed north to Alpine where we set up camp. It rained on us that night but the tents stayed dry. On Sunday am we broke camp and headed back to Lubbock. Got home around 3pm, ready for a shower and a nap ;) Odometer showed the entire trip to be just over 1000 miles.

All in all it was a great ride that will be well remembered. Good food, good roads, good fellowship.

Until next time you can check out more of the pictures of the trip by clicking on the picture above.