Sunday motorcycle ride

[Sunseeker]

We met up with some of Tommy's friends and made our way through some pretty back roads in Texas. Eventually, we wound up in a little town named "Uncertain". The guys speculated on how it got it's name, and the best answer was that someone asked someone else long ago where he was. Not really knowing, the guy responded "uncertain". I think he really said "How the hell do I know", but that made a plenty long return address.

Here is the Uncertain tavern where we all wet our whistles:


And Tommy with a couple of his riding buddies:


We rode on to the least likely place in all the land for some incredible barbeque! (Smoked brisket was ground and formed into patties and fried, then smothered with tons of homemade bbq sauce). Tommy described it as "gooder n good". I'm sure glad I didn't get pics of the sandwich cuz it's already making me hungry just remembering it! When we pulled in I wondered if we would really be eating in this place. Glad we did!:


We took more back roads to a place where Caddo Lake was real narrow and I took this picture of a cottage with all the lilly pads and spanish moss:

It was about 5 hours all together and we had lots of laughs. Never mind that the breeze was hot even when riding. It felt like going real fast through a real hot oven. I took this photo of a thermometer in the shade:

[Liz]

Great pics, Jill. Traveling back roads is always an adventure.

[khenrie]

Looks like a fun day! Thanks for sharing

By the way, we have a little place down the road called "No Name." According to legend, during a census in the early days... where it asked for the name of the town, some residents wrote in "no name" and it STUCK.

[JanJer]

Thanks for the pictures Jill, looks like a fun day even if it was HOT!

Jan

[Cedar518]

Looks like you all had a great time. I really like that little cabin on stilts by the river. I would love to live there, except carrying everything up and down stairs to get to the cabin!

[Sunseeker]

I'm trying to figure that cabin out, Cedar. That lake is incredibly huge so I don't know if that was land jutting out from shore, or if that place was on an island. Boats were speeding by both ways so I really wonder. I've got to ask around and find out now.

[Bethers]

Looks like a great day. I'd have enjoyed that, for sure. Motorcycle clubs and touring groups can find some of the best routes to travel. And they know of all those hole in the wall places to eat - sounds like you wouldn't mind going back there.

[Sunseeker]

So many more pictures I would have and should have taken. What a simple, laid back piece of the world this was. Of course sharing all of it with friends reallly topped it off. I can't wait to go back and explore a little more!

[avalen]

love the pictures, and those out of the way hole in the wall places usually
have the best food!

[mtngal]

Always happy to learn new Texas geography. Now if anybody mentions it I will know all about Uncertain! Looks like a very fun day!

[Echo]

You and I must have been on the same wave length Sunday Jill. I took a bike ride too.

I had 3/4's of my housework done and said the heck with the floors! Kelly's been working at unpacking her boxes slowly but surely for over 2wks now. Well Sunday she got serious about it and I ended up with a mountain of boxes in the living room and some in the hall. Told her she could do the floors.

Took a shower, waited for my last load to come out of the dryer, got dressed and that was that. I sat out on the bike letting it warm up and felt a tap on my shoulder that scared the willie-be-jeebers out of me. It was my friend Tracy's daughter telling me to wait cause her Mom wanted to go too. LOL Pulled the bike out the end of the driveway and there was Tracy standing in her shorts, bare feet with the telephone in her hand. LOLOLOL I raised one eyebrow and told her that while I was not a fanatic on tons of safety gear and all the biker grab, that I thought for a bike ride she was pushing the limits on what she was wearing! She burst out laughing and told me to not get my panties in a knot, that it would only take her a few minutes to get dressed to go. Dang must be a record of sorts on getting completely changed, into boots and have the bike pulled around almost ready to go. HA We had to put air in our front tires.

She asked where I wanted to go? Told her where I had thought of, nope, would have been to long of a ride and we were getting a late start. I told her to lead and I would follow. Ended up being about a 3 1/2hr ride. Went out past a lake here called Wataga and into a town called Mountain City. Took our time, stopped a few times to rest our butts. Neither she or I have done much riding this year. Especially me!! The area of the lake is usually beautiful but the lake is pitiful, it is so low. Good grief at the swimming beach? The pipes they use as barriers were on the 'ground' cause there was no water to hold them up! By time we got back home my butt was ready for a soft chair that wasn't vibrating. I had fun tho. We made plans to do it again in the next couple of weeks but to be sure to get an earlier start! LOL I can hardly wait........

[Sunseeker]

What a fun day you had, Echo. I'm glad you finally got some "me time" as you've been writing about it for a while. It's nice you have a friend/neighbor/gf that enjoys riding too!

Do they have a helmet law in TN? We do here in LA, but not across the state line in TX. As soon as we crossed we stopped so 2 of our guys could put their helmets in their saddlebags. I personally think vanity is not much of an issue with my noggin only that far from the pavement with no frame or metal in between me and it.

Nope, no wind in my hair for this gal, but I stilll DID get the thrill of bugs in my teeth

[oliveoil]

Glad you girls had a good ride----------- I can't take the heat any more I'm a wimp!!!!!
Hubby use to have a hog-- & when we get moved & sized down again----he may get another bike --------but I only ride in cooler weather -------I'll even take the rain----- over the heat!!!

[AlmostThere]

A helmet saved my son's life. He was just getting up to speed when someone pulled out in front of him and he hit the car's side and flipped over the hood and skidded down the highway. He was wearing Carharts bibbed overalls and they had road burn right thru them! He also said when he landed on his head the compression was so severe that the bottom edge of the helmet touched his shoulders. He was very lucky as he only had some bad headaches for a few months.

[carold]

I'm outside of Boston, so if you pass this way, notice the gal with her thumb out. carold