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TEXAS INVADES MEXICO aka Uncle Rogers Tour of Mexico
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[QUOTE="Tony Eeds, post: 1143819, member: 32023"] [b]MEXadventure 2007: The Intervention[/b] Building the foundation ... Like many of the rides reported on in this forum, this ride started quietly one evening over a drink last spring ... Why don’t we go to Mexico? Sounds like fun to me. Me to. Me three. When? Dang, I would really like to go, but don’t get any vacation until January and can only use one week for the trip. Ok, well how about January and we do ... say 9 days, which is a work week plus the weekends. Cool! With that, informal planning took over and a general route was proposed and a thread posted on TWT about the ride. [B]The route:[/B] Who was it that originally described the “Great Circle Route”? Well, this wasn’t THAT great circle route, but it was ambitious from the very beginning ... Day One - Presidio, Texas/Ojinaga, Chihuahua to Creel, Chihuahua Day Two - Creel, Chihuahua to Los Mochis, Sinaloa (via Batopilas) Night Two - The Midnight Ferry to La Paz, Baja California Sur Day Three - La Paz, Baja California Sur to Mulegé, Baja California Sur Day Four - Mulegé, Baja California Sur to Mike’s Sky Ranch, Baja California Norte Day Five - Mike’s Sky Ranch, Baja California Norte to Douglas, Arizona Day Six - Douglas, Arizona to El Paso, Texas Day Seven - El Paso, Texas to Presidio, Texas Stop laughing!! To complicate things a bit further, the post on TWT yielded 14 people interested in the trip and willing to sign on. Now logistics became a huge issue. For those that have ever been in the military, they well understand the logistics of movement of large groups and often every attempt begins with ... hurry up and wait. This is the reason for choosing the name “intervention” for the ride. As you will learn from our noble attempt, intervention became the watch word for planning and executing this effort. Never one to shirk from adventure, the intrepid band of merry adventurers slogged forward into the darkness, only barely aware that poop could hit the fan at any moment. Many of us geared up for the ride by reading the many epic adventures chronicled in the annals of Adventure Rider and more particularly, the adventures of Gaspipe and Big Dog. Cognizant that everyone on ADV had many more adventures than we under their belts, we absorbed, like little sponges, the wisdom gleaned from the ride reports. [B]Intervention One - [/B] The route always looked to be ambitious beyond belief to me, and I lobbied for dropping the Baja leg from the beginning. The hurricanes in Baja, reality that many towns would be unable to take care of 16 ... oops, the group had grown from 14 ... and the fact that one members wife had a due day just after returning from Mexico, dictated a reworking of the route. Baja was tossed ... in most people’s minds anyway. Steve still wanted to go to Baja, and kept saying he was heading for the ferry, if he ever saw the sea. I also wanted to go to Baja, but I saw it as another adventure. John was caught between us. [B]Revised Route ...[/B] Day One - Presidio, Texas/Ojinaga, Chihuahua to Creel, Chihuahua Day Two - Creel, Chihuahua to El Fuerte, Sinaloa via Batopilas, Chihuahua Day Three - El Fuerte, Sinaloa to Témoris, Chihuahua via Huatabampo, Sonora for lunch with John’s in-laws Day Four - Témoris, Chihuahua to Creel, Chihuahua via Urique, Chihuahua Day Five - Bonus / Off Day Day Six - Creel, Chihuahua to Buenaventura, Chihuahua via Basaseachic Falls Day Seven - Buenaventura, Chihuahua to Fort Hancock, Texas Day Eight - Fort Hancock, Texas to Presidio, Texas/Ojinaga, Chihuahua to retrieve our vehicles. We had added a day ... OK, I’m betting that you experienced adventure riders are still laughing at the “revised route”. It was still ambitious, but believe me, I saw it as 1000% more achievable than our original route. As we all know ... every good adventure needs a plan and most plans get tossed in the first minutes of any good adventure. There was still hope ... One of our additional adventurers to help us grow to 16 was the owner of Wolfman Luggage. Steve had met Eric at the Nevada Rally Experience and all of a sudden, we all developed the desire to try and buy out Eric’s entire supply of Wolfman luggage. But that is getting things out of order ... [B]Intervention Two - [/B] In early August, we organized a ride from Pandale, Texas out to Van Horn, Texas and back to act a shakedown trip. Four days and 1,100 miles with many of the group and a few other folks in beautiful Big Bend, Texas. That is always a great way to spend a long weekend. This would not be a new adventure for many of us with the exception of Longfellow Road (all but me) and the Lost Trail (a few). In Marathon, we lost Matt, my Cajun buddy from south Louisiana and a tense couple of hours transpired before we located him. It would have been easier, but there were only a few of us capable of understanding the unique “English” he uttered, and trust me on this, none of them live in Big Bend. Ken and I located him and we backtracked in the darkness to Terlingua Ranch. This led to lesson number one ... [B]Lesson Number One -[/B] Everyone needs a riding buddy that they always know the whereabouts of. We would not have lost him if one person had been responsible for him, rather than the “group”. Now I understand how mothers lose kids in the grocery store and drive off without them. That is but the first part of the intervention, as I went down while being distracted in thought and broke my right scapula. Well, it was only 400 miles back to my truck ... let’s go ... I can hold the throttle with my hand, as long as I use my left hand to put my right hand on the throttle. This lead to lesson number two ... [B]Lesson Number Two -[/B] Don’t fall down, it will hurt you. [img]http://teeds.smugmug.com/photos/90303786-M.jpg[/img] Both lessons would come to haunt us later. Stop laughing!! The fall of 2006 was uneventful, see comments about shopping for bags above, and soon the Terlingua Dual Sport Ride preparation and execution was behind Steve, John and I. Only Thanksgiving and Christmas loomed between us and the adventure that had come to be known as MEXadventure 2007. An Aside ... During the Terlingua Dual Sport Ride we encountered some folks with a great deal of recent experience in Baja ... To the casual comment about going from Mulegé, Baja California Sur to Mike’s Sky Ranch, Baja California Norte in one day, their comment was ... are you crazy? Ok, I was feeling a bit better about the route change ... Well, I thought I was feeling better. About 11:30 PM, the Wednesday before Christmas, I awoke with what felt like an ice pick in my right ear. Hurt does not even begin to tell the story. I had been fighting a cold about a week, but the only time I had ever experienced this was once when I was a kid. I managed to get back to sleep and awoke in the morning to find my pillowcase covered in blood and my ear crusted up with dried blood. A trip to the doctor ensued. Some of y’all may have noticed that it was a bit chillier, as everyone that knows me, knows that it would be a cold day in hell before I would go to the doc at the first sign of anything being wrong. I always wait until I can smell the rot, run out of beer, or my vacation is over, whichever comes first. She confirmed that I had messed up my ear, gave me some antibiotics and told me that I would be unable to hear and that my ear would ring for a while. After a week of banging into walls, I realized that I had to have lights on for the visual clues, as I drifted to the right without them. I also could not tell where things are by sound and kept losing where my cell phone was. If I could not see the flashing, I could not find it. Therefore it became a permanent fixture on my hip, even around the house. I had to consider changing the ring of my phone as it was the same ring I was getting in my ear. Stop laughing!! Wait a minute, that may actually be the ringing ... shhhhhhh ... [/QUOTE]
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