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TEXAS INVADES MEXICO aka Uncle Rogers Tour of Mexico
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[QUOTE="Tony Eeds, post: 1143835, member: 32023"] [b]Day One (continued)[/b] Lunch was served a Pemex station on the south side of Chihuahua accompanied by the bump and grind of a couple of late teenage girls dancing to the sound emanating from their third world brief case. This was the first time all 13 of us had been in the same timeslot, except for a few brief moments, since leaving Ojinaga. [img]http://teeds.smugmug.com/photos/123116818-M.jpg[/img] [img]http://teeds.smugmug.com/photos/123117081-M.jpg[/img] [img]http://teeds.smugmug.com/photos/123117346-M.jpg[/img] [img]http://teeds.smugmug.com/photos/123117678-M.jpg[/img] [img]http://teeds.smugmug.com/photos/123117930-M.jpg[/img] Everyone mounted up and the groups split up again. John waited as my XR was being cranky (altitude?) and would not start. Finally it started ... and off we roared. I could see the tail end of the second group of riders in the distance so I wicked it up in hunt of a rear knobby, feeling certain that John was doing the same. The traffic was crowded ... think 635 around Dallas, 610 around Houston ... so the focus was on not becoming a statistic. Did I mention the wind? Well the hills perpendicular to the road were playing weird tricks with the wind. If you were next to a cut, the wind was from the left and you leaned that way. Cross into the valley between hills and the wind was from the right, so lean right. Over and over, up the wall of the mountain to the mesa above. Every now and again I attempted to look for John in my rear view mirror, but because of concentrating on the wind I was at the top near an obelisk, before I felt comfortable to stop. John did not appear and I was sitting in the middle of nowhere. I was comfortable that the group had stopped as well, but I didn’t know how far ahead they were. With the knowledge that the roadbed split north and southbound lanes, I didn’t feel comfortable going back, for fear of passing John without being able to see him. So ... I went on and in about five miles, I found the balance of the second group. They told me that the fast group was on the road to Creel. It was decided that we would send folks back at one minute intervals in case someone saw John and the folks in front had missed him. If you lost the guy behind you, you were to assume that John had been found. Complicated, perhaps, but in the heat of the battle, it seemed like the best plan. Micah, Ray and Mike headed back ... Micah returned, no luck ... Ray returned, John had been located. We headed back, again at 1 minute intervals in case Mike and John got back on the road and missed us. To make a long story short, John’s saga had started with a flat, then a pinched tube and by the time we found him, he was borrowed a wrench from Micah and was cleaning sand from his float bowl. Well, getting the slower herd of cats (plus 1) together and back on the road in the same timeslot had set us back about 2 to 2 1/2 hours, if I remember correctly. [/QUOTE]
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