Monday, September 15, 2014

1 Great Ride, 2 Giraffes, 3 Sisters and more - Not necessarily in that order.

So let's get the "and more" part out of the way.  

We left Kerrville Texas to ride some great "motorcycle roads" that Jane had tracked down.  A few miles from Kerrville is the little town of Ingram Texas and in that town they have a life size recreation of Stonehenge, we didn't stop to get a picture of it but thanks to the internet I found the following picture of it.


A few miles down the road from Ingram, out in the boonies basically, we saw a field with a creation dubbed as thronehenge.  We couldn't resist taking a picture.  You frequently hear it said of someone that they are outstanding in their field, but rarely hear it said of someone that they are outsitting in their field, there's probably a very good reason for that....


A little farther down the road we came across the Double Creek Ranch and some of their old equipment on display.


This is some more of their equipment on display.


Now for the 3 sisters part of our day.  Jane found this area listed as a great place to take a motorcycle ride.  The ride included farm road 335 and ranch roads 336 and 337, dubbed the three sisters




Along the way we came by some interesting places.  The following wall ran along the roadside for at least a half a mile and had a large gate at the entrance with the name Las Palmas.  The wall was topped with broke glass bottles, presumably to discourage people from climbing over the wall. 

A quick internet search shows that this farm has a history of being a very modern Arabian horse breeding farm known as Gleannloch Farms.


A little farther down the road we found a ranch with a couple of giraffes, in Texas!  Actually there quite a few exotic animals in ranches all over the hill country in Texas.  They are kept on the ranches with eight foot high fences.  

Some of these ranches offer hunters a chance to hunt these exotics and not have to travel to Africa, which is the natural home for most of them.


Here is view of some of the roadway we traveled today.  There are some really nice hills in this part of the state.