FM 674

[EGRG]

Just had a nice little ride to Rocksprings Tx. Returned to Bracketville on FM 674.
Great little road with lots of scenery and little traffic. More deer than cars.
Had a lot of fun learning to ride again.

[montmil]

Bracketville... Where the original "Alamo" movie was filmed, as in "The Duke".

Some fine roads in your area. How's about some occasional pics?

Monte

[EGRG]

I will now that it has rained a little. It just broke my heart to see how dry the area was. I will start taking some pictures also of some roads down here across the border in Mexico. Taking it easy on the R65 LS, but I use it daily. Great bike for around town. Nobody is used to seeing the cylinders sticking out like that where I live.

[Lucky_Lou]

I will now that it has rained a little. It just broke my heart to see how dry the area was. I will start taking some pictures also of some roads down here across the border in Mexico. Taking it easy on the R65 LS, but I use it daily. Great bike for around town. Nobody is used to seeing the cylinders sticking out like that where I live.

Ahh re the Alamo quite a shock standing at the front door looking at Woolworths when i visited.. wheres JW when you need him.
Theres a great place to visit here in the UK on bikes, Matlock Bath
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=matlock+bath&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4ADRA_enGB450GB450&biw=1366&bih=641&site=webhp&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Tsq1TrmaM8mSOsPctPgB&sqi=2&ved=0CFQQsAQ
the main drag was full of Hardleys with Gertie parked in the middle of them when we had a Gabfest meet Steve H was there, tourists were taking photos of the R65 ignoring the chrome much to the annoyance of the tattooed fly eaters.
Rain you want Rain we accept asylum seekers from anywhere here except them that want to work....... had a months worth of the wet stuff yesterday
Lou

[EGRG]

For some reason i find myself riding alone in the early evening on the LS on roads that i have known all my life but never on a motorcycle. Have now a little more than 1000 miles on the bike and am fixing little details. Enjoy every minute around and on the darn thing.

[montmil]

My late father-in-law was a P-51 driver in the 3rd Air Commando Group working the S'West Pacific theatre during "The Big One". He did some training in the under-performing, rear-engined, P-39 while stationed in Eagle Pass. I have some of his flight logs books along with a Japanese pilot's kneeboard.

He did relate, while out on "free" training flights in the wide open spaces, that automobiles would actually leave he road when he made low, head-on passes at them. At that "altitude", heading and speed, it was impossible for the car driver to catch any ID number on the aircraft but hqtrs was constantly admonishing the students to, "straighten up and fly right". Didn't happen.

Monte

[EGRG]

It sure is a small world.
There´s a Wikipedia article on the old air force training field in Eagle Pass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Pass_Air_Force_Station
The site is the actual local airport and and still has a old Hangar from that period.
You can see the pictures in Google Earth it is marked Radar Base  or Eagle Pass airport

[Ed Miller]

Bracketville... Where the original "Alamo" movie was filmed, as in "The Duke".

Some fine roads in your area. How's about some occasional pics?

Monte

Is that the one with the theme song by Marty Robbins?  Man he was a good singer.

[montmil]

You're very close, Cousin Ed.

Marty Robbins did have a huge hit single in 1960, "The Ballad of the Alamo" that was inspired by the 1960 movie "The Alamo" starring John Wayne. However...

...in the movie, the "Ballad of the Alamo" was sung by an off screen, uncredited chorus.
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin and Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053580/soundtrack

Lyrics from "Ballad of the Alamo" by Marty Robbins
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/robbins-marty/ballad-of-the-alamo-11894.html

Monte

[Bengt_Phorqs]

Couldn't put my hands on my original 1960 Alamo soundtrack but I'm pretty sure that the "unknown chorus" was a folk group called "The Brothers Four".  Wish I could find that album.  I probably wore it out although I never much cared for John Wayne's characterization of David Crockett.

[Ed Miller]

Couldn't put my hands on my original 1960 Alamo soundtrack but I'm pretty sure that the "unknown chorus" was a folk group called "The Brothers Four".  Wish I could find that album.  I probably wore it out although I never much cared for John Wayne's characterization of David Crockett.

I think I may have it....  I know they did "The Green Leaves of Summer" on that album.  Nice song.

Disclaimer:  I wasn't even born when that movie was made!  I just like old music.

[EGRG]

Been Away from Forum and regret it.
Promised to post some pictures from Mexico. This one is a start.
It is my home town in Piedras Negras at the Plaza in front of City Hall

[EGRG]

Riding towards the little town of San Carlos. Sunsets are addictive.

[EGRG]

At San Carlos on a Sunday evening the kids go to the store for soft drinks on horseback.

[montmil]

¡Muchas gracias, Victor! Nice ones. [smiley=beerchug.gif]