Riding the 3 Sisters

March 10th I wake up hardly having slept at all. The reason? Probably too eager to get started on my trip to the Texas Hill Country to ride the famed trinity, 337, 335, and 336. If you don't ride or aren't from that part of the state those numbers likely don't mean very much. But if you are in that small group that knows the signifance of those roads or better yet have actually ridden the trinity, you know why the mention of those roads is enough to bring a smile to any rider's face.

Tucked away South of Kerrville and West of San Antonio is some of the most beautiful country the Lone Star State has to offer. Dramatic landscapes, rivers, valleys, hills, and gorgeous roads.

I've uploaded a sampling of pictures taken during the trip and they're available here:

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Our trip started at a Starbuck's. Jim, a friend who shares the love of motorcycles, flew in to Dallas and rented a fantastic FZ6 for the trip. We were joined by Bill who I met through twtex.com, a great site for Texas riders. Bill was only able to join us for the first day as he was trying to get to San Antonio.

Here we are getting ready to leave Starbuck's:

Day one came to about 350 miles. Big thanks to Stephen for an excellent route recommendation to get us to Bandera. Toward the end of the day Bill suggested we stop for pie in Medina and boy, that apple pie really hit the spot.


Day two started with a gorgeous morning, a little foggy but it soon cleared to a beautiful day with clear blue skies. Our route took us along 337 from Vanderpool to Leakey and on to Camp Wood.

From Camp Wood we went North on 336 to 41. We took 41 East to 335 and headed back South towards Leakey.






By end of the day we were pretty much done in and had clocked about 250 or so miles. The scenery was incredible and we couldn't have asked for better conditions.



Day three found us pretty worn out and eager to head back home. Jim had a flight out of Dallas that evening so we had to make pretty good time. We took a more direct route put still managed to make a few good stops.


The final total came in at just a bit shy of a thousand miles and the last couple of hours were hard on the backside, but we hadn't been off the bikes for more than half an hour before we started talking about when we might be able to do it again. Hopefully I'll have a chance to do it again this coming fall and who knows, maybe Jim and I will make it a yearly event.