Just thought I'd let you guys know how the Round Up went. We left at 5:30 on Monday morning and made it until just outside of Nashville before we had a flat. The tire that I had plugged before our December meeting blew. Shows why you shouldn't plug sidewalls regardless of how close they are to the tread. I had it changed before it deflated and we managed to pull off quickly to a rest area. I re-plugged it when we got settled for the night in Nashville but I think I overinflated it... no matter we made it to Dallas the next night and on Wednesday morning we hit 4wheelparts and had them replace the tire and rotate them. Then we struck out across Texas to Katemcy. We checked into our B+B in Mason which happened to be a really nice little down with a few good restraunts and a winery. We went up to the Kruse's park and registered Wednesday night and then tried to get a good nights sleep after our 1650 mile trip. Wednesday morning we ran the Aggie highway with Randy Kruse at the helm and about 20 vehicles of assorted 40s, 45s, 60s, Minitrucks from stock to buggies. Katemcy is a beautiful park and it very clean and well maintained by the Kruse family. My truck was feeling pretty tippy after the spring over but the extra clearance was much appreciated. On the second day I was running the Waterfall trail and feeling really confident of my truck's abilities. It helped a lot to be following Henry and David in their built up wagons. Friday night was the raffle and BBQ. Saturday morning a lot of the more modestly built cruisers went home so Becky and I took off with Chris and Marty Jones in their stock 80. I figured I'd gone the whole two previous days with no damage I'd best not push things. We went and saw the haybales which are these big ballanced rocks and I climbed "the crack" with good confidence. It helped that Todd Kaderabek had spotted me up on the first day.
We met some really nice people and did some great wheeling. Too bad next year I'll be on Korea. Here are my pictures:
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I'll be waiting for others to post their images once they get home over the next few days.
Keep your fingers crossed for me on the trip back up to DC. See you guys in April.
Ross
We met some really nice people and did some great wheeling. Too bad next year I'll be on Korea. Here are my pictures:
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I'll be waiting for others to post their images once they get home over the next few days.
Keep your fingers crossed for me on the trip back up to DC. See you guys in April.
Ross