Save the Date: Hill Country Back Roads Tour - Feb 21, 2009

[dmericas]

In the spirit of Britalian comraderie, Elizabeth and I want to invite the Hill Country Alfa/Coffee & Cars crowd to join us for a tour of the hill country on February 21, 2009. We'll start at our place in Hudson Bend for a light breakfast, pause in Blanco for a leg stretch/rest stop, and end in Wimberley for lunch. The usual obsessive attention to detail will be provided in route instructions.

This is a Hill Country Triumphs Club event, but they're pretty decent people once you get to know them, and besides, its OUR event so we'll invite whomever we want. Once you recognize them as devotees of Michelotti, you'll know they are our breathern

Details will follow in a subsequent post.

Put it on your calendar and please let us know if you plan to attend so we can make sure there's enough breakfast for all and we have a big enough room reserved for lunch.

Dean

[Anfanuts]

Dean, thanks for thinking of us! I believe we (K & I) just did some of that route in reverse this past Spring. It's nice. We started out Wimberley way (late start and lunch), did Canyon lake around east side & back, and then headed to Blanco, then home via 183
/71 (nearby for us). All back roads except for the last leg home. Blanco has a small brewery (Blanco Real Ale, they make the Fireman's #4 that I had in the keg). Have marked it! B&KI

[Alfamante]

Dean,

Enjoyed seeing your Triumph at January's coffee. Look forward to hearing more. Weather permitting, I am definately interested.

J. K.

[AlfaVeloce]

Gonna "miss it by that much." I will be in town the previous weekend, for youngest son's Eagle Scout ceremony and also for Valentine's day because I want to stay married.

[dmericas]

The tour will start at Dean & Elizabeth Mericas’ house in Hudson Bend (directions below) with a light breakfast and socializing. We’ll cover about 100 miles of paved back roads southwest and south of Blanco, along the Devil’s Backbone, and arrive in Wimberley for lunch.

We ran the route this weekend to confirm the roads are open and in relatively good shape. Most of the route is lightly traveled ranch roads through very scenic countryside. A bit of rough pavement in places and one stretch with close encounters of the bovine kind.

We’re providimg breakfast at the start and reserving a room at Juan and Enrique's restaurant in Wimberley for lunch, so we need an accurate head count.

Please RSVP to Elizabeth Mericas - emericas@austin.rr.com or call 512-291-6775.

Breakfast: 8:00 – 9:00 am (everything will be provided)

Drivers Meeting: 8:45 am

Depart: 9:00 am

Break: ~10:15 in Blanco

Lunch: 12:30 pm in Wimberley

Bring your GMRS / FRS 2-way radio if you have one - we’ll use Chan­nel 10.

Directions:

Address: 16904 Upper Woods Cove

No matter what direction you are coming from, you will need to get to RR 620. We live near Lakeway in Hudson Bend, a peninsula that juts out into Lake Travis. Hudson Bend is south of the Marshall Ford dam.
We live near the tip of it, off the road that takes you to Carlos N’ Char­lies.

Going south on 620: Shortly after you pass the Marshall Ford dam on your right (you can’t miss it), get into the right-hand lane. At the first traffic light after the dam, take a right onto Hudson Bend Road.

Going north on 620: Take a left onto Hudson Bend Road (red light). A huge FIREWORKS store will be on your right at the traffic light. Hud­son Bend Road is the first street after the restaurant Hudson’s on the Bend (red picnic benches in front of restaurant).

Continue up Hudson Bend Road, pass the marina supply stores, junky storage stuff and Hacienda RV Park. You will pass a pool company on your right and immediately come to a “Y” of sorts in the road. There’s a tendency to go straight. Don’t. There will be a sign directing you left to Hiline Road/Rocky Ridge. Go left. You will pass two houses on your right, then take a quick right onto Hiline Road. Huge electrical towers run along Hiline Road.

Continue on Hiline Road. Take the second left at Trail of the Woods. The entrance sign says Woods of Lake Travis.

Take the second left onto Upper Woods Cove, a small cul-de-sac. We are the first house on the left, a terra-cotta stone/stucco house with a metal roof. On street parking and in the driveway.

Hope you all can join us.

[dmericas]

We're about a week out from the Hill Country tour, and I wanted to reiterate the invitation to the AlfaBB/C&C crowd to plan on joining us. If you can make it, please send in your RSVP so Elizabeth knows how big a breakfast cassarole to make and I know how many donuts to buy.

Hope to see you all.

Dean