The Three Sisters

There are 3 great motorcycling roads in South TX called The Three Sisters, or The Twisted Sisters.  The roads are Ranch Road 335, 336, and 337.  The roads create, roughly, a 120 mile loop (if you include their step sister, TX-41).

Kent and I started with RR336 at about 12:30 today, after leaving Austin around 7:45 this morning.



RR336 is literally a road through a ranch, with cattle guards included.  She was by far the curviest of the 3 girls, and an excellent way to begin this section of our ride.

I'm sure my mom won't like the photos below, but we didn't think that was a very high number considering the number of motorcycle riders that travel these roads every year.

 

 

The second of the sisters was RR337.  She was fairly straight and shorter than the other two ladies.  We were running low on gas after this one, so it was a good thing there was a gas station in Camp Wood.  Rider beware...this was the only gas stop we saw on the loop.  There's also a nice looking biker bar & grill in town, but we didn't have time to stop.  We had our sights set on the Alamo Springs Cafe near Luckenbach.

The last of the sisters was RR335, and she was like a roller coaster.  This one consisted of a lot of straight aways with hills that would take your stomach at the pinnacle, and the g-force would push you down into your seat at the bottom.  Of course it takes speeds of 60 to 75 miles an hour to accomplish this sensation, but it was the closest thing to Six Flags, without all the long lines and bratty kids.  We came up on a couple of guys on full dressers doing about 40.  I'm sure they were having a great day too, but they really don't know what they missed.

The step-sister, TX-41 is a necessary evil.  She runs between high-fence exotic ranches, so there's no concern of a deer jumping out in front of you.  She's made for speed and we found a little while we were shooting back to complete the loop in exactly 2 hours.