2025 Taco Run & MCGTTX

4月 2025

My first attempt at the Bun Burner 1500--1500 miles in less than 36 hours--as I ride from Cincinnati to Medicine Park for Small Mountain Street Tacos' 7th Annual Taco Run! Then another 5,300 miles to complete the Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas! もっと詳しく

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Nancy Webb...Pat Bonetar 2025 Taco Run & MCGTTX
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- 2025年4月19日土曜日 20:00
- 🌧 72 °F
- 海抜: 712 フィート
- アメリカ Denton 33.231532, -97.17620133°13’54” N 97°10’34” W
MCGTTX Day 7
4月19日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 72 °F
This morning I woke up at 0300 worried about the weather. You see, my plan was to get up at 0400 and leave at 0430 to do an Iron Butt Association's Egg Hunt 1000 Gold. This 1000-mile minimum ride can only be done on Easter weekend. But I knew the weather was going to roll in; I just didn't know how bad it would be.

At 0300, the forecast called for severe thunderstorms at 0500, with the front moving North Northeast pushing 40 mph winds and even higher gusts. My route was headed due north on I-35 almost to Nebraska. I debated with myself for about 15 minutes, thinking if I left before 0400, maybe I could beat the worst of it. Then I realized that if I had to debate this for so long, I probably shouldn't go. So I went back to sleep.

Therefore, all I did today was watch Netflix and eat leftover pizza 🤣.

Another great day! 🤣🤣🤣

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- 日11
- 2025年4月20日日曜日 21:33
- 🌙 64 °F
- 海抜: 502 フィート
- アメリカ 32.798346, -97.17821332°47’54” N 97°10’42” W
MCGTTX Day 8--Easter Sunday
4月20日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 64 °F
I left the hotel around 0900 to hit my photo stops and dealerships in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the "DFW Metroplex" we call it. 150 miles and several hours later, I was at my brother Matt and sister-in-law Katie's house with her mother Lisa and two Golden Retrievers, Lily the sweetheart and Daisy the psychopath 🤣 (true though).

Even though I had hit some rain in North Dallas earlier, the weather was cool, dry, and sunny, perfect for sitting on the porch with a cold drink and chatting.

Around 1600 we went to The Hacienda Ranch for an awesome TexMex meal. I had the "Favorite": two cheese enchiladas covered in their chili [which is not made with cinnamon or beans, you crazy Cincinnati people], and topped with diced steak and grilled onions and peppers. Yummy 🤤🤤🤤!!

Afterwards, we went by our parents' house to see the progress my brother has made with the estate. (We just lost Mom last year and Dad back in 2020.) It was heartbreaking to see the house so empty--the only house they ever owned and the only house we grew up in--with only a few knickknacks in boxes to get rid of. But he's done a wonderful job with the yard and fence and the place is well on its way to be a rental property.

Then it was back to their house, where Lisa said goodbye and the three of us just hung out for the rest of the evening while I did my laundry.

Now I've had a shower and am definitely ready for bed.

The great days just keep coming 👏👏👏.

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P.S.: Matt let me try coconut Dr. Pepper. OMG IS IT AMAZING!!! Particularly with some Tito's vodka in it 🤣🤣.もっと詳しく
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- 2025年4月21日月曜日 21:53
- 🌙 73 °F
- 海抜: 62 フィート
- アメリカ Corpus Christi 27.758925, -97.46148527°45’32” N 97°27’41” W
MCGTTX Day 9
4月21日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 73 °F
Since Matt and Katie had to work this morning, I was up at 0430 to finish packing my laundry and getting ready to roll. I left them about 0545 with big hugs until I'm back in Texas.

As soon as I got on the highway at 0600, I was battling traffic: truckers not looking before changing lanes or if they look not caring if anyone is there, people going 10 mph under the speed limit in the left lane texting or holding their phone to their ear, and just the normal too many cars in too few lanes all going the same direction at the same time with the one asshole that keeps changing lanes trying to get ahead of everyone and just fucking everything up worse.

This was my entire day. I got to Corpus Christi at 2030 after spending most of the day on and around I-35. Nightmare. So I ate at Whataburger and am now camped at the Harley dealership down the street. I'm exhausted but I don't know how much rest I'll be able to get because the humidity is about 99%, everything is wet including my phone screen as I type this, and there is no breeze. I'm doomed.

Not a great day, by I did meet another rider at a stop and a very nice couple chatted with me at another one. Also not a great day because, although the weather was clear, it was only 45°F when I left Fort Worth 🥶 and over 90°F when I finally had to change boots under a tree while drinking Gatorade 🥵. And now I'm just lying here sticking to my cot 😰. Ugh

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- 2025年4月22日火曜日 21:29
- ⛅ 75 °F
- 海抜: 702 フィート
- アメリカ Rusk 31.79478, -95.11866631°47’41” N 95°7’7” W
MCGTTX Day 10
4月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
I broke camp and left Corpus Christi HD just after 0600. I rode down to the shore area to eat at the Whataburger that has the founder's statue inside 🤣. There were a lot of homeless around that area, and before I even got off the bike, one was asking me for cash. I never give out cash, and told him I didn't have any, but he could come inside with me and I'd buy him breakfast. He was very happy with that. And he said he was an Air Force vet, so double cool.

I was out of town just at sunrise (0700), but it was completely overcast, so no view 😥. I hit a bit of rain sprinkles for a little while, but nothing significant.

The worst part of today is that I couldn't shake the trucks. Every single road I was on today, there they were being assholes. Even the tiny two-lane back roads. There they were, over the center line because they don't fit in the narrow lanes.

But despite the semis and the farm trucks that also dick around in the left lane, I cruised photo stop after photo stop. It seemed like it would never end (and technically it still hasn't), but I made it a whole lot of miles to this KOA in Rusk, TX, where I figured I'd grab a tent space and bathroom for $25. Of course, I soon discovered that the whole area for the tents and cabins is sand, so after a heart thumping, inch-by-inch, 3-point turn in gravel, I'm camped under the pavilion by the office and bathrooms. I'll be gone before they even realize I was here anyway.

Not a great day, but I made a whole lot of stops.

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- 2025年4月24日木曜日 0:18
- ☁️ 66 °F
- 海抜: 1,184 フィート
- アメリカ Edmond 35.621625, -97.48919735°37’18” N 97°29’21” W
MCGTTX Day 11
4月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
About 1100 miles today, I think. Will have to verify once I get home. Just busted ass all day to avoid the rain. Stayed dry, but I may get rained on tonight . Brilliant plan of mine: camp at the Harley dealership. It's right next to the train tracks 😭. Oh well. One just went by. Maybe another won't until after I get some sleep.

Night.

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Update: Here's a bit more about yesterday now that I'm conscious. It's 1030 🤣.

I rolled out of the KOA "kampground" just after 0600. It was pretty slow going until sunrise when I stopped for fuel--both for me and for the bike--around 0730. Looking at the weather radar, I was positive I was going to get soaked, but with the warmth, I decided to forego the rain gear.

Really glad I did, too. I hit some sprinkles at 0919, then nothing. Nada. I managed, by lucky alone, to skirt past every cell that loomed. After reaching Roughneck HD in Longview at 0900, I realized I wasn't booked at the hotel until Thursday night...and the hotel was only 100 miles away.

So, I decided to run up to northern Kansas to grab another HOG 15 Rides photo. Then I realized that if I rode hard, I could turn the day into an Iron Butt SaddleSore 1000. So I did 😁. Which is why I was pitching my tent so late last night.

But success! Not only did I get the pic. I missed all the rain. All of it. Yay me!!

I won't be as lucky today, for sure 😥.

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P.S.: I knew the weather was going to be dodgy because of the old saying, "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning." My pic is the bet I could get for sunrise.もっと詳しく
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- 2025年4月24日木曜日 15:37
- 🌧 72 °F
- 海抜: 568 フィート
- アメリカ Greenville 33.097429, -96.10245533°5’51” N 96°6’9” W
MCGTTX Day 12
4月24日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 72 °F
If you can believe it, I didn't get soaked today 😱. Despite a train every 25 minutes or so, I did get some rest last night. But when my alarm went off at 0530, it was pouring. At about 0630 the lightning and thunder pounded across Oklahoma City while I stayed in my tent.

At 0900, the rain finally sputtered down to adjust a few sprinkles here and there, so I opened my tent flap. Apparently I parked in a Caliber Collision person's spot because they were parked only a couple of feet off my back bumper 🫤, and I remember hearing a bang earlier, which must have been their POS car door. [You work at a repair shop, dude. Fix your car 🤦.]

Anyway, I rolled at 0930, eager to be gone and glad that no one confronted me about being there. I was in such a rush that I forgot to tie my boots. But I was in such a rush to get to a bathroom that I didn't care 🤣🤣🤣.

I looked for a gas station along my route, and I find a Love's truck stop. Perfect! I get free coffee there. I can have a hot breakfast. And they usually have fairly decent restrooms. 19 miles away. I can do this. And I did. Barely 🤣🤣.

Yes, free coffee, hot breakfast burrito, take my meds, brush my teeth, wash my face, make some phone calls, update last night's Day 11 post, and check the weather. Crap.

150 miles to go. It's warm. I don't need rain gear. That's usually my famous last words before I get soaked. But not today!! I missed all the bad stuff except some wet roads, road spray, and just enough drops to put my visor down here and there. Yay!

Now the bike is parked under the overhang at the hotel and I had DoorDash bring me some Shiner Bock beer. Yessir, how d'ya do!!

Not a terrible day.

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P.S.: How is it legal to have Texas plates on your car and boast an OU emblem? And you drive like shit, too. Get off my ass or I'll go even slower, traitor. 🖕もっと詳しく
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- 2025年4月25日金曜日 19:13
- ⛅ 79 °F
- 海抜: 568 フィート
- アメリカ Greenville 33.097465, -96.10248933°5’51” N 96°6’9” W
MCGTTX Day 13--Complete!
4月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
Today, I rented a car so I could go to my RV. The roads to it are either dirt or badly paved, plus my gravel driveway is completely overgrown, so I figured it would be safer to just take a car than to try to maneuver this massive motorcycle down there. It worked out well, and the RV and barn are just fine.

After I returned the rental, I grabbed my final 😁 MCGTTX photo at the Audie Murphy Museum (https://maps.app.goo.gl/BzUiT3bN3iXoZ2XN8). I've been here before, but never inside. It looks really cool.

Now I'm at the hotel finishing the pizza and wings I ordered yesterday. Tomorrow I head back to Kentucky.

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- 2025年4月26日土曜日 23:37
- ☁️ 48 °F
- 海抜: 686 フィート
- アメリカ Campbell County 38.94542, -84.29153538°56’44” N 84°17’30” W
MCGTTX Day 14 & Last
4月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 48 °F
I got up this morning at 0430 and was rolling at 0500. My first photo stop was the Arkansas 15 Rides location at the Oark Cafe. I hit a couple of HDs as well, although I skipped several others to avoid traffic. I hit a 30+-minute parking lot on I-40 in Memphis, something to do with a group of crotch rockets and a pickup truck.

However, the biggest thing I did today was make it all the way from Greenville TX to California KY, about 1200 miles. Very glad to be in my own comfy bed, which is where I am right now 😁.

Well, that's a wrap on this trip.
- Best part: Seeing my brother and sister-in-law for Easter and my uncle and aunt when I checked on my RV yesterday.
- Worst part: Truckers.

My bike's trip meter says the 17 days (14 riding days) covered 8841.9 miles. Whoosh. Not the Hoka Hey but pretty respectable.

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