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Grumpy and fellow bikers left Corpus Christi for a bike rally in Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas, Mexico, Friday morning, March 6th. Besides myself, Lefty, Dale and Sapo came along. In case you wonder, pictures in this post are of different sizes because they were taken by different people with different cameras. This was a stag trip. Mary made a dentist's visit to Mexico the same weekend and Sandi wasn't keen on going without Mary. Imagine that, someone would prefer getting a root canal to going to a Mexican bike rally!
This post has a lot of pictures so I hope you have a good Internet connection.
We picked up Rick on our way through Pharr. Crossing the border at Rio Bravo was slow, mostly because 6 or 8 people were in line ahead of us doing paperwork. Everybody eventually got papers and we headed on, stopping for lunch before we left Reynosa.
The ride to Ciudad Victoria is typical northern Mexico, flat, dry, long, straight roads, reasonable traffic. It's about 160 miles from Corpus to the border, then another 200 to Ciudad Victoria. Being spring, bug counts were low, at least until we pulled away from our last gas stop before arriving in Victoria. I usually ride with the visor up on my helmet because it's cooler and quieter and the windshield blocks most of the wind and bugs. However, a bee managed to find the opening in my helmet and clobbered me right on the bridge of my nose, splattering all over my face and forehead and managing to sting me thoroughly in the process. It felt like someone whacked me in the head with a stick. Needless to say, I was rather grumpy.
We arrived in Cd. Victoria about 5:00 and found our way across town to the rally. It was held in a big lot behind a defunct nightclub, the Disco Pachá, on the north side of town. We pulled in, registered ($P300, about $20), dug the stinger out of my nose, then went across the street to see how much the rooms were at the Hampton Inn. Two rooms, two nights split five ways worked out to $P700 ($50) apiece. Not bad. I know, no local color in staying there.
We went looking for supper and wound up at a taco place half a block up the street from the rally. We should've walked Afterwards, it was visiting with people at the rally till we decided to go to bed.
The mayor of Reynosa showed up on his motorcycle with a police escort and entourage and the governor of the state of Tamaulipas also came to the rally. You may be interested to know the guv rides a Triumph, a new Rocket III, and also travels with a police escort. Lefty saw him at the hotel and commented later on how good his cologne smelled. Lefty took a lot of grief over the weekend for that remark.
This post has a lot of pictures so I hope you have a good Internet connection.

We picked up Rick on our way through Pharr. Crossing the border at Rio Bravo was slow, mostly because 6 or 8 people were in line ahead of us doing paperwork. Everybody eventually got papers and we headed on, stopping for lunch before we left Reynosa.
The ride to Ciudad Victoria is typical northern Mexico, flat, dry, long, straight roads, reasonable traffic. It's about 160 miles from Corpus to the border, then another 200 to Ciudad Victoria. Being spring, bug counts were low, at least until we pulled away from our last gas stop before arriving in Victoria. I usually ride with the visor up on my helmet because it's cooler and quieter and the windshield blocks most of the wind and bugs. However, a bee managed to find the opening in my helmet and clobbered me right on the bridge of my nose, splattering all over my face and forehead and managing to sting me thoroughly in the process. It felt like someone whacked me in the head with a stick. Needless to say, I was rather grumpy.
We arrived in Cd. Victoria about 5:00 and found our way across town to the rally. It was held in a big lot behind a defunct nightclub, the Disco Pachá, on the north side of town. We pulled in, registered ($P300, about $20), dug the stinger out of my nose, then went across the street to see how much the rooms were at the Hampton Inn. Two rooms, two nights split five ways worked out to $P700 ($50) apiece. Not bad. I know, no local color in staying there.

We went looking for supper and wound up at a taco place half a block up the street from the rally. We should've walked Afterwards, it was visiting with people at the rally till we decided to go to bed.

The mayor of Reynosa showed up on his motorcycle with a police escort and entourage and the governor of the state of Tamaulipas also came to the rally. You may be interested to know the guv rides a Triumph, a new Rocket III, and also travels with a police escort. Lefty saw him at the hotel and commented later on how good his cologne smelled. Lefty took a lot of grief over the weekend for that remark.