10am when I pulled out this morning, running a little late. Up the road about 50 miles I met with RedShad and Big Ed, they had been waiting on my late running ass and I had to start the day out with a lie to smooth things. We did some circles on the Walmart parking to get our GPS's sync'd with the satellites for the short East Tx area and hit that hwy 80. After several miles we exited and noticed some riders approaching the 4 way stop. It was the damn BJay, HoneyJay, and KB, the sil. We visited a while and BJay revealed he had a screw in his front tire that needed a decision. The decision was to check the air and ignore it and run a few miles together. First we had to fuel up our youthful bodies and did so at the Cotton Gin Restaurant in Crandall. The Cotton Gin has some reserved parking for motorcycles and there were a few others there when we arrived. We had a very tasty meal and I'll sure try that place again. When you run into someone you haven't seen in awhile it takes another while to tell the stories, etc. We got that done and went to the parking lot and talked some more about the screw BJay had picked up in his front tire. We hemhawed about the solution and decided the screw was one of the better plugs made and decided to leave it as is. We did restrict BJay speed, account the screw, to Big Ed speed. That way BJay would be at a safe speed and Big Ed would have company, RedShad and the rest of us were going to run. It wasn't long until BJay grew tired of the speed restrictions and joined us up front, saying he would just keep an eye on the screw. Big Ed got lonely and spun up the big V4 so we could run as a group, sporadically I should say. We stopped by the motorcycle place in Terrell and listened to some pipes. I had to plow so we headed in after a nice day of riding, very enjoyable. BJay tell your kin they acted right and I'm glad I got to meet them. I took a couple of pics and just grouped them in with some I shot the last few days of area rides - [URL]http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfsj975x_133db4rk7[/URL] ....louie