From: joe@zx11.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: HERE IT IS: Texas SplatterFest V1, #4
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:16:01 GMT
Reply-To: joe@zx11.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Organization: NOT


                           Texas SplatterFest
                           Volume 1, Issue #4

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   The Texas SplatterFest is open to anyone. You do _not_ need to be a DoD
member to attend. Please copy this and pass it around to your riding friends,
the more people in attendance the better. Fest planning has improved 
substantially since the last time, and this fest promises to be quite a 
success if we get enough people to show up. 


When:  The weekend of October 17
Where: Blue Hole Campground, Wimberley Texas
Who:   Anyone can come
Why:   Need you ask?


The General Plan:

   This fest will concentrate more on post riding festivities and comradery
and be quite a bit simpler on the official ride specifics. SplatterFest 1.4
will consist of a loosely organized ride saturday in the Texas hill country,
followed by a campout at the Blue Hole campground in Wimberley saturday night.
Sunday morning will be spent breaking camp, leaving sunday afternoon for return
travel. The ride will start at 10:00 saturday morning from the campground.
Fest organizers will be there at 9:30. We'll have facilities to look after
your camping or other gear so you can leave it at the campsite for the day's
ride. You can show up at 10:00, do the ride, and leave if you like, camping
is not a requirement.

   You can come to Austin friday night if you like, as before I'll try to
make some arrangements for accomodations for those who wish to do that. We
will leave from my house at 8:30 bound for the campground. e-mail me if
that's what you need to do.

   You will be provided with maps of the area that will show a suggested
route of sufficiently winding and scenic roads and will provide some indication 
of available gas stops on the more desolate parts of the trip.

   This fest will also feature a treasure hunt for saturday's ride. You'll be
given a treasure hunt clue sheet which in combination with your keen senses
and highly observant nature will allow you to locate hidden coupons along the
route. These coupons will be redeemable for prizes back at the campsite.
Unclaimed prizes will be awarded via drawing later on. The treasure hunt
will depend on the turnout, read on for more info.


More Specific Details:

   The ride will officially start from the entrance to the campsite at
10:00am saturday morning. We will have cage space at the campsite to hold your 
gear while you're out riding saturday. We'll set up shop in the parking lot 
at the entrance to the campground hopefully no later than 9:30 saturday 
morning. When you arrive at the lot you'll receive a packet that will contain 
maps of the ride area, your campground ticket, name tags to put on your gear,
your prize clue sheet, and meal tickets. If you're game, use the clue sheet to
find the coupons along the route. If you don't like mysteries, unclaimed
prizes will be given away via drawing saturday night after all riders return.


The Bad News:

   In order to reserve camp space and to purchase the correct amount of food,
you will need to pay a fest fee of $15 up front. 

          ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY THE FEST FEE TO ATTEND **. 

Here's what you'll get with the fest fee:

    * Camping space at the Blue Hole campground.
    * Name tags for gear you want to leave at the campsite during the day.
    * Detailed maps of the ride area, marked with known gas stops.
    * Saturday dinner - chili, kaiser roll, 2 sodas.
    * Sunday breakfast - scrambled eggs, bacon, orange juice.
      (there will be bottled drinking water and coffee available as well)
    * A sampling of our astounding culinary skills. 

   Don't miss out on the riding. If you don't want to pay the fest fees, come
anyway. you will be on your own for meals and the camping fee, and you can't
win any prizes, but you came for the roads anyway, right? if you want to skip 
the Fest fee and just wing it, e-mail me and I'll give you the scoop on the 
campsite's fees.

   Being a private organization, the campground has a fairly wierd system
in place for camping fees (it's actually cheaper for 12 people than for 13
by a significant amount). The $15 fee includes a camp fee that shoots at the 
middle as far as where I expect the actual camping fee to be. Any overages 
will go into the prize fund. Any underages will be figured out on the fly :)
The treasure hunt is really designed to use up the left over funds so it's
obviously tied very closely to the turnout. If only a few people show up,
then there won't be a treasure hunt, and overages, if any, will be returned.

   The maps will show the suggested route for the day, but will be of the 
entire area so you can run off on your own if you like. The general plan for 
this ride is to have a suggested route, and a suggested meeting place for 
lunch, but not to expect everyone to travel together in one mob. That's 
certainly not to say you're on your own. I fully expect some packs to form 
since that sort of thing can be just as fun. The route will allow sufficient 
time between planned stops for you to take a scenic pace and enjoy the scenery.
If you want to take a more aggressive ride, you can make up your own route or 
just beat everyone to the stops :-) the maps will indicate major gas stops 
along the suggested route.

   The suggested lunch stop will be in Bandera at 1:30. A good spot for meeting
is the lot of the closed business on the souteast corner of 173 and 16. It's 
the main intersection where you pick up 16 and near the Bandera water tower so 
it shouldn't be hard to find (just follow 173 through town to the 16 turnoff).
There is a BBQ place across the street and up a few doors, or there's a DQ a 
few blocks up 16. There's also several smaller greasy spoon places along the 
main street. There's shade on part of the lot so you could also pack a lunch 
if you're on a budget.

   After the lunch stop the schedule relaxes a little. Just be back to
the campsite at a decent hour to catch some dinner and partake of the
conversation. You'll need to affix your campsite sticker when you get to
the campground so don't lose it. The suggested route should put you
back at the campground around 4:30 or so. Prize dispersal won't be until
after all riders return so we don't give away the wrong stuff.

   We'll spend sunday morning killing breakfast and breaking camp. The noon
departure time will leave plenty of travel home time for everyone.


The Suggested Route:

   Starting from Wimberley, take 32 west to Canyon lake. take either 3842
or 484 south to 306 at the lake. take 306 west to 281. there's a short
run north on 281 to get to 473. take 473 west to Comfort. run through the
metropolis of Comfort and pick up 27 to Center Point and pick up 480 (480
veers south just before Center Point). take 480 over to 173. Follow 173 
into Bandera. Out of bandera take 16 east to 46, 46 through Boerne to 
Canyon Lake. Go around Canyon Lake and pick up 32 again, back to Wimberley.


A Route Alternative:

   When you get to Center Point, stay on 27 and head on into Kerrville.
It's boring and straight, but it's not long and the reward is good. Go 
into Kerrville until you hit the 16 intersection. Head south on 16 all
the way to Bandera, one of the legendary roads of Texas. If you want a
medium sized extension, a little past where you turn onto 173 from 480,
take 2828 west to 16, and then take 16 south to Bandera.


In Conclusion:

   Please let me know if you plan to attend by the end of september either
via e-mail or message on my answering machine. I'll need a rough estimate
of the count to double check all the figures for camping, food, etc. Please
let me know even if you only plan on showing up for saturday's ride.

   The deadline for sending in your registration fee will be October 9
(it needs to be in my sweaty little hands by then). It's not that I don't 
trust anyone, it's just that, well, I don't trust anyone :-) Seriously though,
I'll save all checks until the 9th and then make the deposit. that will leave 
sufficient time to run to wimberly and reserve the appropriate amount of 
space, purchase food, determine prizes, etc, etc. Mail checks to:

        Joe Senner               <---- make payable to
        9605 Braes Valley St.
        Austin TX, 78729
        250-1149

   I will also need a valid e-mail address or phone number for confirmation.

REMEMBER:
   if you can't afford it, or don't want to, don't pay for it! it's more
important that you come along and ride. just remember that you're on your
own for meals & camping costs, and we aint given' you no prizes either! :-)

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Joe Senner                                                 joe@zx11.Cactus.Org
Austin, TX                                                       92 BMW K100RS