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Red River Derby By John Harvey, Tourmeister, Carey Spreen, Rallymeister Come join us on Saturday, May 14, for the Red River Derby Tour and Rally! This will be a fun afternoon tour from McKinney to Rancho Sereno, north of Whitesboro near the Red River. As a bonus for the competitive, you can enter the Gimmick Rally, which will be held in parallel with the tour, although it will use a different route. The tour will begin at the Westgate Shopping Center, US 75 (Central Expressway) exit 40A, on the northbound service road. We will meet at noon, and the first Rally car out will be at 12:30pm, with the Tour group leaving after the Rally entrants have started out. From there we will wind our way through Texas horse country over some excellent “blue roads,” ending up a couple of hours later at Rancho Sereno, run by former Maverick Region members Mike and Lisa Maberry. And if you have been reading or hearing about Road Rallying, this is your chance to experience it for yourself - optional of course! It will be an easy one; think of it as an Introduction to Rallying. If you elect to enter the Rally, you will need to bring a clipboard, a pencil or two, and make sure that there are at least two people in your vehicle. You will get a route sheet that tells you your route, and, to make sure you followed that route, you will answer questions related to landmarks along the way. This is not a TSD (timespeed-distance) Rally, so you will not need a stopwatch, just a working odometer. The car (driver/navigator) that answers the most questions correctly, and gets closest to the official route mileage, will be the winner. A bail-out map will be included, but if you use it, you will not be scored. Rancho Sereno (www.ranchosereno.com), our destination, is a 165-acre private ranch with two personalities - it is a reigning horse breeding operation as well as a Bed and Breakfast, with a 115-acre wildlife preserve thrown in for good measure. Our hosts at Rancho Sereno plan to give us a tour of their operation (including baby horses, of course) and then feed us afterwards, with a wine tasting to boot! To offset the cost of the barbecue, we will be charging a nominal per person fee of $15. We will shortly announce an Evite web page, where you will be able to RSVP and pay in advance. Please note that we need an RSVP from you to get an accurate head count for the meal. Drive-ups may not be able to partake in the barbecue! We expect to be finished by 7:00 PM, and the trip back to the Metroplex will take a little over an hour on main highways, although you can go back any way you like! 10
Hilltop Sunday Drive By Ralph Kauffman The first Sunday drive of the <strong>2011</strong> Cleburne was very scenic and interesting with many farms season proved be a “baptism by and horses of all colors. One had a sign that said “Deer fire” or maybe “baptism by GPS” Ranch” although none of the antlered creatures were visible for new Tourmeister John Harvey and his to us. For those who remember the 2009 Granbury Roundup associate, BJ. More on that later. Thirty rally, there were many cemetEries along the route. cars and 57 Mavericks turned out at the John and BJ thoughtfully included one rest stop that we Duncanville Whataburger on Highway 67 made at a Tigermart on the south side of Cleburne. We filled on a perfect day for a drive in the country. and overflowed both the parking lot and the waiting line The weather was bright and sunny and warm enough for most space for the restrooms. to fold their soft tops. The line-up of cars in the Whataburger parking lot was After depleting almost concourslike. A wide lines and the waiting variety of models enjoying Porsche were represented camaraderie we including a 1973 were off once 914, a 928S, more heading and at least northwest on one 911GT3 in route 171 toward addition to an the heavenly A great time by all who showed up for an afternoon fun and friends! assortment of community of other 911s, Boxsters, and Caymans. Godley. At Godley we turned east on route 917, and blasted down the road toward Joshua. After several miles our caravan We caravaned south on Route 67 for about 20 miles, came to a stop. Soon John and BJ’s Seal Gray Boxster came following John and BJ and with Jack DuFon in the “sweep” back toward us signaling everyone to turn around. We did car at the back. At route 157 we turned east, stopping almost not know it at the time but it later turned out that John’s immediately at the Venus town square for a top-lowering GPS apparently did not stay long enough in Godley and had opportunity. We parked under the watchful eye of the Venus become devil-possessed. The turning-around exercise for 30 Police Department who very nicely blocked traffic so we cars on a narrow country could all get underway in one group. While stopped there road reminded me of the a young boy inquired if this was a funeral procession. He old Willis Brothers truck was assured that it was not, and anyway we were sans driving song, “Give Me hearse. From Venus we proceeded southeast to Maypearl. Forty Acres” (and I’ll Approaching a stop sign there, sirens wailed in the vicinity. turn this rig around). Fortunately they proved to be coming from a fire engine and Anyway, all followed not a police cruiser. the leader and went back From Maypearl the fun began when we proceeded out of town for a few miles and turned right on a byway named Brindley Road. At first it seemed like it was part of the route although a marker for route 916 was nowhere in sight. After about a mile the pavement thinned out and became gravel. At that point we started to have doubts as to the routepicking skills of our fearless leader. Fortunately the gravel section was extremely short and soon we had better pavement. After a few more miles we arrived at an intersection, turned left, and found we were then on route 916. John said later that he flat missed the turn at Maypearl and GPSed us back to the correct route. All new Tourmeisters are entitled to a mulligan or two. The countryside from Maypearl to Parker and up to Photos by Brendan Eagan Long time Maverick member, Jerry Sutton, enjoys talking to one of the yung guns. John Harvey making sure everyone is ready to roll... to Godley where we turned north on route 171 briefly and then north on route 2331. After several miles at the top of a big hill we turned right on appropriately named Sky Road where, after everyone had turned, we stopped again. <strong>April</strong> 11
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