{"id":985,"date":"2007-03-21T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=985"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:38:35","slug":"hill-country-ride-with-andre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Hill Country Ride with Andre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first met Andre in person in 2002 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">East Coast Roundup<\/a>, we&#8217;d been online ACE 750 forum buddies since 2000. We&#8217;d be at several get-togethers over the years. Andre lived in Maryland at that time, but since moved to the Austin area, we decided to meet up for a ride through the hill country. Like me, he had also moved up from the ACE to a sport tourer, we had a blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00181.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"989\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00181.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00181.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00181-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00181-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00185.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"992\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00185.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00185.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00185-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00185-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00189.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"993\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00189.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00189.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00189-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00189-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00182.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"990\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00182.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00182.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00182-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00182-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00178.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"987\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00178.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00178.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00178-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC00178-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dsc00176.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"986\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dsc00176.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dsc00176.jpg 800w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dsc00176-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dsc00176-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Andre in person in 2002 at the East Coast Roundup, we&#8217;d been online ACE 750 forum buddies since 2000. We&#8217;d be at several get-togethers over the years. Andre lived in Maryland at that time, but since moved to the Austin area, we decided to meet up for a ride through the hill country. Like me, he had&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}