The Forbidden Ride of 2008

This is a video of our first ride this year. I was really excited to pull together a route and a group of folks to go visit the Forbidden Gardens in Katy TX (http://forbidden-gardens.com/). Surprisingly the weather worked out in our favor. We got a bit wet from the roads at the start of the ride, but just as soon as we were out of the Stafford/Sugarland area, the roads were nice and dry.

This is the first statue you see as you are entering the parking area of the Forbidden Gardens.

There are two of these statues guarding the entrance to the statue garden.

The size of these statues is breath-taking. I'm not sure I expected them to be so big.

The attention to detail is phenomenal.

This was a fantastic place to visit to start out the New Year. The route to and from the Forbidden-Gardens is as follows:

I'd suggest cutting off the leg south of 59 as it seemed to suck with stop sign after stop sign.