Michele cooked us a great breakfast of eggs and soy chorizo, plus rich coffee, of course. Mark drove us in his pickup again to the southern end of San Antonio. We weren’t going to ask, but since we had mentioned that we had planned to go to Jourdanton the previous day, he was nice enough [...]
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Based on knowing that San Antonio is a very large and congested city, plus the recommendation of our friend Tom, we mapped out a route that took out around the city in a large loop on the western side. Unfortunately, this involved some more pretty tough terrain in Texas Hill Country. After only about 20-plus [...]
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The first part of our route out of Austin today took us into real Texas Hill Country, and they aren’t kidding when they say hills. We took Lost Creek Blvd. and Barton Creek Rd. through some very ritzy housing developments, up and down several very steep hills. This finally led us to the Oak Hill [...]
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We were enjoying the rest in Austin so much that we decided to take one more day off here to relax and decompress some more, as well as catch up on a few more errands. Mainly, I had to find a box to ship the Xtracycle back home in, so we found a UPS store [...]
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We took a rest day to get some errands done. The main thing I did was to remove the Xtracycle attachment from my bike. I really enjoyed using the Xtracycle for it easy cargo-carrying ability and stable handling, but had decided that the extra weight (especially in the hilly areas) was not worth it. As [...]
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The selections at the Days Inn breakfast buffet were a little weak for the needs of touring cyclists, so we stopped back in at the Kettle for breakfast. As we left the hotel room, Ray noticed another flat tire, so he took care of that before we got rolling. He got another one just a [...]
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As we left the campground at Lake Livingston State Park, instead of heading directly back into town the same way we came yesterday, we took a gamble, and followed some back roads that appeared to lead back to the main highway on the western side of town. This turned out to be a good choice, [...]
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The forecasts were calling for a more high winds and heavy rains in the afternoon and evening yesterday, as the trailing edge of Hurricane Ike passed through the area. This never really materialized, though, and the rest of the day just had light rain and very little wind. This morning, we fueled up at the [...]
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The first severe part of the storm hit town during the early morning hours today. Ray and I slept through most of it, although for a while we did hear a piece of partially-detached aluminum siding banging against the side of the building. The power went off briefly a few times, but surprisingly, it’s been [...]
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We couldn’t stand sitting on our hands for another day without progressing further west, so we made the quick 50+ mile ride to Jaspter, TX this morning assisted by a tailwind, powered I’m sure by the pre-effects of Hurricane Ike. The last we heard before leaving De Ridder, LA, the Texas counties south of here [...]
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