'bout that shack outside La Grange
And you know what I'm talkin' about.
Just let me know if you wanna go
To that home out on the range. They gotta lotta nice girls ah.
-- ZZ Top "La Grange"
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfr
Today we rode from Lockhart to LaGrange, Texas. Nothing remarkable about the ride today really except that it was pretty humid and we were dripping sweat all day. I have gotten used to sweating on this trip, but when we were in dryer climate, it would dry on my skin. Now, it just stays wet all the time. My fingers get all pruney and I'm not even in water!!! We rode highway 20 out of Lockhart then got on highway 71 at Bastrop. Highway 71 was pretty heavily traveled but had a nice wide, smooth shoulder most of the way. Until about the last 7 miles; just before Plum, our lovely shoulder turned into one of the roughest chip-seal surfaces yet. THAT will wear you out quickly. But, we survived and rolled into LaGrange around 3:30 p.m. without incident.
Tonight we are camped out at the Colorado Landing RV Park. There is a Colorado River here in Texas, but it's not "the" Colorado River. The RV Park is very nice with a little community center that has a kitchen, living room, TV, internet, showers -- everything you need. We are watching the Giants/Cardinals game as I write (GO, GIANTS!!!!). Our tent is set up about 50 feet from this Colorado River and our nearest "neighbor" is "Charlotte" -- a big, fat probably- egg-bearing spider who is spinning a web from a tree limb down to the ground. I need to be sure I don't walk through her path when I go searching for the bathroom in the middle of the night!!!!
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfr
Today we rode from Lockhart to LaGrange, Texas. Nothing remarkable about the ride today really except that it was pretty humid and we were dripping sweat all day. I have gotten used to sweating on this trip, but when we were in dryer climate, it would dry on my skin. Now, it just stays wet all the time. My fingers get all pruney and I'm not even in water!!! We rode highway 20 out of Lockhart then got on highway 71 at Bastrop. Highway 71 was pretty heavily traveled but had a nice wide, smooth shoulder most of the way. Until about the last 7 miles; just before Plum, our lovely shoulder turned into one of the roughest chip-seal surfaces yet. THAT will wear you out quickly. But, we survived and rolled into LaGrange around 3:30 p.m. without incident.
Tonight we are camped out at the Colorado Landing RV Park. There is a Colorado River here in Texas, but it's not "the" Colorado River. The RV Park is very nice with a little community center that has a kitchen, living room, TV, internet, showers -- everything you need. We are watching the Giants/Cardinals game as I write (GO, GIANTS!!!!). Our tent is set up about 50 feet from this Colorado River and our nearest "neighbor" is "Charlotte" -- a big, fat probably- egg-bearing spider who is spinning a web from a tree limb down to the ground. I need to be sure I don't walk through her path when I go searching for the bathroom in the middle of the night!!!!
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