Our ride today started out with a 16 mile romp through Bastrop State park....a lovely wooded area with a smooth road that went up and down and wound around. It did include three steep but relatively short up hills which taxed the best of us, but there was little traffic. Great fun to ride.
The weather when we started out was threatening rain and there were thunder storms off to the west. It was warm and quite humid. As we rode through the park we could feel the temperature dropping and the wind coming up. We had a few sprinkles as well, so I broke out my rain jacket for the first time. As it turned out we never got rained on but the strong gusty winds remained for the rest of the ride. We had a 2 or 3 mile stretch where the cross winds were so intense that it was hard to keep our bicycles on the road. We then turned a bit toward the south and had the winds more or less behind us for the rest of the ride. A blessing because it was really blowing! The changing conditions actually ended up adding interest to the day's ride....something I probably wouldn't be saying if it had been a head wind!
Tomorrow we ride to Navasota where we will have a rest day. Only two more days of riding in Texas after that.
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