March 9, 2018
Day 20
How We Learn to Love the Wind
Tim has been following Rob & Gary's blog, the guys we met last weekend. Based on their last posting on road conditions and motel reviews , think roach Motel, he made some route changes for today and tomorrow. Today we left the BW Motel here in Clint, Texas and road 45.5 miles South East on interstate #10. This took us to Esperanza and a truck stop. Its pretty desolate in this part of Texas and clean motels can be hard to find, so with that in mind we took the SAG vehicle and drove back to the motel we stayed in last night. Tomorrow we'll drive back to our ending point and bike forward. We've secured lodging in a motel and in a campground for the next two nights. Riding interstate highways can be a little intimidating as I've mentioned before esp. with speed limits of 80mph, none of us could get our bikes moving that quickly :) . We found drivers, and esp. truck drivers to be very considerate and move over to the left lane when they could. A very favorable wind from the north-west helped us cruise along today. Tim did suffer a chain come off and bent derailed but he was able to fix it quickly.
Hot desert country side gave rise to "dust devils" small sand twisters.We did see a number of them off in the distance and I tried to capture some in pictures. A satisfying ride today.
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Today's ride: 46 miles (74 km)
Total: 801 miles (1,289 km)
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