Saturday, October 09, 2010
Navasota to LaGrange to Lockhart....about 130 miles
The last couple of days are kind of run together. Mostly up and down the hills, mostly bad food--unless you consider Subway for dinner good--but some decent motel rooms.
We stayed at the Oak Motel in LaGrange which was on the Adventure Cycling Maps and I figured it would be a dump with a capital Dee. Surprise, surprise it turn out to be a nice clean older motel with large rooms and a great price. The owners name is Mystery which Is carpenter in India or Pakistan. Ron and Mystery bonded and Mystery's wife made us fresh cupcakes--which made up for that other crap they call food in LaGrange.
The biggest change I've noticed on the trip since Bill and I rode here 10 years ago is there seem to be many more chip seal roads and believe me these roads are rough as a cob--big stone country. There are also more Wally Worlds and we have been right next door to one on two different nights. We were even in one that sold liquor.
We have had some bike problems. I broke a spoke-- I had a spare and tools to fix-- Jan had some shifting problems early on and Cal had another flat. He had to buy a new tire at Wally World in Lockhart. Considering the road conditions we've been lucky.
We are taking and off day in Lockhart. Everyone is a little worn down by the hills an two weeks on the road. Plus there are football games to watch on TV.
I've given up trying to find some healthy food to eat and decided to go native. Steak, eggs and grease. Want to be grossed out? Go into a buffet and watch people...it would be embarrassing to a Land Race-- that's a bred of pigs to you city slickers. Ron saw a guy the other night carrying two large plates of food and holding one up to his face to eat off on the way back to his table.
We stayed at the Oak Motel in LaGrange which was on the Adventure Cycling Maps and I figured it would be a dump with a capital Dee. Surprise, surprise it turn out to be a nice clean older motel with large rooms and a great price. The owners name is Mystery which Is carpenter in India or Pakistan. Ron and Mystery bonded and Mystery's wife made us fresh cupcakes--which made up for that other crap they call food in LaGrange.
The biggest change I've noticed on the trip since Bill and I rode here 10 years ago is there seem to be many more chip seal roads and believe me these roads are rough as a cob--big stone country. There are also more Wally Worlds and we have been right next door to one on two different nights. We were even in one that sold liquor.
We have had some bike problems. I broke a spoke-- I had a spare and tools to fix-- Jan had some shifting problems early on and Cal had another flat. He had to buy a new tire at Wally World in Lockhart. Considering the road conditions we've been lucky.
We are taking and off day in Lockhart. Everyone is a little worn down by the hills an two weeks on the road. Plus there are football games to watch on TV.
I've given up trying to find some healthy food to eat and decided to go native. Steak, eggs and grease. Want to be grossed out? Go into a buffet and watch people...it would be embarrassing to a Land Race-- that's a bred of pigs to you city slickers. Ron saw a guy the other night carrying two large plates of food and holding one up to his face to eat off on the way back to his table.
