Today was a bit of a recovery day after yesterday’s 87 miles. Today’s ride was an easy, mostly flat 40 miles with only a few hills getting out of Austin. My legs felt tired when we started, but felt better as we rode. We did stop at an over priced donut spot on the way out of Austin, the saving grace was the coffee!
Along the route we had lots of options got food and water, a change from the last few weeks. One gas station grocery store also had a Mexican bakery, breakfast for tomorrow was acquired.
We talked about how far to go today and also looked at the weather. Rain and strong winds were predicted so we opted not to camp (packing wet tents is a pain). That put us in Bastrop at 40 miles (or La Grange at 70 which was more then we felt like). Once in Bastrop we found the hotels EXPENSIVE! We found a very nice “cabin” at Basin RV Park for a more reasonable price.
We dropped our gear at the cabin and headed to Historic downtown Bastrop, about a 1.5 mile walk. They have a nice healthy downtown with lots of nice shops. I also found a barber and had my first haircut of the trip, well past due!
I got back to the cabin and did some bike maintenance. I was going to swap my tires front to bake to even out wear but upon inspection they are wearing about the same so I cleaned things up and skipped rotating tires.
Dinner was a local Italian restaurant that was good and had great homemade bread knots. Carb-loading never tasted so good.
Late night and early morning rain and wind is expected, followed by 10-20 mph winds out of the west. We hope to catch those winds and make some distance tomorrow.
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