Sunrise pic from today.
Today I rode through a couple pop-up thunderstorms. In my rear view mirror, I could see the first one approaching me rapidly by the rain hitting the road. It reminded me of the scene from "Jurassic Park" where they could see in their Jeep mirror the dinosaur behind them gaining on them. I didn't have my rain covers in my panniers so I quickly pulled off on an incline to put my rain covers on. I got them on just prior to the rain arriving. As I pushed my bike to get started again, I blew out my sandal. I'm determined to finishing this trip with them before permanently retiring them. So now I'm trying to limp home with a broken shoe and broken tooth crown :)
Pic below is Nam from Vietnam. He has been in Boston awhile and is returning to Vietnam in 2 months. He decided to see the US by bike so he is riding BR 76 and Western Express routes from Yorktown VA to San Francisco CA.
When I made it to the city park in Houston, it looked like a tent city (pics below).
There were 7 other touring cyclists already there to spend the night. They all are headed west and are biking from Virginia to Oregon.
Below is a pic of Jay, Michael, Dan, and Carl. Jay put a "companions wanted" listing on the Adventure Cycling website for a cross country ride and the other 3 signed up to join him.
The other 3, Rodney, Owen, and Gerrie, (pic below) connected with each other on their individual cross country trips and have been camping together several nights. Gerrie is from the Netherlands, Rodney Indiana, and Owen North Carolina.
Total miles today: 114.6
Duck tape for the Sandal…Can’t believe…You put duck tape on a tire and are ill prepared to fix a tooth and a sandal…Stay safe…
ReplyDeleteThis is one repair I don't even think duck tape would fix
DeleteGood old duct tape! What will Anthony do next? Surgery?
ReplyDeleteNeedle and thread next trip :)
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