Thursday March 12. 2015

We left the motel at 9:30, and the sun was out. It was a little chilly, we had our light jackets on and leggings. After a couple of hours, the jackets and leggings came of and we were cycling in sunny, warm weather. Finally the sun is out and maybe we should have put some sunscreen on.

It was another hilly ride, but not as hilly as yesterday. We arrived in Fredericskburg at about 2:30pm. There is a Tourist Information Centre, where we found out about hotels and campsites.

Fredericksburg is a very pretty tourist town. It is spring break, and a lot of the motels are booked and expensive.

We headed out of town by about a 2kms and found an Econo Lodge, the first price was more expensive than the Motel 8 downtown, so I said it was too expensive. She asked if we had any discounts, AAA or military. I told her Ralf was ex-military, but Canadian service. We got a military discount! Which made it cheaper than the Motel 8. Bonus

We got settled in, by the time we had got ourselves organized it was too late to go back downtown for a wander around. We did go over to a big supermarket called HEB. It had the most amazing cheese selection we have seen in ages. We stood their drooling, we really miss cheese, it is difficult to carry, we have to eat it all in one go.

We have a warmshowers tomorrow in Kerrville, they will be available after 3:00pm. It is not too far to ride, so we have decided to have a wander around downtown Fredericksburg tomorrow.

Things are looking up we haven’t had a dog chase us since before Austin, the weather is improving, and we are really enjoying Hill Country, Texas.