Tuesday March 17, 2015

A lovely quiet sleep in our Cavalry barrack room, no ghosts! I checked the weather forecast, it was going to be a wet but warm ride.

Just as we were ready to leave it started to shower, oh well, tomorrow is a rest day and the bikes are scheduled for a cleaning anyway.

The downtown of Brackettville is very run-down with some lovely buildings that are abandoned and ruins.

However, the court house was still a very impressive building.

We headed out in overcast skies, and drizzle. It continued to rain for about an hour and then stopped. We had a great tail-wind and covered 40 ks in less than 2 hours. No struggling today.

We are back on a highway with a wide shoulder, no listening to birdsong around us just the steady thrum of tires on tarmac. Everyone is giving us plenty of room and we have a wide shoulder so we feel safe.

We arrived at the outskirts of Del Rio before noon and headed up towards our motel. We knew it was near a big Wal-Mart and we had decided to pop into the Wal-Mart and pick up some lunch then head to the motel, which was 2kms past Wal-Mart.

I have a long list on my To Do list – although tomorrow is going to be a rest day I will be busy doing washing, cleaning bikes and preparing for the next section of the Southern Tier – we are on the next map – Map 3 of 7 or Map 4 for us as we are going east to west. It seems amazing that we have already cycled over 2,500 kms in six weeks.

We have a great kitchenette room in the motel with a full working stove. Tonight we had pork chops, potatoes and veges – lovely. It so nice to be able to put a good meal together instead of working on a little camp stove. Tomorrow we plan on having salmon! Pure luxury!