Friday March 6, 2015

I felt much better when I woke up this morning. The sun was out although very cold. Ralf wasn’t feeling very well today. Maybe it is something we ate.

The ride today was lovely, the first 30 kms were along Hwy 105, a big wide shoulder and not too much traffic.

We are in cattle country, lots of good rolling hills. We spotted this \”small\” BBQ for sale, it can be yours for $350,000.00. It came with one ton of BBQ sauce!

We drove through Brenham and connected with Hwy 290, this road had a wide shoulder as well, but the traffic was much heavier.

We made our left turn into Burton, which has a museum with the oldest working cotton gin in Texas.

We called our warmshowers host, who was in Burton at the time, she gave us directions to her house and we carried on for another 12 kms to her lovely homestead. We are staying above the barn, it reminds me very much of peddlars rest in New Zealand.

Carol is a lovely lady and hosts hundreds of cyclists. The accommodation is above her implement shed, it has 5 single beds and one queen bed. There is a small kitchen and a wood fireplace. The bathroom has an old claw foot tub in it with an old fashioned shower head. Carol cooks dinner and she provides us with food to cook our own breakfast.

We helped pick up some dead wood for her.

Ralf had a nap before dinner, he says he aches all over and is tired, I think we both had a bug.