Sunday March 8, 2015
The forecast was for rain today, it had rained most of the night. Our warmshowers host for tonight in Austin is not available until after 12:00, which meant we could wait out the early morning rain and head out if it stopped.
As we prepared to leave we met another cyclist, coincidence – he is riding a Trek 520 the same as Ralf and he was a truck driver as well.
![\"2](\"http://winter-rides.ca/SweetCheeks/wp-content/uploads/2xTrek-520s.jpg\")
By 10:30 it had stopped raining and we headed out on wet roads with grey clouds hanging over us. We made our left turn onto Hwy 304 and it started to spit a little, not too bad the temperature wasn’t too cold. We spotted 3 large storage tanks with happy Blue Smiley faces on them and an older truck, it was raining a little heavier now, but the smiley faces made us smile. That is where we should have made our right turn towards Austin – we missed it.
We carried on cycling in the rain for another 19 kms. Ralf said he had to check the map and that is when we realized we had cycled 19 ks in the wrong direction. We turned around and headed straight back to Bastrop! 38.6 ks for nothing!
We paid for another night in the motel, this is killing our budget. However, there is washing facilities here and we desperately needed to get some clean clothes. We dried the bikes and cleaned the chains, although they are going to get wet and dirty again tomorrow – forecast for more rain.
I called the warmshowers host who graciously offered us a bed for tomorrow night and the next night. Hilary even offered to drive out and pick-us up, but we have paid for the room and I didn’t think we would get a refund.
The washing got done and Ralf went to do the shopping for our food for dinner.
We turned the clocks back last night and as usual it is messing with my sleep pattern. I really have no idea why we keep moving the clocks forward and backwards. It is now darker in the morning and lighter at night. The doesn’t help our early morning rides – not that we are having many of those right now as we are not leaving until after nine o’clock when it is a little warmer.