Southern Tier

Today I was surprised that we had cold temperatures, after I assumed we would be warm or even too hot for the remainder of the tour. We started out in Austin in the mid 40’s and ended at 56 degrees in La Grange, with a “feels like” temperature of 43 degrees due to overcast and […]

Today we road to Austin, while surviving two significant hazards. The first being an unfortunate fall by Doug, and next the most congested 2 miles of, not-for-bicycles, highway 290 East in a suburb town 10 miles west of Austin. Other than that, it was a pleasurable, scenic Hill Country ride with more significant rollers. Once

Today we had more Hill Country scenery, and a long lunch stop in Fredericksburg. This town is a destination for vacationers and is know for it’s German heritage, as seen by the many German restaurants. We did take a great lunch break at one and enjoyed some traditional German food, and one of us even

This was a great day of riding and scenery, despite considerable hills all day, including inclines of up top 12%. Only the last few miles into Kerrville were commercial urban highways, but the majority of the ride was ranch roads, scenic hill top vistas, and beautiful riverfront homes following a very nice small town called

After a rest day in Del Rio, I definitely started the ride feeling refreshed, but the beginning part of busy stretch of Hwy 90 seemed to wear me down a bit. I commented to Doug and Steve that this 32 mile stretch to Brackettville lacked any scenery. Previous stretches of 90 were nice, but not

Trying to make this a real rest day after getting laundry done the first night. I was lucky to get a head tube spacer I need at a small bike store, and the owner even installed it and was then able to properly tighten my headset. I don’t know how I ended up without enough

This was the big ride we have been facing with trepidation, but we all road well and even finished our120 miles ahead of our schedule. Thankfully we enjoyed a day on highway 90 with an overall significant elevation drop. Unlike the previous rides, the landscape changed to shorter rollers (up and down hill climbs). Up

This was another easy day, with just 54 miles of riding, so we left at 11:00 AM to avoid arriving in Sanderson before check-in at the Desert Air Motel. Again, clean road surfaces and views of scenic hills. Once we arrived in Sanderson, we ran into a group of eight people also staying at our

We considered this a casual ride with a relatively shorter mileage of 54. Today was an extremely pleasant ride as we continued easterly on Hwy 118, This highway is very scenic and know has the highest paved highway in Texas that leads 6791 feet to the McDonald Observatory in the opposite direction we headed. The