Thursday, October 23, 2014

Day 36 - Bastrop State Park to Carmine

Today is a long mile day with over 60 miles estimated.

The day started with a pretty ride through Bastrop and Buescher State Parks. The road wen up and down a lot with some exceptionally steep, but thankfully short climbs. It was a pretty ride with multiple deer sightings along the way. Many pine trees. Also a lot of the area had burned in a forest fire fairly recently so there were lots of areas where all the trees were dead.


Here Jim Vincent is passing by me in the morning ride through the park.


After this we progressed on several farm roads, again of variable quality. It seems like the variety of ways a road is constructed in Texas is never ending. Some good, some not so good.

After getting to La Grange the road was exceptionally busy with lots of truck traffic. It also  had zero shoulder and one of those painted on rumble strips which forced us to ride further out in the traffic that would have normally been necessary. Be cautious on this stretch of road.

On the way out of La Grange I spotted this Texas Road Kill cleanup crew taking a siesta after a hard mornings work.


Later in the day we went through an area with a lot of Antique shops and places for vendors to sell their wares. It is apparently only open at certain times. There was nothing open when we rode through. This collection of pottery was pretty impressive.


I had to get my picture with this metal long horn sculpture.


We eventually reached Carmine and camped in the Dixieland RV park. It was pretty nice but it was a long walk to the showers and bathroom. Which made for a rather lengthy middle of the night trek.

There was a very nice store in town and I made a trip down there to procure beer for the group.



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