Bicycling elevation gain was 5587 feet through the Texas hill country.
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Day 22
We rode 81 challenging miles to Ingram, TX. I rode an additional 4 miles exploring Leakey, TX after my patronage of the Leakey mercantile. These small towns we went through, along with the brush landscape gave me the thought of western movie backdrops. We found ourselves in the hills of Texas, the training ground of …
Day 21
Del Rio to Camp Wood, TX. We left after 1230 because we were trying to let the wind die down after wind advisory. We were running out of daylight so we left in the wind and Rode 79 miles through heavy wind until 40 minutes after sundown, and did bicycle 1942 feet of elevation gain. …
Day 19
Comstock to Del Rio was 32 miles, but took most of a day to navigate the strong winds and the narrow or rough shoulders; when we arrived in Del Rio at 2:30 we got a hotel to unwind and resort our provisions and equipment; we decided to take Day 20 as a rest day. Danny …
Day 18
Rode from Sanderson to Comstock This journey was shortened to 90 miles due to wind that required pedaling downhill and a bicycling 3889 feet of elevation gain. The weather was hot and sunny too. My cousin Duffy remained in good spirits despite his bike trailer being blown by the wind too. The remarkable thing about …
Day 17
We rode from Fort Davis to Alpine to Marathon and on to Sanderson, TX. The total miles of 111, and 2041 feet of bicycling elevation gain were achieved by riding an hour after sundown. We both have headlights and taillights. Route 90 from Alpine to Sanderson was rarely used from afternoon to evening. The front …
Day 16
Day 16 from Plateau to Fort Davis We ended our journey at Fort Davis because of the steep elevation climbs; we were exhausted when we rolled into town. I will have more thoughts on this later. We rode 71 miles and 4283 feet in bicycle elevation climb. Today, we struggled with carrying enough water. We …
Day 15
Day 15 Fort Hancock to Plateau We rode 96 miles with 2881 feet in bicycle elevation gain. Today we ran into a lot of wind too. This is the day my front tire punctured while riding about 15 mph; I have run flat tires, as I had these installed at cyclemania before flying to San …
Day 14
Day 14 Las Cruces to Fort Hancock This day we rode 103 miles through headwinds and rain and did 1288 feet of bicycling elevation gain. We crossed into Texas. We stopped at the Trek store so that my cousin could get his new rim, and I got new gloves hoping that they would help with …
Day 13
Day 13 from Baywood Springs to Las Cruces We rode 92 miles and had bicycling elevation gain of 596 feet. Travel was relatively flat with rain off and on. We arrived in las cruces as the sun was setting and decided to stay at Spring Hill Suites. Matthew, who was just getting off work offered …
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