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Monday April 14, 2008, 131 miles (211 km) - Total so far: 1,855 miles (2,985 km)
How many of you really thought I'd eat at an all you can eat catfish buffett?? Gross, sorry. I just thought it would be a funny opener. I did see one though.
Today was a huge day, compared to previous days anyway; 131 miles and tons of rolling hills. Here's a great math problem for all the 6th graders reading this... And everyone who answeres it correctly gets 5 bonus points. 15 if your teacher normally weights things heavily: here goes... So in the past 2 days I've done 7000 feet of climbing over 204 miles. I was never above 500ft and never below 300ft. Assuming the average hill was the difference between the high and lowpoint, how many hills did I have to climb?
Speaking of highs and lows, today was full of them so I.will put together a nice little list here:
Highlights;
-Tons of beautiful wildflowers everywhere. Took lots of pictures.
-one of the nicest rolling countryside roads I'd ever rode on. There were cows, bright green grass, wildflowers everywhere. A great place to film a milk commercial or something like that.
-Stopping to snack and having a gackle of horses come to the fence to investigate me; I pet them and got some close up pics.
-getting a majority of the climbing done for the trip today.. It's mostly flat from here out, except a few unworthy bumps here and there.
-getting a history lesson from an attorney while standing in line at subway in Navasota, TX.
-getting lots of work stuff accomplished from my two-wheeled office. If only the people I talk to on the phone about business knew what it looked like where I was talking to them.. Pretty funny.
-meeting rick, who I heard about through tom, gerry and martin. He was on the southern tier until today; now he's cutting north to ride home to Vermont.
-saving myself from a bonk episode with my subway, bananna, and energy gels.
-having a really good burger in Richards, TX.only place in town! Try it!
-Riding through the start of Bayou country and through tons of pine forests on smooth as silk road.
-meeting annee and chris, a travelling duo taking a leisurely 3 month pace to go east to west. We swapped notes and stories and had a good time on the side of the road. To see their trip, go here: http://www.anneeacrossamerica.com
-feeling humidity and seeing it linger around the treetops. It's nice to have some moisture after being In the desert so long.
-after riding in the dark for 35 minutes, I arrived at the hotel here in Coldspring, the San Jacinto Inn and having the owners wife offer to have her husband drive me into town to get dinner. Wow! I did NOT want to bike anymore so that was an unrefuseable offer. After I was done eating I called and he came and picked me up.He also hooked me up with some laundry detergent so I could wash my clothes in the bathtub. He told me all about the different cyclists who come through and how he likes to drive them into town so they don't have to ride back and forth. Nice! Anyone coming through here.. Highly recocmend the place, very bike friendly and only $40.
Lowpoints:
-almost bonking twice,
-riding in the dark for 35 minutes. 7 miles of which were gravelly with no shoulders.
-getting chased by 4 dogs in the last hour or so.
that's it for the lowpoints..
Yesterday Paul and I were comparing notes on vertical gain for the whole trip and agreed it's about 65,000ft of climbing. To put that in perspective, it means we did the same vertical as 3 Denali climbs or 2 everest climbs from sea level.crazy.
Also wanted to thank all the folks posting in my journal guestbook. I WILL respond soon... It's tough taking care of stuff everynight and still have time to respond to messages!
Today was a huge day, compared to previous days anyway; 131 miles and tons of rolling hills. Here's a great math problem for all the 6th graders reading this... And everyone who answeres it correctly gets 5 bonus points. 15 if your teacher normally weights things heavily: here goes... So in the past 2 days I've done 7000 feet of climbing over 204 miles. I was never above 500ft and never below 300ft. Assuming the average hill was the difference between the high and lowpoint, how many hills did I have to climb?
Speaking of highs and lows, today was full of them so I.will put together a nice little list here:
Highlights;
-Tons of beautiful wildflowers everywhere. Took lots of pictures.
-one of the nicest rolling countryside roads I'd ever rode on. There were cows, bright green grass, wildflowers everywhere. A great place to film a milk commercial or something like that.
-Stopping to snack and having a gackle of horses come to the fence to investigate me; I pet them and got some close up pics.
-getting a majority of the climbing done for the trip today.. It's mostly flat from here out, except a few unworthy bumps here and there.
-getting a history lesson from an attorney while standing in line at subway in Navasota, TX.
-getting lots of work stuff accomplished from my two-wheeled office. If only the people I talk to on the phone about business knew what it looked like where I was talking to them.. Pretty funny.
-meeting rick, who I heard about through tom, gerry and martin. He was on the southern tier until today; now he's cutting north to ride home to Vermont.
-saving myself from a bonk episode with my subway, bananna, and energy gels.
-having a really good burger in Richards, TX.only place in town! Try it!
-Riding through the start of Bayou country and through tons of pine forests on smooth as silk road.
-meeting annee and chris, a travelling duo taking a leisurely 3 month pace to go east to west. We swapped notes and stories and had a good time on the side of the road. To see their trip, go here: http://www.anneeacrossamerica.com
-feeling humidity and seeing it linger around the treetops. It's nice to have some moisture after being In the desert so long.
-after riding in the dark for 35 minutes, I arrived at the hotel here in Coldspring, the San Jacinto Inn and having the owners wife offer to have her husband drive me into town to get dinner. Wow! I did NOT want to bike anymore so that was an unrefuseable offer. After I was done eating I called and he came and picked me up.He also hooked me up with some laundry detergent so I could wash my clothes in the bathtub. He told me all about the different cyclists who come through and how he likes to drive them into town so they don't have to ride back and forth. Nice! Anyone coming through here.. Highly recocmend the place, very bike friendly and only $40.
Lowpoints:
-almost bonking twice,
-riding in the dark for 35 minutes. 7 miles of which were gravelly with no shoulders.
-getting chased by 4 dogs in the last hour or so.
that's it for the lowpoints..
Yesterday Paul and I were comparing notes on vertical gain for the whole trip and agreed it's about 65,000ft of climbing. To put that in perspective, it means we did the same vertical as 3 Denali climbs or 2 everest climbs from sea level.crazy.
Also wanted to thank all the folks posting in my journal guestbook. I WILL respond soon... It's tough taking care of stuff everynight and still have time to respond to messages!
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