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Good for you, Mike. Having spent a few days with you I know well you're comfortable and perfectly happy living a minimalist lifestyle. That one night in south TX after we'd both had far too much to be able to drive, you said that we'd probably get a few hours sleep. I figured we'd be putting the seats back in the car. Nope. Next thing I knew you'd laid blanket down in the dirt next to the car and were fast asleep...

No idea what the fishing might be like along your trip but if it were me I'd have fishing licenses, small tackle box, a sturdy rod and a frying pan along. Probably an onion or two as well. Have fun and be safe. Look forward to your reports along the way.

I take the view that if I ever get hit, it’s ALWAYS gonna be my fault just for being around traffic on a bicycle.

Be safe and hold on to your wallet!

Be safe and hold on to your wallet!

Yep. Hope your packing a pistole too !!!

Ain’t figured out pictures yet, that’s gonna have to wait for WiFi.

Only 50 miles today, lost three hours of prime time waiting out the storm. Rolled into Sisterdale on the Guadalupe River with two hours of useful light remaining, 15 miles to Luckenbach, but the sky said thunderstorms building.in that direction.

So I stopped at the bar and tossed down O’Doull’s like they was soda pop, shooting the breeze in good company. Camped out under a bridge tonight, high up above the flood line. I know this is Texas and all, but I hope this friggin’ cattle drive weather cuts me some slack until I can get to dry country.

Planning on an early start tomorrow, stopping short like this, it’s 75 miles from here to Mason TX.

Only one prick driver today, guy in a pickup on the Sisterdale road, two lanes, no traffic, wants to see how close he can get his mirror to my left shoulder, me already riding the white line at the edge of the asphalt. Guys like that never stop after doing stuff like that.

in all fairness amigo you are the only person i've seen use a pintail duck for a pillow to sleep in the bow of the boat, while crossing a bay with 3ft breakers during a norther.

You've seen me dead asleep in a canoe while you and others were banging away at geese in a south shore swamp, dead asleep in the anchor hatch in 5 footers tuna fishing in Cape Cod bay, upside down in the back of your truck with your brother and JJ heading to the lease, on the floor next to Petey's cage in your pad, in a dugout sand hole face down on Padre Island, with my battery-powered fan buzzing away in the hole with me. In a blind using my Beretta as a pillow in Salty's condo blinds out on the Laguna Madre, striper fishing in November off Misery Island in 30F face down on a beanbag on a self-bailing boat with 4" of seawater sliding me and the beanbag across the deck, in a layout blind in a muddy field while crane hunting together in TX, on DVD's rig twisted up like a pretzel while king salmon fishing lake O...Not to mention the picnic table at that bar after we hustled those cats for the bar tab at 8 ball...But yeah, I remember that trip. So much for Texas hospitality. I had to find my own pillow to use. That was before we ran out of gas passing the cut at Port Aransas and were adrift, I think.

I wish I could sleep that easy. I have to clobber myself with an Ambien and have the bed made perfectly.

Come on out on one of our 3 day whirlwind cast/blast/everything else that's fun trips with us some time my man. I bet you'd be sleeping like a baby every night in places other than a perfectly made bed, without needing any Ambien.