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Gotcha.
If your gonna be headed up towards Abilene give me a heads up and I’ll deliver you up some beer of your choice or Gatorade and water and food to your campsite.

And you don't Fugg with da Rog 🤠

Long day today, and lessons learned.

First lesson was this morning, discovering the nylon pouch holding the LC9 and two nine round mags has been damp since there rain on Monday. OK I’ll fess up and, I ain’t been walking around in condition read on this trip. The handgun has been in a pouch in a pannier . Being heavy the handgun naturally gravitate to the bottom some water must have got in. Apparently Rugers ain’t like Glocks, the slide got pitted with rust, embarrassing. All the innards are still good And chain lube came in handy to oil down the outside.

Nother great breakfast at the cafe in Mason, great 30 mile ride to Brady TX across the San Saba. Stopped in a McDonalds to wait out a passing line of cells, wasn’t hungry had a small shake. Headed west for another 30 miles to Eden.

Whole different story; narrow road, fast heavy traffic, previous tailwind now a crosswind. Worse, the shoulder was rough chipseal, my bike soaks up vibration by design but chipseal slows you down, I swear some miles are longer than others. Four hours later I roll into Eden just thrashed, ready to fall off the bike.

Stagger into the little grocery store to buy the usual half gallon of milk, on impulse I grab a half gallon of buttermilk too. Chugalug the whole half gallon of buttermilk outside the store. Then immediately do the same to the milk.

Golly, suddenly I can ride again, another eight miles to a recommended rest area where I’m down for the night.

Tomorrow’s gonna be a challenge; 37 miles to San Angelo, even worse chipseal, no stores or restaurants en route.

Willow Creek Cafe.

Forgot to mention...

68 miles today, 188 total.

$30 spent.

Long day today, and lessons learned.

First lesson was this morning, discovering the nylon pouch holding the LC9 and two nine round mags has been damp since there rain on Monday. OK I’ll fess up and, I ain’t been walking around in condition read on this trip. The handgun has been in a pouch in a pannier . Being heavy the handgun naturally gravitate to the bottom some water must have got in. Apparently Rugers ain’t like Glocks, the slide got pitted with rust, embarrassing. All the innards are still good And chain lube came in handy to oil down the outside.

Hey, thanks for all the info.

Bicycle trip math.

Got a decision to make. Hang a left into NM to the Ruidoso area and then north through Yellowstone to Great Falls MT - 1,800 miles from here.

Straight north through Bents Fort, Fort Laramie, Yellowstone, Geat Falls - 1,500 miles.

Be good if I could be done by August 10th, 43 days from now.

43 days x 50 miles/day average = 2,150 potential miles able to cover.

Decisions, decisions.

Either way I’m on Hwy 87 170 miles to Lamesa.

Do you know what 87 looks like?

Short 35 mile day today, checked into a motel early afternoon. I know there’s a lot of history here in San Angelo but the decisive factor was proximity to a WalMart .

I need to regroup and repack

I gotta increase my water hauling capacity, bottles or camelback I dunno and I’m thinking I need a new iPhone case, my photos keep coming out fuzzy.

Five days 215 miles, not great but not bad. I can pull it out this weekend to make a 300 mile week.

HWY 87 is a two lane all the way to Lamesa, Mike.
Lots of hills & curves. I like that country. Pretty good ways between towns though. Lots of storms pass through that way headed my way. Lots of hail storms and not many places to stop for cover if you get caught out in it.