Cycling Coast to Coast

Welcome to Texas!

After the miserable heat yesterday, lots of people (myself included) were actually asking to wake up earlier, so we can get on the road earlier.  We are now waking up 2 hours before sunrise, and hitting the road at civil twilight (about 30 minutes before actual twilight).  This means that we were treated to a beautiful sunrise when on the road, and that we also had more time on the road before it got really hot.  Lunch was at mile 38 in the town of Sayre, and everyone was in and out of lunch before 10:30am.

We are also now hitting the part of the trip where the towns and roads we ride on are very sparsely populated.  The only town along our route was Sayre, where we had our lunch stop.  Also, usually our cue sheets are formated in a table, and there are lots of turns.  Today, however, the cue sheet was very simple:

“Go to the stoplight

Turn left and go right around the courthouse

Take a right on the other side of the courthouse

Go on 152 until you have gone 77.81 miles

Turn left onto S. Main Street, the First Baptist church is at 601 S. Main Street”

The Texas state line was around mile 62, and of course we all stopped to take pictures.  I was surprised that the state sign didn’t proclaim Texas as the “Lone Star State”, or any other slogan like you see on other state signs.  Instead, just below the “Welcome to Texas” sign, was a smaller sign that read “Proud Home of President George W. Bush”.  Oh, Texas.