More Roll'in

Statue at Fort Davis

Mike with one of his road kills

March 27 - Langtry to Del Rio - 51 miles total. Russ and I backtracked to Langtry which was about 20 miles outside our campground. Then Dawn took over biking and I drove into Del Rio. The wind had died down and it was an enjoyable ride. The biggest blunder for the day was that Russ overshot the campground by about 10 miles and didn't know where we were camping. He forgot to take his cell phone with him but Sue saved the day and rode down the way into town to find him. All finally ended well.

March 28 - Del Rio to Bracketville (Fort Clark Park) Since it was a rather short ride day, I drove the motor home the 44 miles to Bracketville. Fort Clark is an old fort that was privatized around 1950. The fort is on the historical register and most of the old buildings are now privately owned. About 1700 folks live there full time now and it is a community within itself. It was interesting wondering around the old buildings. Patton was there in 1946-1947 and we saw the house where he lived. They filmed the Alamo here with John Wayne. (Speaking of which, I am sitting outside the real Alamo now blogging because I toured the Alamo a few years back when I was in San Antonio)

March 29 - Bracketville to Camp Wood - 47 miles. What a great day of biking. Back roads with little traffic. The only excitment for the day was being chased by a sheep dog. He outran my bike and charged toward me. Luckily I survived without much incident. (The next day I bought dog spray) Also, I have never seen so much road kill. Deer mainly. Everywhere you looked in the sky you saw buzzards flying. The guys stopped to retreive atlers along the way. Our campground was along the river and we all jumped in it when we arrived. Refreshing after a long day.

March 30 - Camp Wood to Kerrville - 94 miles. The guys got messed up with our camping reservations so we had to get to Kerrville in one day. We are now in the hill country and that is no exageration. Neither Dawn nor I got to bike today because she had to get to Kerrville to the bike shop to fix a broken spoke on their tandem. I got stuck driving the motor home over the switchback hills which wasn't fun at all.