Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Tomorrow I get to Louisiana.  It has been a long time coming.  In Texas they fly a lot of flags.  Lots of state flags.  Sometimes with the US flag.  And then where I have been it is a fight between Texas A&M and Texas flags.  One place had four flags -the extra one being the Marine Corps flag.  About 10 miles east of Austin I came upon a place that was flying Buddist flags - some Austin Buddist center out in the middle of farm country.  Really quiet - probably a good place for it.  I'm curious to see what I will find in Louisiana.  Today, most of the day I saw small mudd piles in the shape of castle turrets.  I found out that it is where the crawdads have made a home.  Maybe I will get to eat some in the next week.

The ride was interesting today.  For the first 1 1/2 hours I was in fog.  Kind of dangerous.  The cars couldn't see me as well as usual and my glasses and mirror continually fogged up.  So, I changed senses and spend my morning listening really well to discover when vehicles were passing.  The cars and trucks were really good.  They could see me more than I thought, since they seemed to give me a lot more space than normal.  Another different thing about today was a 10 mile stretch that was totally flat and totally straight.  I have been so used to hills and curves and not being able to see what was coming up - kind of a surprise around every corner.  This was really different.  At least there were tree's lining both sides of the road.  Tonight I found a Chinese buffet and stuffed myself.  It was sublime. 68 miles today.  Staying in Silsbee, Texas.  Getting ready for rain.  Feeling good.  Til later.