Ft Stockton to Georgetown

Thursday the 29th

It’s 0’dark thirty and Punky is ready to go out. I manage to open my eyes enough to pull on my jeans, put on a Tee shirt and grab the leashes. Once outside, we waltz across the parking lot where the girls do their thing while I freeze my butt off. Turns out the wind is blowing about thirty mph and the temperature is hovering around 40 degrees. I am drastically underdressed. Fortunately we made it back to the room before I lost an extremity to freezing.

By now Tina is up so we packed the truck and went over for another continental breakfast before putting the bikes on the truck and heading out. We have a short day, we’re driving to Gorton (20 miles north of Austin) to visit Bill and Violet. Bill is one of Tina’s cousins.

As we started out there was a huge black cloud on the horizon with several bands of rain clouds above it. As the sun came up behind the black cloud it lit up the undersides of the rain clouds turning them pink and eventually, the rain falling from the clouds along with the clouds themselves turned a vibrant pink. We never did se the sun rise but after passing underneath the rain clouds we looked behind us to see a brilliant double rainbow!!

We continued east on I-10 to the small town of Junction where we hooked up with US 377 heading north. Forty miles later, at Mason, we turned onto Texas 29 for the next 80 miles arriving at our destination about 2:00 PM. The sun was shining and it was about 65 degrees out - nice!

Bill and Violet greeted us warmly and showed to our room while the kids got to meet Zeke, a 12 year old miniature Schnauzer. It was so nice out we went out on the deck and chatted for an hour before coming in to look at photos of recent trips. Sometime later Vi prepared Texas Tacos and we tucked into a great meal.

After dinner we continued our visit while watching game two of the World Series. As always we had a great time with Bill and Vi.

Distance for today, 350 miles. Total for the trip so far, 2,507 miles.

No photos today.