Mileage - 33.9; Total Mileage - 105.6 miles
Our good luck with weather over the last three tours has come to an end. As we were winding down last night, thunder and lightening started in the distance. The radar wasn't really showing anything but we prepared for some rain by covering bags or moving into tents.
And then we had just a few bits of drizzle and it stopped. We thought we had missed the rain. Shortly after I crawled in the tent for bed, a small storm of wind and rain came through. It wasn't bad and we had everything covered.
We left Austin this morning headed mostely southeast towards Lockhart. We weaved through the rolling hills of the new Eaton Park development. It was a very nice planned development with lots of parks and bike lanes on all the roads.
Because we're mostly headed south/southeast today, we're paying for the nice tailwinds we had the last two days.
About halfway to Lockhart, we stopped for brunch at a truckstop that had an IHOP. We zll had a version of eggs, bacon, and pancakes. The blueberry pancakes really hit the spot!
It started to drizzle right before we finished eating. We sat a little longer hoping it would stop. The clouds were low and it was misting good, but it wasn't showing any sign of clearing so we decided to not wait and headed out in the misty drizzle.
The rain wasn't bad and then it just stopped right before we got to Lockhart. There was a huge field full of bluebonnets that I tried to get a picture of but it was so cloudy and hazy the colors just didn't come out. Here is a small patch of bluebonnets from yesterday.
With the haze and drizzle there weren't a lot of pictures from the last half of the day.
The old Caldwell County Jail in Lockhart is now a museum. It was a pretty brick building and still had bars over the windows.
We could see a grand building a couple blocks away and so headed over to see what it was and found the County Courthouse and town square.
We started to head to camp but then decided we didn't want to make another 2 miles trip back into town for dinner. So we just got food to take to camp with us and headed out. Dave carried a 12-pack of Cayman Jack Margaritas to camp for us. They we some malt liquor drink with no tequila but they were cold and tasted good!
There's no picture of camp - I forgot it! We had a nice area and it was quiet. It doesn't get any better than that!
Here are pictures of some prickly pear cactus in bloom that we ran across outside of Bastrop on the first day.
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