Mileage - 43.1; Total Mileage - 83.2 miles
Last night was interesting.
It was dead calm all evening and when we went to bed last night. I woke up about 2am to the wind blowing like crazy. The cool front had made it and the wind was noticeably cooler! Of course, it was blowing from the same direction we were headed today so we knew it would be an interesting ride. We were hoping to get lucky and have it shift some during the day.
The marina had a restaurant that was open for breakfast this morning. I stopped in and had an order of French toast and got an egg and cheese with biscuit to go for Dave to have at our morning break.
Sun over Lake Fork this morning leaving camp.
We got out of camp about 9:15 this morning. At that hour, most people have already headed to work and traffic is usually lighter. The road leaving the lake was pretty busy but once we were away from the lake the traffic died down. For the most part, the drivers were courteous.
Water tower at the top of a climb. We always like to see these ahead because we know it is "high ground" and the climbing is about over.
As Dave said this morning during a break, "There is no easy riding today!" The wind was a constant "friend" in our faces all day. It was blowing hard enough this morning that you couldn't really coast down hill. We had a good break at 11 miles for a snack. After that, it felt like a long slog all the way to Winnsboro. We took several mini-breaks at the side of the road when needed and slowly crawled into Winnsboro.
We also love to see the reduced speed limit signs before a town. We know a break and food are close!
After lunch at DQ in Winnsboro, we only had 18 planned miles to camp. We were hoping for some more quiet backroads and so we went off route onto some county roads. They were exactly that and we enjoyed them, until we hit some hills with 12+% grades with some headwind to add insult to injury!
Quiet, shady county road this afternoon (before the stupid hills!)
Old, dormant oil pump jack in a field.
The route change also added another couple miles to an already long day. The last 4 miles had more of the steep grades and it felt like 10. We stopped at a convenience store right before the park to get drinks and snacks for camp. They also had a grill and we could have gotten dinner there, but we decided to have onenof our freeze-dried meals instead.
Dinner! After a long day on the bike these taste great.
We made it to Lake Bob Sandlin for camp about 4:15 which was earlier than we thought it would be given all the wind. We have a site on the water with easy access to get in the lake, which of course means we went for a swim to cool off before doing anything else. 😁
View of the lake from our campsite.
Cool mussels shell Dave found in the lake this afternoon.
It definitely was getting cooler by the time we finished dinner. It is supposed to be in the low 50's tonight so we will both sleep well. We have a shorter day tomorrow, and after two longer days we will enjoy a little bit of rest.
We are headed to Mt. Pleasant tomorrow night and will have deluxe accomodations at the local KOA Kampground.
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