Friday, September 19, 2014

The End is in Sight

Well, this one didn't go exactly according to plan but that's reality.  

No more pictures of interest or tales of interesting things we've seen.

We had intended to spend a couple of more days in Texas than we actually did, but the weather changed our plans.  Riding in the rain isn't fun and can be dangerous so we don't intentionally go out riding in the rain.  We had the option of sitting in the hotel room and watching it rain or leave and try to avoid the rain so we decided to start toward home but stay off the interstates, and use secondary roads to get a better view of the states we were passing through.

We managed to avoid rain of any consequence until yesterday afternoon around 3:00 PM.  We were traveling across Louisiana with soybean and cotton fields all around us.  We could see off in the distance that it appeared to be raining and we had already run through a couple of brief showers so we found a safe place to pull off and put on our rain suits.  We took off and about 10 minutes later hit rain which lasted for about an hour and a half. The last thirty minutes was pretty intense and even though we had rain suits on, we still got pretty wet.

All in all we had a good trip but it would have been more fun if the weather had been better and we could have spent a couple more days in the hill country of central Texas.

I should have mentioned at the beginning of this trip that if you click on the photos I have posted, they will go to full screen and look much better.