March 28, 2017. New Waverly Texas to Kountze Texas 85 miles. 1861 miles from the Pacific. My two day rest at Dominik and Sadie’s new home in Houston left me feeling energetic this morning. Dominik drops me off back on the route in New Haven before sun up . A great day to be on the bike riding through the Big Thicket national preserve. This place is green and alive with sounds of a swamp and smells of pine and cedar fill the air. There are beautiful flowers of every color along the roadside. I see a bluebird, Baltimore oriole, Blue-heron, snakes and turtles. This place has everything that flies, crawls, or hangs from a tree. The Spanish moss clings to the branches of large trees making it look spooky. I ride through the shaded undergrowth with a feeling like something might jump out and get me . The road is good and the traffic is fairly light all morning. The light headwinds of the morning build in the afternoon and make the last 30 miles really tough. I arrive in town and decide to get a hotel because it’s too windy to set up camp happy. I jump in the hotel pool and life is immediately better.
I can’t believe I’m close to entering Louisiana. I got a feeling it might happen tomorrow. It’s taken me almost a month to cross Texas. I am definitely ready to move on to another state.
Cheers, Mike
