Road Trip Rumination

June 27, 2018
Wednesday
Texas

On lazy, hazy summer afternoons or evenings usually after a ride or chores and equipped with an adult beverage and salty snack we break out the road atlas and start thinking about where Tim's annual July birthday ride will take us.

Our plans are rarely set in stone as we are prone to going off-plan once we start rolling. We usually pick a general direction and think on what the contingency plan is likely to be if the original destination doesn't work out. It's July in Texas so we know we are going to ride HOT and likely in triple digit heat. Monsoons often plague Texas at this time of year too. We will ride wet but not intentionally. When the moisture starts streaming up from the Gulf it can get nasty wet in these parts and due east.

So we have a tentative plan A (ride east) and a tentative plan B (ride south) and a tentative plan C (ride north). I told Tim after last year's west Texas canyon ride in July that we don't ride west again unless the destination is high and cool in New Mexico or Colorado! Ha!

Stay cool! Stay tuned.