{"id":1176,"date":"2017-06-11T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2017-06-12T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T01:44:27","slug":"camp-wood-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/camp-wood-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Wood, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too hard today.\u00a0 I woke before sunrise, and the\u00a0 morning cat greeted me.\u00a0 The morning cat was a tortoise shell, while the night cat was a tuxedo.\u00a0 Sorry, I don’t have any food.<\/em>\u00a0 I left camp at 7:15.<\/p>\n

\"tortoise
Goodbye, Day Room and Morning Cat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stripes
I got two $1.19 breakfast tacos at Stripes. Yes, there were still flies. I also got a chicken salad sandwich from the refrigerator, since there would be no services for the whole 50 miles to Camp Wood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heavily overcast almost all day. The Lord is my strength and my sunscreen.<\/p>\n

I had eaten up all my cookies, but remembered the Praline that Kyle gave me. It wasn’t like peanut brittle at all, nor was it like a cookie. Mostly it resembled a big disc of frosting that one might find on a cinnamon roll. It was a good boost of sugar.<\/p>\n

\"dry
This is a typical river in this area. They don’t bother to build bridges. The river was completely dry, but in the rainy season, it must run right over the road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"sheep\"
The bleating of sheep was unmistakeable. I also saw 4 (live) deer on the way. No rabbits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"melons
I got into Camp Wood at about 3 pm. There were some people selling melons out of the back of their truck. I bought one for $2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Marilyn's
Camp Wood had a surprising number of stores for a town of about a thousand. This was Marilyn’s Knives, Jewelry, Quilts, and Furniture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"sign
Close up, these were the humorous signs in the window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"melon
Cantaloupe \u00e1 la Motel Ice Bucket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I walked a few blocks down the main street to Two Fat Boys BBQ for dinner.<\/p>\n

\"two
Aping what the locals were ordering, I got the rib plate, with beans as one of the sides. I rationalized that a large was okay, as I needed calories for the climbs the next day. The beans were outstanding. Had I known they would be that good, I would have made both my sides beans, or possibly made my whole dinner beans.\u00a0 The waitress told me that they simmer their beans all night long.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"bbq
Not long after.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow’s goal is to go over the 4 steep peaks and stay at a motel near Vanderpool. The safety goal is to get to Leakey, over just one peak, 21 miles away. This is supposed to be a very difficult segment. The ACA map warns that it is difficult. A local store owner today told me that it’s a steep climb just to Leakey. And Brian told me that he walked his bike on parts of it. Google Maps says 3 hours for a bicycle. Ha!<\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to fine-tune my cyclometer to better match the new wheel circumference. Unfortunately, it locked up late in my ride today, and I had to reset it, so the mileage is an estimate.<\/p>\n

Miles for today: 52 (estimate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not too hard today.\u00a0 I woke before sunrise, and the\u00a0 morning cat greeted me.\u00a0 The morning cat was a tortoise shell, while the night cat was a tuxedo.\u00a0 Sorry, I don’t have any food.\u00a0 I left camp at 7:15. Heavily overcast almost all day. The Lord is my strength and my sunscreen. I had eaten … Continue reading Camp Wood, TX<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}