April 7 Day 17 cycling Kountze to Coldspring, TX

Nourishment is important when you are cycling 4-7 hours a day! Peanut butter, honey and banana sandwiches daily, caffeine in some form, egg frittata, super hero muffin, nut/raisin mix, small orange or apple and/or whatever we buy at rest stops. Preferred cycling bottle beverage is 1/3 cranberry juice 2/3 water. I have yet to find an electrolyte supplement I like.

Today’s cycling included short lovely bike path, then short country road, then 70mph hwy with rumble-strip-loaded narrow shoulder. Thank goodness very little traffic on that hwy we were on for 30+miles. Then various mixed highways. Thousands of acres of pine plantations. And sheez another rear flat tire for me a few miles from the end! Thanks again Steven. I did change out my tire tonight. 67.2 miles and 1620’ elevation, and I’m tired.

Our great luck with little 2 star motels caught up with us here in Coldspring… motel owner’s personal and personnel problems made for a several hour wait for Jody’s room! But then out to a lovely Sam Houston National Forest (which Jody had scouted earlier in the day) for a lakeside dinner of taco salad.

Sun at our back again and favorable N/NE winds
Lots of wide rumble strips
but thankfully light traffic
Cold morning start today under 50 degrees
Different road and different rumble!
Livingston Lake dam and Trinity River
My domestique Steven 😊
changing the third flat! 😩
Sam Houston National Forest
dinner at the campground

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