April 9 Day 19 cycling Navasota to LaGrange, TX

Navasota last night – the Blues Capital of TX with some great public art and near to both Presidential Libraries for George H.W. & George W. Bush.

Moved on to a new Souther Tier map section today, and it has elevation profiles! …. guess we’ll be doing some climbing unlike the very flat ride we’ve had so far! Yesterday was a warm up with nearly 3000’.

We are traveling right to left on the profile.

Southeasterly mostly favorable winds and cloud cover kept the temps reasonable. 77.8 miles & 3350’ with a stellar TransAm kind of day, in stark contrast to yesterday! Only two sections of busy highways with decent enough shoulders and then country roads, some without even line markings. Lots of ranches with amazing entry gates. Tom took photos of many. Lots of American flags and Texas flags flying at the same height. Wildflowers are prime!! Incredible live oak trees and some gorgeous juniper-like trees. And a few cute, small historic towns like Independence, Burton (with the oldest still operating cotton gin) and Round Top. Made it into LaGrange, TX before a downpour! 😊