Had a great day ride yesterday - first full-day riding in quite a long time. Austin to Alpine, via the Sisters:
Link to this map on Locus
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I've used the Android app Locus for probably 10 years now, but I've started using the web version to plan routes. It takes a little getting used to, but cuts a couple steps out of my previous process. It has a "shortest" routing option that is very aggressive - taking every single shorter route it can find, and some were not legal roads, like this one:
Gates at both ends, so I just stayed on 337 - which isn't a bad alternative. Overall, the route was exactly what I wanted, and took 5 waypoints; Austin, Medina, Camp Wood, Bracketville, Alpine.
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Rained on me for about a hour leaving Austin, the I picked up taco's in Comfort, and had then riverside at the Nueces south of Camp Wood:
Stopped for fuel just outside Amistad, and that's when the skies opened up again. Dropped from 72°F to 50°F in about 2 minutes, and from nice a sunny, to driving rain and north wind so bad that I thought it would blow me off the bridge into the Pecos. Those road cuts on HWY 90 cause a little windy chaos in good weather, but this was a bit harrowing. That let up a little before Dryden, and the rest of the ride into Alpine was cold, but dry.
Route shows 439 miles, and odometer shows 465 (didn't route door to door, just to city outskirts).
New bike did wonderfully: glamor shot outside an art gallery in Bracketville: