{"id":22677,"date":"2018-04-21T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2018-04-21T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:34:33","slug":"day-7-saturday-april-21-aransas-pass-to-port-lavaca-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=22677","title":{"rendered":"Day 7. Saturday April 21 – Aransas Pass to Port Lavaca, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overcast skies and a warm 71\u00b0, as we were hit by our first day of Texas humidity. \u00a0 Not a free standing retail sign remained intact, but the town was mostly cleaned up from the hurricane.\"\"<\/a>Some business were closed forever,\"\"<\/a> while others welcomed customers with warmly glowing Open signs. \u00a0Outside of town, a rough road awaited us, but a 15 mph tailwind made it much more tolerable. \u00a0This area took a lot of damage, \"\"<\/a>the towns of\u00a0Rockport and Fulton getting hit with 180 mph winds. \u00a0Last night, Chuck told us of this boatel \"\"<\/a>that had just completed the removal of the mangled boats from the buildings\u00a0(after 8 months). \u00a0But there were some beautiful areas\"\"<\/a> and all the towns seemed to be making the best \"\"<\/a>of what Mother Nature had dealt.<\/p>\n

Twenty miles in and after climbing a two mile bridge,\"\"<\/a> we managed a flat tire about the same time the heavy sky started spitting on us. \u00a0Less than thirty minutes later we were back on a long (25 mile) flat road\"\"<\/a> of a hole lotta\u00a0nutting’<\/i>; \"\"<\/a>beautiful wild flowers about all there was….\"\"<\/a>…except for this guy….thankfully very<\/em> dead.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By the time we reached Tivoli (locally pronounced Tie vole E<\/em>) our bodies were scrambled from four hours of bumpy riding. \u00a0We had two choices for lunch, DQ and a Mexican restaurant, both mainstays in every Texas town;\"\"<\/a> we went local.<\/p>\n

Shortly after leaving our lunch stop, we crossed a county line and gained a wonderfully smooth road. \u00a0Unfortunately, the slight turn in the road put the now 20 mph wind directly at our side, punishing our tired legs. \u00a0With 19 miles to our destination, we knew we could push on. \u00a0But both Google and the mile markers lied, we had 25 miles more. \u00a0Had we known this when we planned today’s ride, we would have reconsidered. \u00a0However, once we arrived at our hotel after 69 miles, we were happy to have gotten this far; \"\"<\/a>justly rewarded after six hours in the saddle.<\/p>\n\n\t\t