Goose Island State Park – about 13 miles out.
Sat awhile and watched this chap fishing.
Stopped at the Duck Blind at Fulton Harbor on the way home.
It’s only another 2 or 3 miles to home.
We were not the only folks on the bridge this morning. This group, flying the Australian flag, we’re heading North as we made our way back South.
Cyclists were out for a ride too. They headed off up the Joe Fulton Corridor.
Farewell to the non-COVID related upper respiratory infection which kept me off my bike for the first two weeks of the New Year (Happy New Year by the way!)
For the first time in 2022 I was able to take to the roads of Rockport again even although the temperature was technically below my acclimatized low norm of 75F. At least the wind had reduced from the Sunday high of 26 MPH to a more realistic 1 to 9 MPH.
As I rode through Copano Village I waved at a cyclist heading in the opposite direction from me and thought no more about it until I stopped at Fulton Harbor for coffee and encountered that same cyclist again. He is a winter Texan from Michigan (probably thought the weather was tropical – I still think it’s cold) and he was riding my route in reverse. We had a pleasant chat about suitable, low traffic, local cycling routes and then carried on in our respective directions.
Decided not to cross the causeway today because I’d have to fight the SSE wind to get back. Pretty sure I’d end up falling off the bike due to extreme slow speed or even walking over the causeway into that wind!
Well yes, the wind remained out of the North and I sailed home over the causeway reaching an exciting 35.0 mph on the downhill stretch. Averaged 18 mph on Fulton Beach Road and stopped for a coffee and croissant at The Duck Blind at Fulton Harbor.
