Just after starting out this morning (with the air still cool enough to warrant a jacket—though I wasn’t wearing one), I came across this beautifully landscaped visitor’s center.
19 April 2011 (posted the next evening). After I got to Langtry, Texas, I dropped off my stuff at the trailer where I’m staying—a WarmShowers host who lets people camp for free or charges for the use of his spare trailer—and biked into “town” to visit the Judge Roy Bean Visitors Center.
They have a weather station there and the temperature hit 104 while I was visiting! But it’s dry heat, you know; doesn’t feel a bit warmer than 100! I think my body’s not acclimated to the heat. By the end of the day (after about 65 miles) I had crusted salt deposits on my face and neck. It’s really something else! Fortunately, I had a tailwind pushing me along. Tomorrow, I’m not going to be so lucky, with an east or southeast wind forecast. I think I’m about 60 miles from Del Rio.
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