August 15, 2006 - Day 36 - 490 Miles Grants, NM – Childress, TX
Grants, NM – Childress, TX
Left Grants in the familar raingear. Managed to get through Albuquerque dry but then the rains came. There were storm cells spread out all across the north and north east in a large band. By the time I got to Santa Rosa they were all around, and over me. The intensity varied considerably from light to heavy, with the heaviest waiting until I was in a very long road repair section near Tucumcari. Then it poured. My shooter’s glasses fogged up in the heaviest rain, adding insult to injury; I had to ride at 70 mph with the glasses pulled down on my nose creating a small slit between the top of the glasses, and my helmet. No one, repeat, no one, was slowing down for the construction because the crews had pulled in with the weather. I would have too except there was no where to do so. So, I just grinned (actually, screamed curses) and bore it.
At least the rain gods saw clear to send me a rainbow once in Texas.
Rainbow just north of Childress, TX
This was boring interstate riding at its worst. In case you haven’t figured it out: I’m pulling for home at this point. I am going to take Hwy 6 from Quanah tomorrow and ride it down through Waco and on into the Houston area. I’m familiar with the Waco-Houston stretch, but have never been in the northern end of Hwy 6. It has to beat the Ft-Worth-Dallas-Houston mess they call I-35/I-20/I-45. In any event, it’s new road. Hope the rain lets up. As I write this in the motel room, it's still raining outside. Bet when I get home my roof leaks.
Summary to date is now:
Rain day – 23 (66%)
Clear day – 12 (34%)
Donley County Courthouse - Clarendon, TX
I took this because last October I came through here on a trip to Palo Duro Canyon and snapped this courthouse. When I got home only three of about fifty pictures were still on the "memory" stik. It's a neatly restored old courthouse.
Left Grants in the familar raingear. Managed to get through Albuquerque dry but then the rains came. There were storm cells spread out all across the north and north east in a large band. By the time I got to Santa Rosa they were all around, and over me. The intensity varied considerably from light to heavy, with the heaviest waiting until I was in a very long road repair section near Tucumcari. Then it poured. My shooter’s glasses fogged up in the heaviest rain, adding insult to injury; I had to ride at 70 mph with the glasses pulled down on my nose creating a small slit between the top of the glasses, and my helmet. No one, repeat, no one, was slowing down for the construction because the crews had pulled in with the weather. I would have too except there was no where to do so. So, I just grinned (actually, screamed curses) and bore it.
At least the rain gods saw clear to send me a rainbow once in Texas.
Rainbow just north of Childress, TX
This was boring interstate riding at its worst. In case you haven’t figured it out: I’m pulling for home at this point. I am going to take Hwy 6 from Quanah tomorrow and ride it down through Waco and on into the Houston area. I’m familiar with the Waco-Houston stretch, but have never been in the northern end of Hwy 6. It has to beat the Ft-Worth-Dallas-Houston mess they call I-35/I-20/I-45. In any event, it’s new road. Hope the rain lets up. As I write this in the motel room, it's still raining outside. Bet when I get home my roof leaks.
Summary to date is now:
Rain day – 23 (66%)
Clear day – 12 (34%)
Donley County Courthouse - Clarendon, TX
I took this because last October I came through here on a trip to Palo Duro Canyon and snapped this courthouse. When I got home only three of about fifty pictures were still on the "memory" stik. It's a neatly restored old courthouse.
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