Friday evening in Syracuse, KS
Friday Travels on my Trek
We drove to the Colorado/Kansas border, took a photo, and then cycled the 16.2 miles to our hotel in Syracuse (First day cheat – hotel, the rest of the trip we’ll be camping)
Thursday/Friday traveling to the start of our adventure
Another training ride
BAK is 12 days away. So I’m out battling the 18 mph SSE wind in preparation for the yellow brick road.
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.
San Antonio Mission Bike Trail
Rockport to Aransas Pass training ride
Conn Harbor training trip
BAK is just over a month away so some training is required.
30 miles battling the wind – just what’s needed before tackling Kansas!
April BridgeWalk
The Easter weekend kind of upset my schedule and I forgot about the Bridge until finally realizing last weekend that it was Saturday or not at all if there was to be an April walk!
Nine of us stalwarts assembled at 8:30am and set off to keep the spirit of BridgeWalk alive.
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.
The Start of Serious Training
The 15mph SSW wind enabled us to easily reach 38mph down hill heading North on the causeway.
Of course returning Southward it was difficult to even reach 10mph!
First Bike Ride of 2022
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.
Copano Bay 
Outbound miles 
Fulton Beach Road – not the usual type of crane seen here 
Inbound miles 
Coffee stop
Total miles 
Stats