All the Way to San Antone

Monday, January 14, 2013
San Antonio, Texas, United States
It was really cold this morning -- down in the low twenties. The hotel fountain froze and my bike seat was covered with frost. The highway through the high desert scrub was beautifully empty. I screamed along, not stopping until I hit the Pecos -- just above its junction with the Rio Grande.  
 
 
 
A little further along, the Amistad dam on the Rio Grande sets up a two country lake in the middle of the desert - now 40 feet below normal levels. Here US 90 turns inland. I sat through what I hope is my last Border Patrol checkpoint, and headed direct to San Antonio -- with traffic increasing and the land becoming much more occupied.  

 I feel like I am being forced unwillingly back into civilization. Other than US 90 there are not that many roads I can use to escape the omniscient Interstate 10 as I head on East to Houston and Port Arthur.
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Comments

Haqrry
2013-01-15

Did you find the Rose of San Anton, in San Antinio?

Lynn/David
2013-01-18

Come back to balmy Virginia, Jim! We are enjoying your travel blog. Maybe you should ave come back via warm and sunny Chicago.

2025-02-15

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