We decided to leave even earlier this morning and set an alarm for 5:30am! It was tough getting up that early, but it is just so fucking hot and muggy, after 12 o'clock you are in serious danger off passing out if you happen to get stopped at road works or run into traffic. Too bad it was fucking 28 degrees at half past 6 in the morning!
The heat in the desert was more bearable, even though it was hot it was a dry heat, but moving through Texas and into the south, the humidity has gone through the roof, and it's just impossible to cool down.
In the desert, if you sweat, it actually evaporates and cools you. In Texas and Louisiana, you just stay wet and hot!
The only way to stay cool is to go fast! luckily the interstates are all 130km/h (80mph) which makes 90% humidity and 38 degrees truly awful, but bearable.
We rode 497 kms to Munroe today, and unfortunately, we broke the law again - and for the same reason - to avoid traffic and not pass out. We took the 'Russian Lane' which is the shoulder of the road, to avoid some stupid people who thought it was necessary to merge lanes straight away rather than to drive all the way to the obstruction and then merge.
The further we go south, the worse and less courteous the drivers tend to be, and the more aggressive, but weirdly, off the road the people are friendlier. Today a guy with an amazing drawl had a 5 minute conversation with us at the service station about travel, which was good because up until then we had not heard a proper Texan accent! We chatted to him about riding through Poland and he had lots of questions about where we had been and where we were going.
The riding today was all interstate! we jumped onto the I-20 at McKinney and followed it all the way to Munroe. There wasn't much to see from the road except more road and scrub. You will have to use your imagination as to what Louisiana looks like, because I didn't take one scrap of helmet cam footage all day. That's really how little there was to see.
After checking into the hotel, we had some really nice BBQ from a small shack next door to the Hotel, and for dinner, being in Lousiana - it had to be fired chicken with beans and rice, green beans, and mashed potatoes for sides. It was nice, while eating it, but made you feel a bit gross afterwards. I think that gross feeling was made up of about 40% guilt though.
Off to Alabama tomorrow, another 440km day and an another early start!
The heat in the desert was more bearable, even though it was hot it was a dry heat, but moving through Texas and into the south, the humidity has gone through the roof, and it's just impossible to cool down.
In the desert, if you sweat, it actually evaporates and cools you. In Texas and Louisiana, you just stay wet and hot!
The only way to stay cool is to go fast! luckily the interstates are all 130km/h (80mph) which makes 90% humidity and 38 degrees truly awful, but bearable.
We rode 497 kms to Munroe today, and unfortunately, we broke the law again - and for the same reason - to avoid traffic and not pass out. We took the 'Russian Lane' which is the shoulder of the road, to avoid some stupid people who thought it was necessary to merge lanes straight away rather than to drive all the way to the obstruction and then merge.
The further we go south, the worse and less courteous the drivers tend to be, and the more aggressive, but weirdly, off the road the people are friendlier. Today a guy with an amazing drawl had a 5 minute conversation with us at the service station about travel, which was good because up until then we had not heard a proper Texan accent! We chatted to him about riding through Poland and he had lots of questions about where we had been and where we were going.
The riding today was all interstate! we jumped onto the I-20 at McKinney and followed it all the way to Munroe. There wasn't much to see from the road except more road and scrub. You will have to use your imagination as to what Louisiana looks like, because I didn't take one scrap of helmet cam footage all day. That's really how little there was to see.
After checking into the hotel, we had some really nice BBQ from a small shack next door to the Hotel, and for dinner, being in Lousiana - it had to be fired chicken with beans and rice, green beans, and mashed potatoes for sides. It was nice, while eating it, but made you feel a bit gross afterwards. I think that gross feeling was made up of about 40% guilt though.
Off to Alabama tomorrow, another 440km day and an another early start!
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