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August 16th, 2007

Mother Nature is out to get me…

It’s my fault really.  I got so use to the So. Cal. climate that I haven’t even been checking the weather anymore.  I would get up, get dressed and go riding…. no bad days in southern California.  However, I’m a long way from San Diego now. 

Today I was finishing up my trip east to San Antonio, TX (to get service on my bike tomorrow).  Ironically, I was thinking how neat it was that I haven’t worn my raingear in a month.   I was also just getting out of the desert (after about 1000 miles) – things were good.  Then it happened… at first a few drops of rain on my face – this will blow over…  A few more drops… a little closer together this time - I guess I better get on my gear… Then the storm came in hard. 

As it turned out, I was entering the forward edge of tropical storm Erin and I still had 120 miles to go.  The storm was tracking a northwest course as I was following the same line heading southeast.  The last 30 miles were terrible and navigating into downtown San Antonio (to my reserved hotel) was absolutely terrifying.  The traffic was crazy – only a few feet of visibility - cars off the road or just stalled out in travel lanes and puddles up to my cylinder heads and a true fear of being blown off my bike.  San Antonio’s not a small town.  There were flashing signs: “water in road….” — what the hell am I suppose to do with THAT information.

I said a word of thanks when I finally made it to my motel.

Here are a couple pictures before the rain came

Keep your dogs on a leash… and… oh yeah, BEWARE OF SNAKES!

I thought this was a neat image – I liked the graffiti

I must have been on the road too long… I’m starting to see images in the landscape

(okay – i kinda cheated.  there was only one mountain – i “implanted” the second)

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