Since I didn’t have a huge amount of miles to eat today, it was more about touring, seeing things I had not seen before and then getting to Austin around the time the ladies were getting home.

I stopped in to see the Burton Cotton Gin, this bad-boy has been around for a long time, has a huge amount of contraptions and I was shocked when the lady said it had the modern equivalent of maybe 125 BHP. So right now I am laying down into my back tire enough power to run this whole Gin. Bonkers.

Good old work-wife Joanne as soon as I got to the house she had a load of Fat Tires waiting for me. We got to go through the crazy flagship wholefoods store, I had never walked in an aisle long beer cooler before. We also of course checked out the bats of Austin that were in fine form. Joanne and Darlene also have a really cool way of doing business. As they live far enough out of town that you need to drive, the partner that does not know the guest gets to get hammered and your representative is the DD. What better way to get to know people than laughing at the DD.

I could see living in Austin, obviously I didn’t spend very long there, and after a few days on the cycle this was my longest break, I arrived there before sunset and left the next day but there was a cool vibe. And of course the house they had was insane.

Some more heavy miles starting tomorrow so I will enjoy a nice comfortable bed tonight.