Are we there yet, Daddy?: Can Anybody see the Hill Country from Here?

PICTURES may have to wait till Kerrville tomorrow.
Day 25 Bracketville to Concan for a REST DAY!
The ride to Concan was a nice ride. While we did start into a slight headwind, we made a turn to the north in Uvalde, where we stopped at an old Drive-in now called Ofelia's for Mexican food. The northward turn did two things, got us a slight tailwind and after about 20 miles the topography changed drastically and almost instantly from the dry, flat, brown of “West Texas” to the rolling, green “Texas Hill Country”.
Also we have dropped quite a bit of altitude so the morning temperatures are a LOT warmer and the highs are going to go for the 60-70s to the high 80s or 90s. Heck, there was DEW on my tent this morning!
All this change in one day's ride... Go figure.

Here at the Riverbend campground we are out of our tents for two nights and have a CABIN here for four of us: Roland, RO, PW and myself. The layout is for a family with a queen bed in the main area and three smaller beds in the back room. Guess who got the Queen? Hehehehe. Pays to be first into camp!! Now, I did NOT move the luggage around, I just walked in, long before my roomies arrived, and my luggage was already placed there just by luck of the draw but for some incomprehensible reason they don't believe me.... However my suitemates DID admit that had they arrived before me, the first to arrive would have magically been in that bed... If you can't throw your friends under to bus, what's the point in having them?

On this day off there are NO activities planned! Took the day to adjust my brakes that were squealing like mad, clean the bike up, empty my duffles and shake out the sand and repack. And take three (so far!) HOT showers in our own private bathroom!!!!! Amazing how one changes one's mind about what constitutes “luxury” when on a two month bicycle trip........
Wish Michelle was back. My legs need a massage!

Almost there

The edge of Hill Country

Our cabin for two nights

my "room"... SCORE!

Their room..... hehehe

Day 24 Comstock to Brackettville
We rode into decreasing headwinds for most of the ride so it was far more doable than yesterday. Had a shopping stop mid-route at the Wal-Mart in Del Rio for a few depleted items then to Rudy's a few yards away for some Texas BBQ. The brisket was OK but better at the highs school! And my pulled pork is LOTS better! ;-)
We then had a police escort out of town, one car for each ten riders. Weird... We must have made quite an impression, huh?

I rode solo today and arrived at our camp at Fort Clark quite early. Very intersting area. Fort Clark was a US Army Fort since the mid 1800s and saw Robert E Lee, Usslyses S Grant, Douglas MacArthur and George S Patton were ALL stationed there at some point in their career! The place is HUGE and was turned over to civillian use following WWII and many of the homes and places you can rent/stay are the original Army barracks and buildings.