We were on the road around 8 this morning. We took the new(ish) road around Austin that has an 80 MPH speed limit. Let me tell you how much David hated that ... LOL. It worked out really well and we avoided traffic issues. A lot of other power tour participants took this road also. We caught up with the route at Hutto TX.
We went through the town of Taylor TX. It had a really cute downtown area and there were people all through the town sitting and watching and waiving as we came through. At the main intersection downtown where we had to make a turn the towns people were handing out bottles of water to the power tour participants. A little further down at another intersection a local police office was working the traffic lights so that we had a green light and avoided a lot of long waits for us. Taylor was a pretty cool little town!
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Temple. The convenience store that a lot of us stopped at was completely over run but the workers there handled it like pro's, they did an awesome job.
We then went through McGregor TX which also had a neat downtown area. Here is a picture of one of the really cool old buildings. We had to laugh at the sign in the window that said "Hillary for Prison 2016". The entire downtown area was lined with American flags, it was a great sight.
We traveled some great back roads today and couldn't help but notice the difference in the trees. They were getting smaller and fewer as we traveled north. TX Hwy 56 was a very scenic, curvy, hill country road. The Hot Rod magazine people that picked this road did a great good.
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| We followed this beauty for awhile this morning. |
We passed through Crawford Tx but didn't see George or Laura.
We crossed Lake Whitney over the dam into the Bosque River. The flood gates were open and they were moving a lot of water. There was flooding in the area around Laguna Park.
Lunch was a quick stop in Hillsboro and then we made it to the venue, Traders Village in Grand Prairie around 1:30. The weather was much better today. No rain and much lower humidity. It was hot but bearable. We stayed at the venue longer today. This is the venue that we didn't think would be set up well, boy were we wrong! This was the best one of the week so far. The parking for participants wasn't very far from the main area. There were plenty of gates for people to get in and out. There were several food and drink vendors on site and their prices were pretty reasonable. They also had really nice, big, clean restrooms.
We checked into our hotel around 4. After cooling off for awhile we met David's cousin, Marty and his wife Dee Dee for dinner. We had a really nice dinner and enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with them. Thanks for taking time out to see us!!!
We are off to Oklahoma City tomorrow and look forward to another great day.
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