Day 33, TX, Dripping Springs to Bastrop

Leaving our luxury accommodations, we headed into Austin on the two lane roads shown on the map. Traffic was moderately heavy at times and there was no shoulder for most of it. I had the worst treatment yet from the normally excellent Texas drivers. I dived off the pavement because a dually pickup was coming too close, too fast. Another gave me lots of room but yelled the F- off as he went by. A woman in an SUV laid on the horn as she passed me and vigorously shook her middle finger at me after she passed even though she had clear passage around me. Life must be stressful In Austin. 

This is a bridge on the western outskirts of Austin. It spanned a river about a 100 feet below. 

This is the end of the Lance Armstrong Bikeway on the southeast side of Austin. It dumped us out on some undesirable roads until we got about 5 miles down the road. We ate a late lunch at a gas station with some fried chicken and taco type food. Just outside of Cedar Creek Jim got a clicking noise which turned out to be a knot of thick wire stuck in the rear tire. He pulled it out with no leakage. The Kevlar flat proof strip must've stopped it from hitting the tube. A few minutes later he stopped again because the rear tire was going flat. This time it was a little fragment of wire from a steel belted car tire again. 

We stopped for night at the Blue Bonnet RV Park. The proprietor fired up the propane hot water heater for the semi open showers next to the tent site. $10 each and the owner built us a fire with the free firewood, a first on the trip. It's nice away from the RV's in a wooded area. 

60 miles today