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My day started off pretty shitty, so I shirked my assigned duties and had a mental health day. I went on the drive from Bastrop to Beucher State Park. It's a lovely ride, about 15 miles through a patch of pines in the middle of Texas, which is mostly oak. There's another patch of Maples out near Uvalde - I wanna hit that spot in fall. :)
Park Road 1 ends at FM 153...it used to extend a few miles to TX 71...and I took this trip...I can see why they cut it back to FM 153 - there's nothing..."parky" to it...just rolling fields, after leaving this patch of oak and pine.
I hit what I thought was TX 71 to take FM 2573 back to Bastrop....and found myself at the Fayette County Line - WAY off course. Not quite lost, but not where I wanted to be. I keep forgetting my maps book is from 1980, not 2002. They'd built a bypass around Smithville, which wasn't on my map.
So I turned around, and drove SMACK into a hard rain - Not a thunderstorm , but a nice dark cloud with a hard rain. Didn't last too long, but it was nice.
I found a way back to Smithville, and took the Famr to Market Road back home, which has to be one of the more scenic roads I've been on. Most of the road is on the edge of a valley (Or what Texans would call a valley). Lush green trees hanging over a very long hill to your left, and flat plains to your right. And the Colorado River winding VERY near to the road with it's trees. Some places, the trees canopy over the road. VERy nice...VERY relaxing.
I got home, made dinner, which got rid of my guilt for not cleaning the house today (Which, as it would seem, is not a HUGE deal here like it would be at home...where I'd get my ear talked off for half an hour). After dinner, came the thunderstorms. And I went out and enjoyed the sound of rolling thunder and lightning until it got so dark that even I began to think it was a bit dangerous. I walked inside and watched from the Bay Window with Sean.
We all had Ice Cream afterwards (note to self - you are lactose intolerant - remember that next time someone offers you ice cream) and the day was just very very very good and nice and wonderful.
Even thenight was good - I found a website I'm VERY interested in, a whole buncha new webcomics via Gwen, and even talked to Dean for a while.
What a wonderfully gorgeous day this became.
Thanks, everyone. :)
My day started off pretty shitty, so I shirked my assigned duties and had a mental health day. I went on the drive from Bastrop to Beucher State Park. It's a lovely ride, about 15 miles through a patch of pines in the middle of Texas, which is mostly oak. There's another patch of Maples out near Uvalde - I wanna hit that spot in fall. :)
Park Road 1 ends at FM 153...it used to extend a few miles to TX 71...and I took this trip...I can see why they cut it back to FM 153 - there's nothing..."parky" to it...just rolling fields, after leaving this patch of oak and pine.
I hit what I thought was TX 71 to take FM 2573 back to Bastrop....and found myself at the Fayette County Line - WAY off course. Not quite lost, but not where I wanted to be. I keep forgetting my maps book is from 1980, not 2002. They'd built a bypass around Smithville, which wasn't on my map.
So I turned around, and drove SMACK into a hard rain - Not a thunderstorm , but a nice dark cloud with a hard rain. Didn't last too long, but it was nice.
I found a way back to Smithville, and took the Famr to Market Road back home, which has to be one of the more scenic roads I've been on. Most of the road is on the edge of a valley (Or what Texans would call a valley). Lush green trees hanging over a very long hill to your left, and flat plains to your right. And the Colorado River winding VERY near to the road with it's trees. Some places, the trees canopy over the road. VERy nice...VERY relaxing.
I got home, made dinner, which got rid of my guilt for not cleaning the house today (Which, as it would seem, is not a HUGE deal here like it would be at home...where I'd get my ear talked off for half an hour). After dinner, came the thunderstorms. And I went out and enjoyed the sound of rolling thunder and lightning until it got so dark that even I began to think it was a bit dangerous. I walked inside and watched from the Bay Window with Sean.
We all had Ice Cream afterwards (note to self - you are lactose intolerant - remember that next time someone offers you ice cream) and the day was just very very very good and nice and wonderful.
Even thenight was good - I found a website I'm VERY interested in, a whole buncha new webcomics via Gwen, and even talked to Dean for a while.
What a wonderfully gorgeous day this became.
Thanks, everyone. :)
