Trans America Cycling Day 28 - Austin, TX to La Grange, TX
The link to today's route and statistics is found here. We rode across Austin, population of city and suburbs of around a million, this morning, taking a route selected by Trans-America Cycling to avoid heavy traffic. Because it was Sunday, traffic wasn't heavy. We now have ridden east into high humidity that we will probably continue to experience in east Texas and following days in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Hydration is very important in the high humidity. Yesterday and today Bart Sherwood, the T rain A D og - S ave A W arrior ( TADSAW) Program Director, met with us in Austin and La Grange. Bart spoke to cyclists and the TAC staff at the 5:00 pm route meeting in Austin. Later we made a video of Bart speaking about Medical Alert Service Dogs and TADSAW. Bart thanked cyclists for their support of veterans and TADSAW, and to show his gratitude gave each cyclist and TAC staff a TADSAW tee-shirt. Cyclists thanked him for helping us better und