Day 34- Shepherd to Silsbee

Dawn over Lake Thompson RV Park where we spent our last night in Texas.

Happy gear day. This is a term used by Rose to describe when you are pedaling without any appreciable effort. Usually on long flat or slightly downhill terrain as we experienced today in Eastern Texas.

We continued almost due East again North of Houston and then Beaumont using FM country roads. Except for frequent passing of trucks hauling logs to paper mills the roads and surrounding roads were idyllic. 

We passed over a small lake and stopped for lunch at a country general store. Their specialty was a fried balogna sandwich. I opted for a cheeseburger and a Coke. Several of us stopped in Silsbee for supplies and, of course, some ice cream, before heading to the overnight campground.