Abiline, Texas - Friday 27th September

We bid farewell to Route 66 - for this trip - as we left Amarillo this morning and pointed south and east as we began our 3 day ride across Texas. Texas is HUGE (nearly 270,000 square miles - by way of comparison, the entire UK is a little over 90,000 square miles), largely flat and the only things to look at are cows (LOTS of cows), wind farms and the odd "nodding donkey" drawing oil. It is also VERY hot - from mid morning the temperature steadily rose into the high 90Fs actually breaking 100F at times in the afternoon. This was the dash readout on my bike when we arrived at our hotel at 5pm after 310 miles in the sunshine:

Not a great deal to report on today other than a most excellent coffee stop this morning in Briscoe where we were served by Rowdy the only blind barista in Texas and feasted on his mother's delicious pumpkin, cinnamon and choc chip muffins straight from the oven. Briscoe also has an old jailhouse as it's main tourist attraction:

Further down the road lunch was taken at George's Greek restaurant in Post. Tonight we are staying in Abiline and the group is having pizza and a showing of "The World's Fastest Indian", a true story of a New Zealand motorcyclist, Burt Monroe, played by Anthony Hopkins.