Blessing

October 1/09 - Bay City, TX
La Quinta Hotel
Mileage: 88 km
Total mileage: 4,246 km

Beautiful calm morning. Left Port Lavaca with the sun shining. Crossed the bay of Port Lavaca over an approximately 1.5 mile bridge. North of the bay it was fairly industrial, but then increasingly turned into ranching country.

Our travels took us away from the Gulf and the trees began to get bigger. We turned west on a Texas farm road heading for Blessing, TX. What Texas calls farm roads are far from what we think of as farm roads and are actually what we would think of as main hwys. In fact, some of the smoothest and most effortless travelling that we have had has been on these roads.

En route to Blessing there was beautiful agricultural land and pasture land. Farm yards were pretty to pass by as they were surrounded by huge Texas shade trees.

We entered Blessing and found it to be a quaint and humble town in appearance. Again, with its large trees, smaller homes, and main street, it appeared like a refreshing step back in time. Aptly named.

After lunch in Blessing, we cycled on to Bay City. Bay City is quite large. We got a room at the La Quinta Hotel and met up with my brother and sister-in-law, Greg and Abby. Greg and Abby were on their way home to Misson, TX from a vacation in New Orleans. We went out for supper together and then spent a nice evening visiting at the hotel.