Beached

Yeah, kinda like the whales. I can understand why they just want to lay there on the warm soft sand. We have gotten another dose of the big sand suck. Still on Padre Island and it is warm, the waves are hypnotic. The beaches are nearly deserted. The water is 67 degrees. The temp is 84 and a light breeze. Shore birds are everywhere. We can do a lot of this. Eat, read, sleep, repeat. Sorry for all of you suffering the wind and heavy rain at home. It is just a distant memory for us.

We have noticed that our bikes are getting a little rusty with all the salt air so we decided that we don't care about trying to protect them as much anymore, and took a long ride up the beach. A good 8-9 miles round trip. All on the hard packed sand near the waves. We rinse our bikes in the outdoor shower when we return and spray the chains and gears with some good quality product we got at the bike shop. We are glad that we bought less expensive bikes so that we can use them, and even use them up if that is what has to happen. After all, isn't that why we have them? It was great fun and we got to go a lot farther than we ever could have on foot. We ride the 3/4 mile to the visitor center some days to use our phones, as service is better there, but mostly we are doing nothing. And yet we still seem to be busy. How is that?

We are working on some of our neighbors to get solar panels and have some interest now that we have a demo up and running, but it is hard to get these non-conservation minded, oil rich resource Texans to think about it, and also hard to compete with the cheap Chinese imports that you can get on ebay. We hope to find more willing folks when more snowbirds arrive.

It is time for us to do our two days out of the park every 14 days, so we decide to head east and see some more of the coast. We feel like Padre island is our 'home base' and will be back for more soon.