{"id":40468,"date":"2018-04-11T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T04:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=40468"},"modified":"2018-04-11T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T04:34:17","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-april-11th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-april-11th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest April 11th 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Border Bike Trip, Day 26: The Hot and Perilous Clime<\/a><\/h2>\n

Grant Wishard | www.weeklystandard.com<\/h3>\n


\nI got my rear derailleur replaced by a mechanic in Del Rio (locally pronounced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Del Ree-uh\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) and finally bought new tubes. My plan was to leave the highway behind and take Old Mines road to Laredo, a 114-mile gravel stretch that cuts right along the Rio Grande, and I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to take any mechanical chances.<\/p>\n

Later that day I received an email from Keith Bowden, the guy who canoed the entire Rio Grande river several years back and who I recently met by chance in the small town of …<\/p>\n

Border Bike Trip, Day 27: Laredo<\/a><\/h2>\n

Grant Wishard | www.weeklystandard.com<\/h3>\n


\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in America, but it feels like Mexico. Laredo is unique among border towns because it has always had a majority Latino population. Biking into the city you pass rows and rows and rows of warehouses, distribution centers, and yards full of semi-truck trailers before you hit this horrible commercial strip crammed full of every road-side corporate brand imaginable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMcDonald’s, Starbucks, Burger King, Walmart, IHOP, Applebee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u201don and on, mile after mile.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an awful stretch of road to confront as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cyclist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as we like to call ourselves in the …<\/p>\n

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