Tuesday 31/05/05

68 miles to the town of Austin today, about 45 of which was fairly flat, however there was one big climb with a double summit at the end which was a bit of a beast. We stopped at the lower summit at a free campground to get some water and there encountered a swarm of the most horrible little beasts I have ever seen. They look like giant mutant grasshoppers crossed with cockroaches and the kind of hop and tumble about. As we entered this place there were litterally hundreds of thousands of them all over the road. Eugh, gross! Anyway that night we stayed in the Baptist church/ RV park which was ok except for getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. HAd dinner at a small restaurant where the Brits actually outnumbered the Americans. The were two Londoner couples who arrived just after us who had been touring around from Las Vegas. We had a bit of a chat with them and listened to them trying to order. It was funny how much of a hard time they were giving the poor waiter, he just couldn't work out what they were on about. Ahh, how refreshing to here some Brits.