This is my second attempt to write about today’s ride on the “Oakhurst – Cumberland – Valley Ranch” route. WordPress decided to burp after I finished writing the first time and all of my words vanished.

I rode north with 80 degree weather under a mostly cloudy sky. The wind was friendly up to the 25 mile point when I turned south on the US59 service road. When I stopped at the Shell station at Cumberland Crossing I took these weather screen shots.

Normally I only ride through the Shell station to get back on east bound FM1314 but today I stopped for a 20 minute or so break. They have $.99 fountain drinks (lowest price on FM1314 and Porter). I ate 2 whole wheat fruit bars as I rested. A glass company was at the station looking at a wind with two large round holes in it. Not sure what caused the holes but there was plenty of glass on the sidewalk below the window. I rode southeast on FM1314 back to Porter. When I got to Valley Ranch Parkway I went left on the route I normally take through Valley Ranch back to US59. Today when I got to Olympic Creek Drive I went straight to explore the Grand Parkway construction. Before I turned around at the overpass but today I continued under to see where it went. The road wound passed some construction sites. One is the new Kroger store but I don’t know about the others. I rode south of the huge New Caney ISD stadium and the gigantic score board. The road ended up at the US59 south bound service road north of the Grand Parkway. In the future this will be a good route when I go north of New Caney. When I turned south onto the service road the strong SSW wind slammed me. When I got home I looked at the airport weather to see 10 mph with 25 mph gusts. I labored on the service road until I reached Northpark Drive where I turned north and then east to get back into Kingwood.

I got home at 3:38 having begun the ride at 12:45. The temperature wasn’t different from Cumberland. tomorrow (Friday) it could get above 80 degrees. Not very often does get this warm in December but I like it.

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