Update 3/17
Day #25
Today: Ballinger, TX, to Brownwood, TX (65 miles)
Total miles: 1327
Tomorrow (plan): Hico, TX
We ate breakfast at the restaurant adjacent to the hotel, and after breakfast we were interviewed in the restaurant by a reporter from the local newspaper. Jeanette had contacted the reporter and set up the interview. We then departed the hotel and headed for the local Wal-Mart to buy a spare tire. We were in luck: they had a 27-inch tire. It was almost noon when we departed Ballinger. Just about everything was the same as yesterday: the temperature, the wind, and the hills. It seemed that the vegetation was beginning to change. It was not strictly mesquite bushes, as we had seen farther west; there was some scrub cedar and other vegetation. After stopping in mid-afternoon for some delicious Texas barbeque in the little town of Valera, we arrived in Brownwood just before sunset at about 7:30 PM. 
We found a motel on the east side of town, located across the street from a small restaurant where we ate, still dressed in our cycling clothes. The sight of a man in tight shorts seems to evoke a few stares from the folks who are off the beaten cycling paths. In fact, yesterday in the grocery store in Ballinger, while standing in the check-out line behind a very young (6-8 yr-old) girl, I was subjected to her observation, "Now that's embarrassing!" That was one of the few times I was at a loss for words.