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Aug 23 – TX

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Day 22 – Some more driving in Texas, taking highway 287 north, it was a scenic drive. The green rolling hills turned into more flat plains with cacti and rock outcroppings, and always a distant view of the horizon. At night as we made our way further north it turned into more of a cattle country, the smell was the main give away.

To our surprise as we drove through one small town a truck pulled up beside us at a stoplight and had a quick conversation with Jason about the bike on the back of our car and the gas mileage. You can never think people are not friendly here – how could you when there are signs stating their slogan mile after mile “Drive Friendly”. Though, not all the drivers drive very friendly – some tended to like to get right up on your bumper going 80 mile an hour when the speed limit is 70 until you finally have a chance to get out of their way. In a VW Golf, a big truck or SUV (popular choices of vehicles here) it can be quiet intimidation knowing if I had to stop quickly their car is going to bash right up to my steering wheel.

Drive Friendly, the Texas way! 🙂

Texas is green too… very beautiful country side.

Aug 22 – TX

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Day 21 – Austin is a very nice city. We are staying with our friend Tess, who is currently taking her first big exam right now to continue in the economic phd program at U of T. We have just enjoyed lying around a comfy house washing all of our belongings – clothes, the car, and ourselves. All I can say of Austin right now is that the neighborhood north of the campus has a lot of well kept homes and a lot of trees and gardens, some more well kept than others. And Jason is very happy to be out of the humid heat of the east and into the more dry heat of the west.

We celebrated Tess’s ½ mark on her test taking with some cool party hats and cake. Than, she took her first night off in the past month of studying and we went out for a drink and dinner to continue celebrating. Tomorrow she has to start studying again for her second and last big exam on Friday. GOOD LUCK TESS!!!!!!

Aug 21 – TX

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Day 20 - We woke up with a dead battery this morning. The night was very warm, even with the windows cracked down, and so we were turning on the car vents for some air circulation. The ... [Continue reading this entry]

Aug 20 – LA/TX

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Day 19 – We took route 90 (future interstate 49) down along the southern part of Louisiana, the Cajun area. Stopping outside of Houma at Bayou Black Airboat Swamp Tours (www.bayoublackairboattours.com 504.628.2508) for a tour of the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Aug 19 – AL/LA

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Day 18 - Today we drove through Mobile, Al and followed Interstate 10 west through Mississippi to Louisiana. Mississippi was only a drive through state for us at the moment with tons of road signs for Casinos and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Aug 18 – FL/AL

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Day 17 - Heading west and aiming for Alabama, so that we can make to Austin, Tx in the next few days. We went through Panama City and continued along to the coast. While driving along the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Aug 17 – FL

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Day 16 – On our way towards Tallahassee we made a side trip to Crystal River to see what was going on with the manatees in that area and ended up at a public beach. So, of course, ... [Continue reading this entry]