Day 35 - Across the Swamps to Beaumont TxOct 3, 2007
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Mississippi swamp from elevated roadway
Tree tops from Alabama causeway
Welcome to Texas
| Downhill into Texas and dry, I hit the WiFi wall again, here in Beaumont...powerful signal, but some quirck in my Vista software blocks access to the internet. I spent an hour turning this button off and turning that button on, with no success, so you are receiving this a day late, again. Shortly after sunrise, 7 am CENTRAL TIME, I skipped out of Mobile driving west towards Texas before the rain arrived. I slid at this beautiful, but treeless, campground at 3:30, an hour later than expected because of 40 miles of road construction in the first 50 Texas miles from Louisiana. Travel in this country often is on elevated highways. For instance, I-10 was a four-lane viaduct for at least 5 miles going into Mobile with the end prize the USS Alabama moored on the edge of the city; I skipped it, this soldier had seen enough ships. Traveling further west today, look at the pictures above...the first is between Mobile and Biloxi, a huge grassland that has to be at least 50 square miles. The next long section was over trees, north of New Orleans and east of Baton Rouge. The topper, though, was 18 miles of raised roadway the last 20 miles before Lafayette Louisiana; the miles are real, I asked two fella's at the next table over lunch. I took the bike off the rack again tonight to peddle my buns to dinner...a truck stop about a mile down the road. Met a nice driver and we helped each other pass the time as he was waiting for the Houston traffic to die down and I was agonizing over no WiFi. That makes 3 dinners this trip, pretty neat. I'll be sending this from Paul & Erin's tomorrow, so I'll bring you up-to-date on the drive up sharing the road with these Texans. Oooooohhhhh, I just missed the rain!!!! Just saw on the news that Charleston, Savannah and Tybee Island received TWO INCHS of rain today. 20% chance here in Beaumont tomorrow and may have some in Killeen this weekend. We'll see. .. I've really been lucky this whole trip. Thank you Portlanders' for keeping all the rain in the NW and letting me have sunshine Bob |
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