We all got up and by the time we packed up, hitched the car and said our “Good-byes” it was about 9:30 before we got on the road. Just outside of Kemah we drove over a really unusual bridge called the Fred Hartman Bridge that crosses the Buffalo Bayou section of the Galveston Bay. We drove north on Texas state highway 146 until we got to Interstate 10 and then continued east to Lafayette, Louisiana. From there we took the 90E to LA state highway 14 to Avery Island, LA to go on a tour of the Tabasco Factory. Since we stayed longer than planned in Fort Worth and Galveston we were there on a weekend and so didn’t get to see the actual bottling process. We left there and got a little rain, hard a times but of short duration. We arrived in Baton Rouge around 5:30 and got a place for the night. Bill worked on the motor home cleaning the bugs off the front and rubbing out the scratches from our encounter with the tree in Dublin, TX. We are learning quite a bit about some of the oddities of the south. For example, today we learned about love bugs. The sound of these pairs of mating insects hitting our windshield sounded like rain and our windshield was covered in black splotches. We also noticed that the “road kill” along the highway is not the usual cats, dogs, or snakes we see at home. Today we saw opossum, armadillos, and alligators that had suffered a fatal encounter with a vehicle along the road. Tomorrow we will travel north through Natchez, MS and go the Vicksburg National Military Park.
Sat. 8/25/07 ~ Love Bugs & Road Kill
We all got up and by the time we packed up, hitched the car and said our “Good-byes” it was about 9:30 before we got on the road. Just outside of Kemah we drove over a really unusual bridge called the Fred Hartman Bridge that crosses the Buffalo Bayou section of the Galveston Bay. We drove north on Texas state highway 146 until we got to Interstate 10 and then continued east to Lafayette, Louisiana. From there we took the 90E to LA state highway 14 to Avery Island, LA to go on a tour of the Tabasco Factory. Since we stayed longer than planned in Fort Worth and Galveston we were there on a weekend and so didn’t get to see the actual bottling process. We left there and got a little rain, hard a times but of short duration. We arrived in Baton Rouge around 5:30 and got a place for the night. Bill worked on the motor home cleaning the bugs off the front and rubbing out the scratches from our encounter with the tree in Dublin, TX. We are learning quite a bit about some of the oddities of the south. For example, today we learned about love bugs. The sound of these pairs of mating insects hitting our windshield sounded like rain and our windshield was covered in black splotches. We also noticed that the “road kill” along the highway is not the usual cats, dogs, or snakes we see at home. Today we saw opossum, armadillos, and alligators that had suffered a fatal encounter with a vehicle along the road. Tomorrow we will travel north through Natchez, MS and go the Vicksburg National Military Park.
