Cruising. When did Doug start wearing suspenders?
That's Doug . . . racing ahead. I have been working on getting
him to slow down. Until this afternoon I led, and he followed. But this is
what happens when he leads. We need more work on this.
Day Three. All is well. Overnight in San Antonio, Texas.
We got a mid-morning start in Beaumont, following I-10 most of the way to San Antonio. We had one short uneventful and unproductive excursion off the interstate, but we were quickly back on I-10.
Houston is between Beaumont and San Antonio. Any highway travel through Houston is challenging, with five and six-lane traffic, going in the same direction, and too many people that drive like they should have left thirty minutes earlier....and now they are late. The posted speed limit on most of I-10, in Texas, is 75 miles per hour. Through Houston the posted limit was/is 60 miles per hour. Since I was in the lead as we rode through Houston I tried to keep our speed between 60-65 miles per hour. Anything less is inviting being run over by those late folks I mentioned.
As a personal observation, from today, and from other trips to Houston, I advance that many drivers in Texas have a preference for trucks, and often the bigger the better. They prefer F-250's, F-350's (Ford designations) or the equivalency in other brands. And, it would appear that too often the bigger the truck the faster they want to travel. This may not be true. But, it appears that way to me. Maybe there is a study on this somewhere.
Bottom line. We made it through Houston unscathed.
On our travels today we saw temperatures in the low 90's. Rain from the mid-day pop up thunderstorms continued. We were in and out of rain from ten miles out of Beaumont until we stopped west of Houston. During this time we wore rain gear. Wearing a rain suit in the Texas heat is hot. But, we were dry, except for the sweating.
I-10 was/is in a good state of repair over the sections we travelled today. There were some areas of construction, but there were no delays.
Another observation, this one from today. If the traffic of today is any indication, the Texas economy is booming. In addition to the personal truck preferences as noted above, there was an abundance of tractor-trailers, many of which had flatbed trailers with machinery of all types, and all travelling at unbelievable speeds in heavy traffic.
San Antonio is on the edge of Texas Hill Country, which is distinctive for the Texas Live Oak trees and other vegetation growing on a thin topsoil and limestone and granite rocks. Typically the area is very dry. Although it is not unusual to see areas of dark green with a concentration of trees and grass. It is a beautiful country.
Another good day.
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