Texas
All of Friday morning was spent driving across the western half of Texas to San Antonio. It takes a looooooooong time to drive across Texas! When we finally got there, we grabbed a quick lunch on the Riverwalk and stopped to visit the Alamo.

Much smaller that you might think it would be. After that we took a quick trip south over to our friend Wayne's house there in San Antonio. We got there at Mile 1674 around 2:30 in the afternoon. Wayne was kind enough to let us rest up, get a couple of showers and recharge our batteries (literally!) at his house here. We hadn't had a chance to recharge anything since we had been on the road. So the laptop, digital camera, cell phones and DVD player were all running quite low on power. Our only regret was that Wayne wasn't around at the time. He left a key for us to let ourselves in, but we never got to see him.

Got back on the road and at Wayne's suggestion, we took a nice early evening drive off the Interstate up to Austin via Highways 281 and 290. A very nice city that is said to own the nation's largest state capitol building.

We also took a cruise down the famous 6th Street to soak in the college town atmosphere of the University of Texas.

From there we continued east along Highway 71 and stopped for dinner at a restaurant called the Roadhouse in the town of Bastrop. They boast having hamburgers voted the best of '03, '04 and '05 according to the t-shirts they wore. Of course, we haven't been to a restaurant yet that didn't claim to have something voted the best. And you never know exactly who did the voting. At least this place gave years for when the voting took place so at least you know it wasn't decades ago. So we had the deep-fried cod. There was man playing some live blues/country/rock. He did pretty well with the Johnny Cash stuff.

Continuing on 71, we eventually met back up with I-10 leading us to Houston. We pulled over at mile 1970 in Pasadena, a suburb of Houston, to spend the night at a Wal-Mart parking lot again. The weather is starting to turn ugly. Very hot and humid. Welcome to the deep South!