Our trip resumes......
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| Pelican |
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| View from Doc's Restaurant |
We drove along the Texas Tropical Trail for miles and miles. Very rich farm country where we saw fields covered with white egrets. We seemed to be alone on the 2 lane highway for a time. In Refugio, Tx we saw many large old classic southern homes, some in disrepair but many well kept. And then came the RAIN!!! A downpour off and on for miles where we could barely see the car in front of us. The scenery changes (when we can see), the trees are taller and there is more green. HOUSTON - still raining hard, gully washers, dumping for miles. Cars driving with no lights, black clouds so low they touch the ground. Then sprinkles. Now bare and dry. Stopped at a rest stop when it got so tiring before Beaumont, Tx. More rain. Stopped for gas in Orange, Tx OMG it is hot as hell and so humid it is hard to breathe. We have been on I10 for 880 miles just in Texas.
Now in Louisianna - Stay the night in Sulphur, LA. Lots of oil refineries thus the name. Rain at night. Lake Charles is beauiful, green and neat. Land is cultivated for sugar cane. We ran into more traffic here than all other parts of trip so far. I10 is a busy highway between Lake Charles and Baton Rouge.
Lake Ponchatrain Causeway is an amazing engineering feat. 24 miles of elevated highway - bridge - over the lake. There is a $3.00 toll and interestingly enough there are various turnarounds. There is also a drawbridge. The lake is huge and looks like an inland sea. It was very quiet when we went over but Katrina in 2005 sent it into New Orleans with a vengence.
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| Lake Ponchatrain Causeway |
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