Georgetown to Baton Rouge

Friday the 30th

A lazy morning. The kids were all tuckered out from yesterday so it was nearly 7:30 AM before we woke up. By then Bill had the coffee going and Vi was getting breakfast started. We had a nice relaxing get-up then enjoyed a wonderful breakfast of Eggs Benedict with fresh fruit and coffee - Yumm, Yummmm!!!

Eventually we had to say goodbye and get back on the road. With directions from Bill and several beautiful gifts from Vi we made it to the freeway and headed south towards I-10. It’s a nice morning, about 60 degrees and with a high overcast. Traffic is nearly non existent on the toll road so we make great time bypassing Austin to the east.

After paying one final toll we left the freeway and headed south-east on Texas 183 arriving at I-10 forty miles later. As we head towards Houston the sky continued to darken but we managed to slide through Houston with little trafficand no rain. But it started to sprinkle when we stopped for gas and a bite to eat and started coming down pretty heavy as we headed up the entrance ramp.

Once we got back on the freeway the rain came down pretty steady but it wasn’t until we crossed the Louisiana state line that it got really nasty. At times we could barely see 200 feet ahead and traffic slowed to under fifty mph. As we came to Lake Charles the rain had pretty much quit, or so we thought. But we were in for a surprise!

Nearing Lafayette the rain started to come down in buckets, then in torrents, finally there was so much rain coming down, even with the windshield wipers on “race” (really fast - heheheh), visibility was down to thirty feet or less. And it stayed that way for the next forty miles. What made it worse is that traffic was very heavy and nobody wanted to slow down below fifty mph. I’ve never seen that much water come down that fast and for so long. By the time it let up we were five miles from Baton Rouge and it was rush hour, so everything came to a slow crawl until we crossed the Mississippi and made our exit.

We pulled into another La Quinta, got our room and took the dogs for a walk. Then we took everything into the room where we found out we had a leak around the seal of the canopy door. Tina’s suitcase and travel bag were soaked. She managed to salvage a few dry items for tomorrow and draped everything else everywhere about the room to dry. Then we went to dinner and had a couple of great barbecue sandwiches - I had pulled pork and Tina had pork brisket. For desert we had a great apple cobbler a la mode with two spoons - ummmm, ummmm good!!

By the time we got back to our room it was nearly 8:00 PM so we watched TV for a while, took the kids out one last time and turned out the lights.

Distance traveled today, 445 miles. Total for the trip so far, 2,952 miles.

No photos today.