Last Day in San Antonio and Arrival in Houston

Thursday, February 11, 2010

It started raining at about midnight last night and continued all night and into this morning.  The temperature has hovered in the low 50’s Fahrenheit or about 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, so we are not getting any snow.  Although in Dallas they have received 12” of snow, we were lucky that we did escape from Dallas a couple of weeks ago.  Apparently this snow is moving into the southern States of Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama.  We heard on the news that the only state that has not received some snow this winter is Hawaii.  It did stop raining long enough that we were able to get to the nearby Wal-Mart Supercentre to do some grocery shopping before we head down to Houston, tomorrow.

Friday, February, 12, 2010

It had just started to clear a little bit in the west and we hitched up and headed in the opposite direction.  As we travelled east on Interstate I-10 we didn’t quite catch up to the rain but it became more overcast and the temperature didn’t rise above 6 degrees Celsius. Not exactly what we bargained for when we set out one month ago.   

The drive through Houston was a bit un-nerving as the roads are not nearly as good as in the Dallas freeways and seem to be more congested.  They still drive at least 10 mph over the posted speed limit of 60 mph.  We saw a Nissan Altima almost spin out at one of the exits.  “There but for the grace of God, go I.”   I’ll bet that guy had to stop at a restroom to clean-up!  We luckily made it safely .to our new campsite between Houston and Galveston at the Bay Colony RV Resort in Dickinson, TX.