Yesterday we drove around Beaumont, Texas - a clean little town, but appears to be totally deserted. We went to find the Post Office to mail our Christmas parcels, it is located in the downtown area, you could have shot a cannon down any of the streets and not hit a soul. Many of the buildings are vacant, however, it is very well kept which is totally surprising as usually deserted places gather derelicts.
We are staying in the Gulf Coast RV Park at the west end of Beaumont, a very nice park and if even offers free breakfasts every day from 7 - 9. What a nice touch! They even have bicycles for their guests to borrow and it is a Passport America besides.
I can't believe there is no recycling here - one place we stayed at least collected bottles and cans but no cardboard or plastic - Every place we stayed all the way to Arizona have no recycling. Unbelievable. However, there are more gun shops and pawn shops than grocery stores.
Lots of concrete roads and cheap gas at least along Hiway 10 - $2.98 - $3.25 a gallon.
We left at 8:00 this AM after breakfast. Fist big town was Houston which is not very appealing as you approach it, all you can see is oil refineries and cranes. There are 5 lanes of traffic going in and around Houston as well as 1 exit lane so 6 lanes of steady traffic, sure glad we don't live here. I got a feeling of claustrophobia sitting in the passenger seat, I am glad I am not driving.
We stayed in San Antonio for 2 nights, parked beside a couple from Nanaimo.
Sunday we toured the Alamo and did the River walk, when we had enough we went home and had Happy Hour with the neighbours.
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| The above 2 were taken on the River walk |
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| These are all that is left of the Alamo |
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| I thought this was just about the ugliest Christmas Tree I had ever seen taken outside the Alamo |
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