Day 3

With the overwhelming heat and humidity we opted out of camping for a low budget, sub-par inn that was no doubt at one time occupied by the hobo. But nevertheless the air conditioning worked and we were ALMOST bug free. (WARNING: Staying at hotels like this is not advised for people without dads that are 6’3” and have already had a long day on the road, keeps the rift raft out if you know what I mean) Total miles traveled yesterday: 845.3. Total to date [as of 2:24 p.m eastern time]: 1322.1 miles.
I drove through the Bayou in Louisiana which was a little creepy truth be told, thanks for the heads up Mr. Tom! Now if you’ve never seen a Bayou it’s…well it’s like in the movie The Rescuer’s with the mice, the alligators, and the girl Penny. Yeah I’m going old school or as old school as you can get as a seventeen year old. But it has trees EVERYWHERE and swampy waters with sticks and mud. Basically if you fell off the bridge we were driving you’d probably be eaten alive by some alligators or snakes. I was offered $100 to swim across but as tempting as that sounded I had to turn it down in best interest of my survival.
Go big or Go home, it’s the Texas way. We crossed the Texas border and had our first alligator encounter, feisty little devils. Along with our first ever alligator snapping turtle, didn’t even know they existed and sad to say it might of put an end to Dad’s soccer career but that’s still debatable. I got to drive through Texas into Rice University, WOOHOO!! But once again I am totally cursed; construction around every bend. Another college on the list. Hey Mr. Petteway is that better than Auburn? I mean this is my name sake? Rice, Home of the Owls, got to tour the football stadium. I have never seen grass so green before in my life. Then while trying to leave Rice Dad got in trouble with ANOTHER police officer, something about going the wrong way on a one way street but uh…more details on that later. But no police reports have been filed yet and that’s always a big plus. For more information please go to www.riceuniversity.com/policeblotter/06-16-09.html
As far as border crossing goes it’ll be a while. When we first got into Texas we shortly realized that it is 847 miles until El Paso, heck no Joe we ain’t driving that many miles. As far as road kill goes we have spotted two more dead armadillo’s (total: 3), one while leaving Louisiana and another while driving outside Houston. Another shout out goes to Nana for sponsoring lunch again today and that adventure trip “emergency” kit is totally coming in handy :)
Now we are headed to San Antonio for, well more to come…