April 26, 2011
Nights 25-26, – Breaux Bridge, LA
After a rather long and windy 8 hrs driving day we have arrived in Breaux Bridge, LA and are staying at a really nice campground called Poche’s Fish ‘n Camp. We’ll be here two nights. It is really beautiful. Breaux Bridge is 10 mi east of Lafayette, LA and about 60 miles west of New Orleans. Tonight we are going to a local place and specializes in crawfish etouffe’. Tomorrow we plan to visit Vermillionville, an historic working Cajun/Acadiana village/museum, and go to Avery Island to see the Tabasco plan and gardens.
Nights 23 and 24 – Austin, TX
The last two days we were in Austin, TX staying at McKinney Falls state park which was wonderful. Very secluded and lots of trees. Kind of hot and humid in Austin, but we have the AC, so no worries. We drove down to San Antonio and visited The Alamo and the San Antonio riverwalk. We were suprised to find that The Alamo is right in the middle of downtown San Antonio, and it is celebrating it’s 175th anniversary of the battle. Why they had the battle in a big city and not out in the country is beyond me. J
Nights 21-22 – Fort Stockton, TX (Carlsbad Caverns)
We were unfortunate enough to pick the worse campground ever invented. Now, when we rate campgrounds, we’ll know what a “1” is. A filthy gravel lot with outlets on power poles. To be fair, they had free WIFI which sort of worked and decent showers, and we really weren’t there much anyway. We spent day 23 visiting Carlsbad Caverns, which were awesomely cool.
We found west Texas to be not so attractive. We should give it back to Mexico. East Texas was pretty nice.
Trip factoids: We’ve driven about 3500 miles so far, and spent double for repairs what we have for gas.
Repairs: We were able to find new bike tires in Austin and put them on my and Deb’s bikes, plus we bought another spare. The water pump is cycling too much which means the internal check valve is starting to leak. So we stopped at a camping world near Houston and bought a pump head. I’ll install it sometime later – no biggie.
Carlsbad Caverns
San Antonio Riverwalk
Hey guys...watch the weather...north of you is flash flooding, thunderstorms and tornados. Pickup on of those really cool Tabasco ties...you will have so many uses for it! And when in Rome...eat local food!
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