24 January ‘09 Saturday
Bob and Debbie were just pulling out of the campground and heading west as we were pulling out and heading east. Our route will take us east on Hwy 35, through Port Lavaca, Palacios, up to Angleton and then dropping down to Freeport. We really wanted to by-pass Houston, so that’s why we headed south towards the coast. Once there, we again headed east to Galveston. I’m sure you will remember that just last year Hurricane Ike hurled its way through here, but thank God the refineries faired well.
Bob and Debbie were just pulling out of the campground and heading west as we were pulling out and heading east. Our route will take us east on Hwy 35, through Port Lavaca, Palacios, up to Angleton and then dropping down to Freeport. We really wanted to by-pass Houston, so that’s why we headed south towards the coast. Once there, we again headed east to Galveston. I’m sure you will remember that just last year Hurricane Ike hurled its way through here, but thank God the refineries faired well.
It may not have been the hurricane that had the high number, but it was very destructive. We covered miles on miles of total destruction and every half mile along the road,
we came across piles of wood, metal, paper, and all kinds of different property just waiting for the next truck to come by and haul it away to the “dumping place”…what a mess, what a tragedy, what a waste, that’s nature at its worse.
There wasn’t any reason to stop to “see the sites” as the sites were not as inspiring when you see something like this, so we just kept on…at the end of Galveston Island we caught another “free ferry”.
This one would take us across to Port Bolivar and up to Port Arthur were we will spend another Wal-Mart night.