LOST are a wonderful bunch of people and welcomed a couple of outsiders warmly (I suppose that made Jared and I The Others). There were a good dozen people there driving mainly Elises, with a Seven and a couple of Esprits too.
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They had their meeting and we convoyed over to a British pub for lunch. The drive was quite fun. Most of the time I was following the V8 Esprit which sounded phenomenal. I captured a ChaseCam video of it, but am still scuppered by the faulty CF reader so how it turned out will be a mystery until I get a new one. I am praying that the card itself hasn't gone bad as I have taken a lot of video so far that remains stranded on it.
The food was good and the company even better: "Everybody say warranty"
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As we were leaving someone noticed that Jared had a sizable piece of metal sticking out of his rear left tyre. We had to make a stop at a repair shop and after the usual lecturing on how to correctly jack up the Elise they removed the offending item. Thankfully it hadn't punctured the tyre and we were soon on our way.
The LOST crew had given us some good tips on how best to cross Texas, including one suggestion that we should 'drive to Houston airport and catch a flight to New Mexico'. Reassuring stuff indeed for the days ahead, but we also managed to collect some terrestrial tips and updated the route once more. Today's plan was shortened to a relatively short drive to San Antonio where we would stay tonight.
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The weather was cooler today; a welcome change from the hot and muggy last few days. Storms were threatening in Houston but towards San Antonio it was really pleasant. We arrived in the city in the tourist section which is a really nice area. It's refreshing to see a US city geared towards pedestrians. We visited the Alamo:
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It reminded me of the joke the late, great Brian Glover told in An American Werewolf in London:
There was this aeroplane over the Atlantic on its way to New York, and it was full of men from the United Nations. So halfway over the ocean the engines run low on petrol, so they have to lighten the plane. So they heave out all the baggage, but it's still too heavy. So they chuck out all the seats, but it's still too heavy. Finally, this Frog, he steps up, shouts "Vive la France", and leaps out. Then an Englishman, he steps up, shouts "God save the Queen", and he leaps out. But the plane is still too heavy. So the Yank delegate, from Texas, he steps up, shouts: "Remember the Alamo", and chucks out the Mexican.
Hotels in the city were pretty expensive apparently due to a boxing fight, so we traveled north for a while past the airport and found a really nice, quiet place for a more reasonable price. As we were arriving at the hotel we finally saw our first other Elise driving around. It only took almost 3000 miles, 9 days and 13 states!
We couldn't pass on a good old Texan meal. I almost made it through an enormous chicken fried steak and some nice large margaritas (I made it through the drinks, just not quite the food).
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More Texas to come tomorrow...
12 comments:
Doug, Glad that you are changing the route as you go to make it more interesting. If I were you, I'd skip Northern TX. There is nothing there (Been to Amarillo). Instead, go West earlier, head towards Roswell, NM (Now that is a stop you don't want to miss, maybe you'll scare some tourists into thinking your elise is a spaceship!!.) From there, keep going west and you'll hit white sands!!! That is something worth seeing if you are that close. The sand IS actually white! I see you are going via Flagstaff in AZ. This is good. It is very nice there. But also take the side trip south to Sedona (Red Canyon). Some amazing scenery there. Also, I hope you are not planning on skipping the Grand Canyon!!! You must go there on the way to Las Vegas (or take a day trip there from Las Vegas). jedderzeds
Hehe LOST yesss..but since they were already there, you two seemed to fall from the sky..I think THEY are The Others! hehee Did you ask the people at the Alamo where the basement is? "The stars at night, they shine so bright-clap clap clap..deep in the heart of Texas!" Peewee Herman movie. :)
love,
~Priya
Dumb thing posted my comment 5 times..sorry :)
Awww honey, There IS no Dana, only Zeuhl! I love it! On your journey page you should add a link to the photo album so people remember to look at all the pictures- even I forgot.
xoxoox,
~Priya
That meal looks disgusting
Rodders
Jedrzej thanks for advice - we will see where we end up today and plan the NM bit.
Priya - I have a link to the album in the "Essential Links" bit on the right, but I will mention it more in the blog entries.
Rodders - it absolutely looked disgusting, but was really tasty.
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