2 Days and Still Rolling!

Sorry I was not able to post anything yesterday, but more on that later.

We left Spicewood about 9:00 Saturday Morning. Had to stop in at Vee Dub so Darryl could leave some last min instructions. Then we stopped in Bastrop at the Texas Grill and had breakfast about 10:40. They have great omelets. Left there and continued on 71 to El Campo. A little ways out of there we headed east towards Angleton. Stopped in at Goe Harly Davidson and Darryl got a cool T-Shirt. I could not get anything because it seems that in Angleton all Harley chicks are either Small, X Small or 1, 2 or 3 X Large. No Medium or Large Women for Angleton!!

We got to Galveston Island about 4:00. Texted the boys to see where they were and they were all at Eric's in Houston. They headed our way and we headed to the hotel to check in. Well that is when things got interesting. It seems this weekend was some big beach party weekend for rapper gangsta wannabes and hooker looking chicks. There were thousands of them all lined up on both sides of the sea wall just sitting/standing in/by their tricked out piece of crap cars staring across the road at each other. Lined up in the middle turn lane was every cop or law enforcement official in Galveston County. It was not a real comfortable feeling riding through them to the Hotel. Which also turned out to be a piece of crap. We stayed at the Flagship, which is the hotel that is out over the ocean. In the words of another one of the guests, "Bet this place really rocked back when Elvis was alive." Unfortunately, they have done little to upgrade or even maintain it since them. So that also means there was no way for me to update the blog.

After checking in, we met the boys back on the other end of the island, riding back through the freak show again, at Nate's West End Steak and Seafood. While I really enjoyed the dinner with the boys and Katy, the place itself was over priced for the quality of food you got.

Then we all went down to the 61st Street Pier and everyone but me fished for a while. Katy caught the first fish and I think stayed in the lead for the night. Darryl also caught quite a few and some were even keeper size so we gave them away to some other fishers on the pier. DJ and James had a little bit of trouble catching any, but they caught a few. All in all I think we just all enjoyed the time together. Darryl and I left around 11:30 and headed back to the hotel. The boys stayed for a while and then I am not sure what they did.

Once again the ride back was scary, even more so this time as a few of them decided to notice us and yell a few comments to us. But we made it back to the room and then the real partying started. Not us, them. It sounded like about half of them had rooms on our same floor and they were running up and down the hallways yelling at each other until about 4:30 in the morning when they had to call an ambulance for one girl for some reason. Then things quieted down for a while. Then about 8:00 they started feeding the sea gulls right above our room and that was the end of the sleeping. We ended the first days trip with exactly 6500 miles showing on the bike.

Sunday after we got up, we ate some of their continental breakfast and finally left Hotel Hell about 10:20. Road the ferry out of Galveston and got into Louisiana about 12:00. Had to cross a couple of BIG ASS bridges to do so and I was not thrilled with that. Gas in Johnson Bayou was 3.95 a gallon. The highest we have seen on the trip so far. Also talked to our first Cajuns there and I have to say, all of the Louisianans I have talked to so far make me ashamed of my fellow Texans. We are supposed to be so friendly in Texas, but these guys have been by far the friendliest people I have met so far. Very talkative and enjoyable to listen to.

I saw our first alligator somewhere about 2:30 this afternoon. I was so excited and could not understand why Darryl would not turn back around to go see it. It was one of the things he was most looking forward to about this trip. Saw another, bigger one about 30 mins later and again he would not turn around. What was going on????? Then we stopped for gas in Grand Chenier and he forgot to fasten his helmet back. He pulled over and stopped the bike by one of the many bayou bogs/ponds/gullys that were all along the road and we heard a big splash. Low and behold it was about a 4 foot gator that was swimming away from us. For a short distance. Then it decided to swim back towards us. We quickly got back on the bike and then saw another one out in the water by the first one. Darryl thought it was "Awesome!". I told him, see I told you I was seeing them. He tells me he did not believe me. Thought I was just seeing logs or something!!!!!!!!!

We made it to New Iberia about 5:00 and stopped here for the night. It seems like a very friendly nice town although everything is closed on Sundays and we could not try any local food tonight, so it was Chili's for dinner. I think that is it for the night. Ending mileage today is 6741. Check out the lists I am making for the trip. Things we saw and Things we smelled. Bike riding makes all senses seem more in depth, and sometimes as in the first list, that is good and sometimes, as in the second list, that is bad. OK, well as it turns out, this computer has some funky settings and will not let me get to where I need to so I can add a list. MAYBE.......Eric can add the list titles and then it will let me edit them......... Have to check back later. Also, I will be adding a slide show of the cool pics we are taking when we get back home.