Bob and I had a brief farewell meeting with our St. Petersburg homeowner to catch up on his travels and talk about our love of St. Pete, his condo, and the sweet Lulu. It was definitely a memorable sit. The great weather didn’t hurt and the lack of hurricanes at the end of the hurricane season was a blessing as well.
We left for a “short” four hour drive to start heading towards Austin, Texas, and our next four housesits. We realized too late that we were getting into post Thanksgiving traffic, so the four hour drive took a bit over 5.5. The GPS arrival estimate seemed to get later every time we looked at it. However, other than a slow pace, the weather was good, and we didn’t have any other travel issues. We did, however, arrive to find our hotel’s elevator was broken, so we had a few trips up a couple flights of stairs with what at the time seemed like a lot of stuff (3 suitcases, food bag, and a dirty clothes bag). We travel with more when we go by car as we have all of our worldly possessions with us (mostly some clothes for different seasons that we pick and choose from when we fly).
Monday we left Florida and the Eastern Time Zone to drive through Alabama, Mississippi, and part of Louisiana. We hit a small amount of rain, but the drive was easy in terms of traffic flow. We spent the night in Baton Rouge.
The route wasn’t that scenic, but I need to take photos every once in a while to help pass the time. As you’ll see, I focus on bridges and bodies of water and state lines.
on our (mostly) I-10 route
of the Lynryd Skynyrd song?
from Spanish Fort, Alabama.
Fun fact. I went to school with a girl named Kris Sippy.
Her mother was Mrs. Sippy (which sounds like the state).
That amused us in middle school.
Tuesday, we had a 6.5 hour drive to Austin, Texas, at least 3 of which was in Texas and much of that seemed to be spent getting through Houston.
We’re grateful for no car troubles along the way and the ability to catch up with friends. We’re sitting for a friend now, who left early this morning to fly to Central Florida (small world) for a family wedding. We were able to catch up with her yesterday and meet Sammy or Cowboy Sammy soon to be just Cowboy.
who she wants to rename Cowboy,
so right now it’s Cowboy Sammy.
There likely won’t be a lot of blogs while we’re in Austin as we focus on catching up with friends rather than sight seeing.
Peckish Travels 