Tues. Nov. 15 To Rockport Texas

Join us as we travel North America in our Holiday Rambler Vacationer,

since August 2006

Another nice warm night, windows open and lots of fresh humid air. This morning we are ready to hit the road just puttering around until we leave about 8:45. We don't want to leave too early as we are just east of Houston and don't want to get caught up in rush hour. Our route today is to take a southerly by pass around Houston.

235 miles (378 kms)

We went thru Baytown over the amazing Fred Hartman Bridge suspension bridge, thru Pasadena, along 610 for a short while, then south to Texas 35 all the way thru to Rockport Texas.

the bridge

We passed many oil refineries, they appear to be all over south Texas.

oil refineries

Once again the markings on the pavement really help to keep you in the correct lane especially when there are so many choices. We had a nice drive around Houston and no heavy traffic at all. Because we can we like to plan when to travel around or thru large cities avoiding traffic congestion.

nice

Once south of Houston we had nice peaceful drive on good roads thru a few small towns and country siide, two and four lanes roads, very little traffic and barely saw any trucks at all. The speed limits were mostly 70 mph (112kph) but we could take our time, there was no traffic to block.

scenic drive

good roads

There was a short span that we travelled with very heavy rains, we could barely see and had to slow down considerably, but we just kept plugging along, passed over the bridge to Rockport, with people standing on the fishing pier, fishing in the rain.

fishing pier

At 1:30 pm we arrived Bayview resort in Rockport and while checking in our friends Rob and Pat from Ontario arrived as well. Well the rain had stopped and we got quickly set up, grabbed our chairs and a beverage, sat down in the shade, then the sun and got all caught up.

the shade

now the sun

Now with chatting, carrying on and having fun we decided that we all had a craving for Chinese Food EH!! So us Canadians hopped in the their truck and down the road to China A (must be Canadian). Such a great variety of food including sushi, steaks cooked to order, seafood, shrimp, varieties of fish, shrimp, oysters, clams, frog legs as well as all the traditional chinese plus a large desert buffet.