Day Twenty - June 25, 2000

There's not too much to say about these drive-by border crossings. Um... Florida is a neat place.

We spent some time on the beach just outside of Jacksonville, FL. Chris got sucked into a strange sport were a surfboard-like object skims over a thin film of water. It's a neat idea and Chris shows his amazement by falling off every time he tried.

Becca acted as our marine wildlife guru. She carried back about a pound of seashells, barnacles, and seaweed and stuffed them under the front seat of our car. We found a large crab too, but it wouldn't have fit and the smell was none too pleasing.

Day Twenty One - June 26, 2000

We were doing good for a while as far as weather went until we started along the Gulf of Mexico. This is why we have nothing interesting from Alabama...

...Mississippi...

...or Louisiana.

Okay, maybe Louisiana wasn't all that bad. Steve made friends with a chip company and got a complimentary box for on-the-road snacking. Apparently he is of no relation to the owner of Zapp's Chips...

...but we tried anyway. Ron, if you ever see this picture, we didn't park in your parking space.

This gives you a good idea of the muddy conditions we flopped through today. Here we are, crossing the Mississippi River again. We may be getting overly attached to our car, though.

Day Twenty Two - June 27, 2000

Back in the Lone Star State! Yeehaw!

The visitor center on the Texas Border is an interesting spectacle. Along the roadside, they've stuck a giant metal star in the ground. Chris climbed to the top of this section while Becca, our resident rock climber, complained about the hot metal.

While we were getting ready to continue our route to Houston, we came across these giant grasshoppers. They are REALLY slow and lazy and jump like bull frogs: kinda flopping around. Yeah, like tanks though.

We swung through Katy where Chris had a rendezvous with another childhood friend, Laura Dierschke. We all went on a bike ride around our old stomping grounds and crashed at a park by Chris's elementary school. The cooler pretty much saved our lives.

A Blue Bell stop at Randall's was our first break from the moist outdoors that afternoon. Isn't it wonderful how an ice cream can bring people together! Sorry, that was pretty cheesy.

Later on in the evening we all went over to the house of Manny and Carole Gonzales where we learned all about cars and Chris got to take a quick ride (about 30 feet) in Manny's hot rod.

Day Twenty Three - June 28, 2000

Today was our day to drive like crazy through central Texas. We left Katy around midday and showed up on the other side of the state in Fort Stockton in the early evening. Here, Becca rides a local tourist attraction while Chris makes himself as small as he can.

After Becca's spontaneity wore out Chris decides to race the roadrunner statue, proving once and for all who the fastest bird in Fort Stockton is (we're all nuts). Chris is the weird shadow leaping off the right side of the picture.

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