day 17

Lafayette, Louisiana to Ozona, Texas
644 miles, all of it freeway. It is sort of discouraging to spend most of a day in a state at freeway speeds and still only be at mile post 385. The Texas welcome center was a very nice one. It was at Blue Elbow swamp and there was a walkway built out over the swamp that you could use to see more or the swamp. As we went into the area, there was a road kill Armadillo, the only one that we have seen. On the road we were finally able to go 75 miles an hour legally. Houston and San Antonio were both interesting to get through, we almost had to come to a complete stop in Houston because of a car breakdown and then the wrecker that picked it up was being towed by a pickup to get it off of the freeway. In San Antonio, one interchange would have been very easy to get off on the wrong freeway. East Texas was hills, swamp, and trees. The hill country west of San Antonio was interesting and fun to watch go by, closer to our destination we then got into cattle country with scrub oaks and grass. It was easy to imagine collecting cattle in that area and chasing rustlers and Indians amongst all of the trees. Ozuna is in oil and cattle country. The first well was drilled there in 1924 and is still in production. We ate supper at a small restaurant there and they had KC steak on the menu. We couldn't pass that up. The motel was roomy with good beds and we both got a good nights sleep.