Today we traveled from El Paso to San Antonio. It was a very boring drive through the Edwards Plateau along I10. The standard joke about Saskatchewan is that your dog could run away and it would take 3 days before it was out of your view. Well the same joke could apply here. It is totally flat with no tall vegetation to break the view. You can see windmills on the horizon as clear as if they were in the next field. On the west you could see the Guadalupe mountains, so there was some variety.
There is no population along I10 from El Paso until you reach San Antonio. It seems at times that I10 is your own private race track, because there are periods where you can go 10 minutes without seeing another car.
The hotel in San Antonio, where we are staying, is host to many evacuees from Houston because of hurricane Ike. We meet two families and we both admired the way they are handling this horrible situation. One gentleman who has 3 young boys, including one who has severe medical difficulties, is treating it as a vacation while his work is look for a new furnished home for him and his family. His two older boy's major concern is that they are going to miss playing in their school's next football game. We also meet two teenage girls who lived in Beaumont. Their homes had received damaged from flooding but they were taking it in stride and were enjoying the days off from school. They thought they might be displaced for up to 30 days.
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