It all started at 3:45 a.m. (CDT). Yep. Unc banged on my door and said "we gotta hit it..storm's a'coming and we need to get ahead of it." So our 6 am departured became a 4:12 a.m. departure. Thank goodness we had packed 90% of the trunk and car the evening before.
Unc drove the first 2.5 hours (in the dark, of course) and then I took over while it was still dark, about 45 miles west of Houston. Boy were the next 2 hours fun! Rush-hour traffic, tremedous downpurs, lightning flashes, and Daisy trying to get in the front and sit on our laps. But we made it, and soon left the rain and storms behind us.
Shortly after we got into Louisiana, we left the Interstate and drove through a lot of southern Louisiana. Really interesting area--lots of sugar cane fields. Very little traffic. We got into New Orleans about 4:15--so a 12-hour day but most of it nice. It'll be early to bed tonight!
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