Driving through Texas

We had a very long drive from New Orleans, through the beautiful swamps in Louisiana and into Texas. It was an inspiring and fascinating landscape... poor Ivan who has to drive all the time couldn't look around as much as I, but I think we both enjoyed it a lot.

We figured we had probably entered Texas, when oil refineries started appearing everywhere around us.

The smell of it where in the air most of the time, now more than ever the smell of money. We drove far into the evening. Allthough signs became harder to read, it was a very pleasant time to be on the road. Less traffic and less of the crushing heat that bakes our brains during the day. And the refineries and highway bridges looked quite fantastic in the failing light.

When we finally parked for the night it had been pitch-dark for a long time. We dragged our bags into the LaQuintas Inn or something like that, just outside of Houston and collapsed into yet another pair of beds in a nondescript hotel.