Miami to Texas = Long, Long Drive

So I rented a car and planned to drive over to Houston, Texas to visit some friends. I got up early, went to take a shower, only to find no water in the hotel. I quickly found out the problem when I went to the lobby and found several construction workers trying to seal off the water main they had sliced in half while digging up the street. So, no shower I guess. After I was late picking up the car, I finally set out from Miami around 11 a.m., enroute to Texas.

I made my way up the east coast, and north of Jupiter, I hooked it westbound onto the Florida turnpike, passing through Orlando, and hooking up with Interstate 10 on the northern end of Florida. I made it all the way to Pensacola before I decided to call it a night, staying there.

The next morning, I set out at 8 am, and passed through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana before hitting Texas. It was nice to have 2-3 lanes the whole way, without much of a slowdown, but I was amazed at the insanity of the amount of traffic on the road. Bumper to bumper, side to side, it was a fight the whole way. It's a nice drive, following the coast mostly, and you are surrounded by trees the whole way, but not a drive I want to make too often.

Around 4 pm, I made it into Houston, and then up to Spring, TX, where I am now, staying with friends. the plan is to hit the road once again tomorrow, heading up to Dallas to visit some more people, then the long, arduous drive back to Miami, where I plan to spend a few days before flying to New York.