Chuck and I drove from Auburn, Alabama to Beaumont, Tx and he thought he had been in Beaumont before, so I was all ready for this cute sea food restaurant on the water… and as we drove through Lake Charles, Louisiana, he said "There is where the little restaurant is, and there is the hotel!" OOPs. We have reservations 50 miles down the road in a different state! We watched the cute little restautrant go by and we drove on. Actually Beaumont isn’t anything special unless the "old town" is hidden someplace. Our hotel is on a little river… but where is old town?  Now Auburn was special – it has a real small town feeling. I am thinking of the University of Miami being a "campus" but I never got the "small town feel." I think first of all U of M being smack in the middle of very exclusive Coral Gables was an issue, and second we don’t have that all important stadium in the middle of the campus. Auburn is ALL AU… tiger paws everywhere and everyone talks sports. Two really big guys poured out of a car at an Auburn gas station wearing Tuskeegee football shirts and all I could think of is "Yes" you do play football don’t you? My gosh, what it must take to feed those tanks! Football and sports abound, but Auburn also has a beautiful Art Gallery/Museum. So….. onward into Texas. Tomorrow we head south to Port Bolivar and take a car ferry over to Galveston Island. I haven’t been there and they were wiped out two years ago by one of those hurricanes that we wished west from the Keys…. (sorry Galveston)… so we’re planning to camp there for a few days and catch some beach breezes. It’s hot today and I hope the Gulf will be cool (wish on). We planned the rest of our Texas trip when we got a bunch of materials at the welcome center … oh boy oh boy Sedona, El Paso, Fort Davis, Alpine, Big Bend, etc. I just have to get us to those places and out again and headed north to get to Denver on time to deliver art in Aspen (we have a tough life). So my dears. Have a wonderful end of the week! Hope you are dry and cool!!!
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