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Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - Going to Galveston
57 miles. Lake Jackson, TX to Fisherman Cove Motel, Port Bolivar, TX
We left Aunt Dorothy, Phil and Becky's house very well
rested and well fed after two much needed days off. Phil commutes to Galveston,
so was able to give us good advice on which roads to take. We were going to head
to the Gulf and head up the coast to Galveston to bypass Houston as we get back
"on route." Phil had a better idea involving less traffic so we went
northeast from Lake Jackson on T-2004. It was a good idea with light traffic but
our daily headwind was with us in the greatest strength since west of Del
Rio.
This is bayou country and we crossed several on the
otherwise flat, featureless terrain. At Chocolate Bayou we passed an immense
refinery stretching for a mile. We passed several more in Texas City and
Galveston. We came to working class Hitchcock and turned toward Galveston on
T-6, graduating to I-45 for five miles to cross over to Galveston Island.
There we saw the backside of industrial Galveston; rail yards,
docks, shipyards, and a container ship unloading yard plus a large U of T
medical center. Then we crossed the entrance to Galveston Bay via ferry to Port
Bolivar named after the great Liberator of South America, on the western end of
the Bolivar Peninsula. The ferry service is run by the TDOT and is FREE. It
takes about 30 minutes and is very efficient. The weather continues to be fine
and temperatures in this part of Texas are in the fourteenth day of above
average temperatures. That is good news when it is mid-November in Texas.
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