DATELINE: houston, tx                                                    

Author: Karl

Phew! Today was just one pain after the other. Andy's hi end fancy luggage lost a wheel which rolled out of the lobby of the hotel. I started off the day driving the first leg after the usual approx 4 hours of sleep after a night of drinkin. The next dose of crap today threw at us was when andy's memory stick suddenly became unrecognizable to his camera, which means we had to pick up another one at best buy and lost a lot of our pictures. Next few hours went smooth until I jerked my head up from a nap to a load bang and Andy swerving all over the road. The wheel had a huge gash and the tear looked like someone shot it with a shotgun. We marooned the car at the 'texas nuthouse' candy shop in a nothing town in texas. We found a repair shop, threw on the donut tire, then were forced to re-route through houston to exchange the minivan for a new one.... This time we got a kia of similar size and its much nicer. Because of this we missed out on the texas prison system museum and lost hours, oh well. Onward to Austin...