Nigel's 60th Birthday on the road to Galveston, Texas

 

We have decided to push on through this part of Texas. The roads are good and there are acres and acres of long grained rice growing in the fields, oil and gas offshore and not a lot else. Corpus Christie to Galveston for the all important celebration of Nigel’s 60’th birthday.

 





We left the Best Western Hotel on the marina at Corpus Christie after probably the worst breakfast we have had on the entire trip. Breakfast sustains you through the long morning drive and when you are faced with a buffet of inedible options it saps morale somewhat. We left Galveston dribving past the USS Lexington, now a museaum. Lexington was one of the World War two carriers which was missed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbour and now sits in Galveston as a floating museum. Although at the time she was a mighty ship of war, compared to modertn US carriers she looks very modest.

 




We made good progress to Huston and then things got very busy indeed. The traffic on the Huston Highway was very large, very fast and everyone’s in some sort of hurry. Its not a lot of fun being buffeted by large trucks as they speed past. Just at the busiest point of all Chris decided, despite having stopped at a petrol station about an hour earlier, to run out of petrol. Now the Rolls running out of petrol is a non-trivial event since in addition to pouring the 20ltr fuel can into the tank the float chamber of the carburettor has to be dismantled and filled with petrol before the car will start. The Lagonda’s parked on the hard shoulder, front and back, loyal praetorians protecting the old girl.

 






We had always planned on arriving in Galveston in reasonable time to enjoy the evening but in the event we got an enormous amount down. Nigel wanted to put his new spare tyres on his rear wheels and disappeared to try and sort it. Chris and Ham managed to get an oil change in Kwik Kar Oil and Lub having found some 20/50 mineral oil in an Auto Zone (Halfords on steroids!). Then Ham managed to persuade the nearby tyre shop to change his rear tyres. This proved fortuitous as Nigel had already tried four tyre shops all of whom had refused to change a tubed tyre. As the lads completed Ham’s tyres, Nigel arrived to have his done as well. A great job for all concerned.

 

 

 

 

We ate at Katie’s Seafood House restaurant in Galveston and had one of the best meals of the trip so far. The three musketeers drank some wine, ate delicious food and reminisced about the adventure to date and looked forward to other co-drivers joining for the final run to New York. A really nice evening.





 

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