Minneapolis, MN to Austin, TX along the Mississippi River via Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Tenessee, Kentucky, Tennesee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
Left Austin and headed for the gulf coast of Texas, at the border of Texas and Lousiana, via Houston. My route for the next few weeks would follow the Texas Gulf coast. I started my coast journey by camping at Sea Rim State Park near Sabine Pass, outside of Port Arthur.
Continuing along the gulf coast, I headed toward Galveston via the Bolivar Peninsula and the Port Bolivar Ferry and camped at Galveston Island State Park - right on the beach and only 10 miles out of town.
Left Austin and headed for the gulf coast of Texas, at the border of Texas and Lousiana, via Houston. My route for the next few weeks would follow the Texas Gulf coast. I started my coast journey by camping at Sea Rim State Park near Sabine Pass, outside of Port Arthur.
I took a couple of day trips out of Port Aransas and checked out Goliad (a historic town about an hour north of the coast) and Rockport (another neat town, right on the gulf).
Continuing south east, I headed toward an stayed in a motel on the beach in South Padre Island, the most built up of the Texas Gulf beach towns, as well as the furthest south. Boca Chica State Park was my last stop on the gulf, and from there I was into the hot and humid interior.
Goodbye sweet gulf, hello sweat interior. It was damn hot with no ocean breeze as I headed in through Brownsville, Mc Allen, Mission and the other towns in the lower Rio Grande Valley, snowbird and citrus capital of Texas.
Continuing my inland journey, I followed the Rio Grande through Nuevo Progresso (a short walk across the bridge over the Rio Grande) and on to Laredo and Nuevol Laredo, a little more built up border town on the Rio Grande River.
I headed up to San Antonio from Laredo to get the 6000 mile maintenance completed on Bella. I hung out downtown in San Antonio and enjoyed the old architecture downtown and good Mexican and Tex-Mex food.
