We decided to take the southern-southern route 10 West all the way to the 8. Just to avoid any potential cold weather, also this is a way we have never driven before. When we drive across the country previous times we’re usually leaving from Chicago.
Good Deal/Bad Deal
First stop on the route was Biloxi Mississippi. I have never been here and love saying Biloxi Mississippi in a southern accent. Biloxi is a like a very mini Vegas; casinos and gambling.
You can get great deals staying at casinos, usually you can get a king size room for 50 bucks. I’m talking about a really nice room here, flat screen tv large bathroom, possible jacuzzi. Wow whatta deal! Alas there is no free wifi in the room or good movies on the tv, what is a person to do but go downstairs to the huge casino awaiting them.
This is where your good deal turns into a bad deal, the house always wins.
Here is how the casino wins all your money:
- your up a couple 100, you consider that free money and decide to gamble it and you loose it….damn it you’re thinking i just had a free couple hundred dollars,
- well you take 50 dollars more and try and double it.
- You loose the 50 dollars in 2 minutes, damn why did I spend that 50 dollars you ask yourself, I mean you could of just broke even, but now you down 50.
- Might as well try and win the 50 back, 1 minute later you’re down another 50.
- Repeat steps 2 through 4 until your completely broke and your awesome 50 dollar room turns into a 500 dollar room.
- Get up early the next morning, decide you should at least win something back, loose another 100.
The house is going win, even if you lucky to win a couple bucks in the beginning, it won’t stay in your pocket for long. Of course there is a few rare exceptions to the case where you will hear of someone winning thousands of dollars. This is where you decide maybe you will give gambling another shot, even though you swore never again last time.
This pic was my big 32 dollar win, my first five minutes in the casino, I thought it was amazing, I lost it all plus a couple hundred more about an hour later. Mike thought we could win some back by putting 100 dollars on red……..it landed on black.
New Orleans
The next day it was back on the road with a lunch time break in New Orleans. Neither of us have ever been to New Orleans, so it was cool to check it out. There is still a lot of construction and road work being done as well; recovery from Katrina. So lots of slow traffic, especially leaving New Orleans. You can still feel the effects of Katrina and a city trying to recover in a lot of ways.
We stopped off in the French Quarters to Cafe Du Monde For some famous Beignets, which were absolutely amazing!
Afterward we strolled around the Quarters and Bourbon street, the area was just waking up, it was probably around noon. Lot of people getting ready to party and drink, I really could not imagine Madre Gras here, it must be absolutely nuts!
A feel for Bourbon Street….many restaurants and bars, lots of different types of music blaring out from each place you walk by.
After leaving New Orleans it was a full day of driving, right into Texas. It took all of our will power to skip going to South Padre Island (best place to kiteboard in the states) Okay well actually the weather down there was suppose to be rain for the next ten days, otherwise I’m pretty sure we would have pit stop there for a couple weeks.
Austin Texas
Instead we made our way to Austin Texas, a place I have driven by but never actually stopped and check it out. This city is pretty sweet, lots and lots of bike and triathlon stores. I mean more then any other city I have been to. You can find a bike store on almost every other corner there.
In fact we stopped at Lance Armstrong’s bike store Mellow Johnny’s to check it out.
The store was sweet, I can for sure drop a ton of money here. They carry basically all the stuff that sponsors Lance ie-Trek. It is cool spot, very large, nice cafe and a bunch of cool bike accessories and clothing that I haven’t really spotted at other bike stores. Of course tons of bikes and even some really sweet fixed gear rides.
Another really cool thing we just happen to spot while driving around the city is this sweet BMX dirt park, it is basically right in the middle of downtown.
Oh and if you ever find yourself in Austin check out the whole foods downtown, it is absolutely amazing! I could live in there.
San Diego California
After Austin, both of us were getting pretty sick of being on the road, and really just wanting to get to our destination: San Diego. The worst part about taking a road trip is not having a home to go relax in, after it is all over and done with. After living on the boat, we were both ready to get to Socal and get settled into an apartment. It took another two days of driving, but we finally made it.
After 8 months of traveling, getting back to the West never felt so good.
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