REMEMBER THE ALAMO!

and now to bring you up to speed! it wont be the most indepth post due to us having not posted in a while but ill do the best i can. ok so we spent the night at a friend of Thomas's and the storm passed us in the night. we had some good warm food and then went to sleep on beds! in the morning we were treated to breakfast and some sight seeing. many of the things that got destroyed in hurricane Katrina were still deserted - emty lots, concrete steps and foundations without houses.

when we got back to the house Shane did a little welding on the broken clutch bracket! His daughter asked me "did my Daddy fix your car?" and i told her that he had. she replied "my Daddy can fix helicopters and cars, he can fix anything!" we got the car put back together did a little relaxing and then headed out. we drove into Louisana and saw New Orleans, bourbon street at night. we kept going a little further and then spent the night at our old friend Wal-Mart :)

in the morning we got up and did some more driving and made it into Texas! we got to Houstin and visited my friend Sarah. we hung out and i worked on the clutch bracket some more. the welds held fine it is the metal of the bracket that is bending. acutally given where its bending i dont know how it held the 230,000 previous miles. i put more wire in there and bent the bracket back and it made the clutch happy again. Sarah's mom was nice enough to let us stay at her house which was awesome! we got another shower and in the morning Sarah's mom made us breakfast! as we were leaving she sent us off with some fresh fruit and candy :)

we drove to San Antonio and saw the Alamo! that was some neat history, it was our own version of The 300 where few held out against many for freedom. we saw the river walk in San Antonio which is neat and then we drove up to Austin where we met Thomas's friend Matt. we got to stay at his house - two showers in as many days! we are living in the lap of luxury! today we got to play some video games and i spent a while working on the clutch bracket again. this time i used coat hanger wire because its thicker and i came up with a new way to twist it tight so it doesnt stress it and make it break. we will see how long this version will last. we did a little stop and go driving where i used the clutch a lot and it seems to be holding... tomorrow we are going to head west some more and see a couple more states :)