Homeward Bound - Spring 2014 - Day 1

Our first day of travel went very smoothly.  We have stopped for the night in the small central Texas town of Franklin.  Hotel is nice but not much in the town. 

The best part of today's drive was avoiding Houston.  Our route missed all of the major Texan cities.  My kind of day.

It's spring in Texas.  Wild flowers abound along the highway and in the fields.

 

 

Lots of road construction.  The highway leading out of the valley has been recently designated as an interstate.  Lots of work need to modify state highways to interstates.

All of these trucks are filled with asphalt - at least 15 lined up waiting.

As you drive out of South Texas on Highway 281, all traffic passes through the Falfurias checkpoint.  It is like going through customs at the border.  A border patrol agent asks you questions, dogs sniff for drugs or illegal aliens and vehicles can be xrayed, searched and seized. 

Tomorrow we head for Arkansas.