Texas is hot.

We Picked up our ride share Harriet Wednesday morning in NOLA(New Orleans, Louisiana). She's a very nice middle-aged woman we found on craigslist to share the gas cost. She was easy to get along with and had a really colorful personality. The drive to Houston was around 5 hours long. Harriet made arrangements to stay with a friend there for the night. Meg and I made couchsurfing arrangements for the evening. We were going to stay with Renee and her two housemates. They were hosting a little Cinco de Mayo get-together. It was a lot of fun, many laughs were had. Fran, one of Renee's housemates, prepared a delicious meal. We drank cheap Mexican beer and met a lot of cool people. I really enjoyed our time there and felt a little sad we were only staying the one night.

The following morning we said our goodbyes, picked up Harriet, and set out for Austin. Our next host had work until later evening so we headed down town to check out the city. I haven't mentioned our little hang up with the car. It does this thing were it goes into cooling mode and starts to overheat. Meg's mom told us this useful trick to pull the heat off the engine blast the heat in the car. It only has this problem when we're in stop-and-go traffic and city driving. So we ended up driving around Texas with the heat blasting in 90 degree weather in city traffic.
Later we met up with our host Charlie. She took us to a place called Spider House and we got to meet here friends who were fire spinning there. It was a great show. Then a few of us went downtown to a place called Shakespeare's and experienced the wild drunks of Austin.