Costa Rica Driving Adventure Day 3: McAlester, Oklahoma to Laredo, Texas

Today was a really long day. The long days are hard on Oscar as he gets stressed out after being in the car for a long time. For this reason, we are going to keep the days shorter the rest of the way. We now have 1500 miles down and 2500 miles to go.

Midas is getting very used to the car.

Bugsy is so good you don't even notice he is there. For the first 3 hours this morning from McAlester, OK to Dallas, all 4 of the pets slept.

It was very nice. I didn't realize that any state had speed limits over 70 mph. I snapped a picture when I saw one. I didn't realize that later I would see one for 80 mph and then 85 mph. Very cool! Texas also has signs that tell people the left lane is only for passing. These are sorely needed in Ohio. In Dallas, I stopped to pick up Barney Cox at the DFW airport.

He is a facebook friend of mine from Florida. We then drove to Austin to pick up Dean Ryan who I know from my appearances on the Alex Jones Show. Dean used to work for Alex. A little past San Antonio, TX I took the pugs for a walk.

I noticed Midas was limping badly. I wondered what was wrong so I picked him up. I noticed he had burrs all over his paws. Poor guy. So dad had to spend a few minuted picking them off. We then headed for Laredo, TX to spend my last night as a U.S. resident in the Laredo Red Roof Inn.

We were given a room on the 3rd floor at the end of a long hallway. Ugh. That is not what you want when you are traveling with three pugs. Bugsy found a spot he likes here.

Tomorrow morning we will cross the Mexico border and spend a couple hours driving through the territory of the Mexican drug lords. Sounds like fun! Hopefully we will not have any issues crossing the border. I think all of my papers are in order.