EV Road Trip Day 3
We enjoyed a great sleep and delightful breakfast at Ocho Restaurant at the historic Havana Hotel in downtown San Antonio adjacent to the River Walk. The room was nicely appointed, and the menu and the food, wonderful.
Then we hit the road and there was a lot of road construction, narrow lanes, confusing signs, and large aggressive trucks, especially coming out of San Antonio and through Houston, where the lane lines were all over the place, and Beaumont, Texas, where crazy drivers swerved in and out of traffic along the gauntlet of uneven cement highway barriers.
Once we got into Louisiana, it was much better, except that due to petrochemical plants in Lake Charles, we had to use Tesla’s bio-hazard defense mode to mitigate the air pollution that was burning our eyes and throats.
Looking at the Teslafi stats, our efficiency was better and we stopped at some good Superchargers—never yet on this trip have we had to wait for a Supercharger.
Some people stretch their miles, preferring to travel the farthest distance between charging stops. We stop often because the charging is quicker, it is good to stretch, and we often chat with other Tesla owners. This is the recommended method, by the way.
We placed our 5th Tesla Cache at the Supercharger in Baton Rouge. Tomorrow will be the longest day so far, driving through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and then the entire length of the Florida Panhandle to Jacksonville, which, barring any unforeseen slowdowns, will take us abut nine and one-half hours not including Supercharging, the culmination of what I call, “The Long Slog East.”
