Day 44 - Houston

We tried to sleep all day since we got in at 8am, but of course I was so excited to see everyone, and I couldn’t sleep an ounce.  Nicole made French toast and fruit salad for breakfast.  We unloaded our car and started to clean out the interior.  As you can imagine, the inside was filthy having traveled for a month and a half.  The outside was even more filthy.  

My dad is the master of washing and detailing cars, so he was out helping us get the mounds of dirt off the car.  My dad, Ryan, and I spent a couple hours cleaning the car and I thought we cleaned every ounce of dirt.  A couple days later, I closed the trunk really hard and down came more chunks of mud.  I'm sure we'll be finding dirt for months to come :)

(This was the end of my parents driveway.   The water from washing the car was DARK BROWN and the chunks were being carried down the road.)

(Our blown out tire; the inner tire tore and split all the way around the outside.  The guy at the repair shop couldn't find a hole anywhere in our tire.  He said this was the first time in his life he has seen something like this without a hole.)