[Bryn-gwlad] Stargate Yule

[Chris Zakes]

At 02:53 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote:
>We've been thinking of going to Stargate Yule
><http://stargate.ansteorra.org/yule2006.shtml>.
>
>Mapquest
><http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?
>address=2025+W.+11th+Street&zipcode=77008> says it's a two-hour,
>fourty-six minute trip from our house, one way.  Google Maps
><http://www.google.com/maps?q=2025+W.+11th+Street,+Houston,+TX> claims
>it'll take three hours and fifty minutes.  They both give the same
>directions--183 to 290 to 610 to Jester to Brice to 11th.  We've never
>driven from Austin to Houston.  Can somebody who's made the trip before
>comment on the actual time in transit?  (We habitually drive near--but
>not over--the maximum legal speed.)

I generally figure on three hours from Austin to Houston, so in that 
sense, Mapquest is more accurate.


>Does anybody see any problems with  the recommended route?

If you live in south Austin, you should take Hwy 71 to I-10 to 
Houston, rather than going up to 290 and back down to Houston. (As 
you can see from the map, I-10 and 290 hit loop 610 about a mile 
apart, so your end-point is pretty much the same.) Otherwise, that 
route is fine.

It's been 25 years since I lived there, so things may have changed, 
but IIRC, that area is a bit on the "rough" or "scruffy" side.

         -Tivar Moondragon