To be out exploring, rolling away from the Toy Box is like the first day of summer break, from a long school year of our youth.  The sky is bluer, the clouds are whiter and your heart rate is just a little faster than the day before.  Every overlanding adventure is exciting, like a kids summertime adventures, but when the trip starts with crossing the busiest waterway in the western hemisphere, Bolivar Roads, on a Ferry, the trip starts successful.  A four lane boat for vehicles and trucks. The adventure starts with the ferry slowly pulls away from the dock then starting its two mile trek across the narrows between Galveston Island and the Belvoir peninsula.  Within minutes the ferry appears to be in a race with sea gulls, Pelicans, and dolphin to get across to the other side, then you notice the ferry maneuvering to stand clear of the Freighters, Container and Fuelers ships that fill this small patch of water.  The trip is so enjoyable that the Tortuga is tempted to cross to Bolivar and turn right around and ride the ferry back to Galveston, and call the trip a tremendous success, but the Mission is One Mile More, or maybe one mile further than you have been before.

Much like Galveston, Bolivar is a narrow strip of land with the Gulf on one side and Galveston Bay on the other.  Homes on columns that raise the bottom floor over 14 feet above the beach in fear of Hurricane Storm surge. These homes speckle both sides of the road, headed to the Tortuga first destination.  To Anahuac.