8:53 am - departure
4:20 pm - arrival
410 miles
We woke up after the best night of sleep we both had this whole trip. San Antonio was awesome! Now that we are out of Texas, I will give you the real-deal. From the moment we entered, it felt like a battle (El Paso & that story...). Then, Van Horn was nada to write home about. At least we were only 2 doors from the lobby. :o) We had to settle for extremely crappy coffee and hit the road (after Mary literally tried to clean the windows with only water and a 20 year old squeegie (sp?). We made a stop at a gas station... I can't find a way to describe that situation (no worries, our car was cool & safe), so when you (who are reading this) are talking to me, ask me about it.
San Antonio was HOT! Mary & I decided to go for it! Picture this combo = Linds, skirt & long sleeved shirt. Mary, jeans and tank top with a shawl. Hot & nice, turns to cold and windy. We got a little turned-around because we exited the river walk in a different place than we entered. Thank goodness for the turquoise jacket people! They see lost tourists and walk up and ask to help!! Cheers to Harley!! I used to laugh at the SF tourists who would be on Pier 39 with sundresses, and it's cold! They keep the "San Francisco" sweatshirt shops in business. If it weren't for the fact that neither I, nor Mary wanted anything to wear that reads "Texas" - we chose to fight it out. Let's just say a friendly breeze turned into being pelted in the face with texas dust/crap. We still had blocks to go! We finally made it. Mary, using the scarf for shelter. Lindsay, holding on dearly to my skirt. I saw peeps laughing. Shute, I would laugh at us too.
We changed, went back out much warmer & cozier and guess what? We were met by Hail. Texas.....
Today, we left - headed to Lafayette. Houston was a trip! Prolly the most stressful of the parts. We (thankfully) had a route which took us around the main part of Houston. It was lunchtime, so it was a great idea. (Thank you Taylor & Mary!!!) The thing is, it was a stressful belt-way! Just the perfect way to end Texas! We had rain & literally high-fived when we made it out of TX. That rain turned into a hard rain. We made it here at 4:20 (central time) and since it was storming, it was getting dark.
Cats: Richard is great during the day. Meowes a little at night. Tonight, we have those bed types where there is no "under the bed" - it's like a board. He managed to pull an old trick (not known to us until i thought hard on where the he**ck he could be) and made a hole in the box-spring bottom cotton-cover thing, and crawled through. He was missing for a while..... there were very few hiding places in this huge room... and then I remembered the ol' trick. Sure enough - he was there. Lyric is good. 3 plants are doing extremely well!! We load those roller luggage things up from the lobby and it looks like we are moving in.... too much!
Tomorrow, the W in New Orleans!!!! We can't WAIT! Short drive - early check-in - fun times!!!
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Tonight's hotel room has a pillar in the middle of it!! Here's Lyric cruising around it.
Richard found the window before the box-spring...
The trees were beautiful around the River Walk. :o) Looks like fall?
1 comment:
Did you guys really make it there at 4:20 exactly or do you just like that number :-) Ok you know you both are getting Dork of the Day in my book :-) Are you both keeping track who does the most dorky things in a day to get the grand ole DOD award :-) Well I'm glad you guys are having fun. i hope you don't get hit too hard with the bad weather. Take care and I want to hear all about New Orleans. If you get a lot of beads we'll all know what you guys did :P Have fun!!!
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