OMG!!!!! Left Austin early to overcast skies. By the time we got to Houston it was pouring down rain. I mean visibility about 75 yards! Trucks throwing blinding wakes at 60 MPH. White knuckled hands cramping on the wheel. Sarah too nervous to watch trying to knit. The dog sleeping obliviously. Hoping to blast to Lafayette to meet up with our friends, Steve and Laurie but bailed in Orange, Tx just west of the La border. Peeled my hands off the steering wheel and booked a room at Motel 6, the fourth place we tried to allow poor Herman. Assured the comfort of the wife and the dog then back out to hunt down vittles. A 9 piece chicken dinner from Church’s, a couple of bananas and yogurt for b’fast and a quick run into Red’s Liquor store for a fifth of Jim Beam. Now, belly full, dog gone to bed, two fingers bourbon down, and Sarah and I binge watching news. (Making my blood pressure go higher than the drive!!)
Had a wonderful visit in Austin albeit brief. Stopped in Bastrop about 15 miles out of town for breakfast. Maxine’s dinner for eggs, sausage, biscuits and grits. Refreshing to be served by tatted pierced polite and friendly folks in an assumed redneck conservative environment. Having fantasies of this being our winter sojourn next winter. But have had that fantasy before and will likely have it many more times before this trip is over.
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