Chris and Jason brought us breakfast this morning and saw us off, so they got to see what hitching up and getting the rig ready to roll looks like. It always tickles me to show people how the slides work. For some reason, folks are really captivated by that. Site built houses just don’t have [...]
Continue reading about Day 53 on the road – From Bandera to Grapevine
For whatever reason, I woke up feeling worse on Thursday than I did the day before. I’m not sure why, but I do know that my sunburned legs were now covered with small little blisters. I made myself get up and dressed and went into town where I went shopping for souvenirs for the folks [...]
Continue reading about Days 51 & 52 on the road – In San Antonio
Not a lot to report today. After scoring really excellent doughnuts from the Snowflake bakery for breakfast, I visited the local cemetery to find the graves of the Hay ancestors. There are quite a few very old tombstones there, some dating back to the Texas Revolution. The first Hays to settle in Bandera, Alexander and [...]
I spent today steeped in the history of Bandera, and the history of my great-grandfather’s family, the Hays, one of the founding families in this community. Ray Hay, my great-grandfather, was always a bit of a mystery to me. I knew he’d had another family before he married my great-grandma, and he’d been estranged from [...]
Sunday started out beautifully. While Alexis made a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon, I ran to the grocery store to stock up on a few things we needed for our trip tubing down the Medina River with Jason and Chris, who joined us for breakfast shortly after I got back. After breakfast, Alexis and [...]
Continue reading about Days 47 and 48 on the road – In Bandera
We were up around 8:00 a.m., and at 8:30 sharp, my friend Melinda knocked on the door. She was carrying homemade breakfast tacos AND a pan of cinnamon rolls! She brought us some El Milagro tortilla chips and a bag of groceries! That was so incredibly kind and generous. She must have figured we look [...]
Continue reading about Day 46 on the road – From San Antonio to Bandera
