If you don’t really want to wade through 60 days’ worth of posts, I’ll break it down for you: Williamsburg: Stayed in an okay park, ate some good food, did some shopping and geocaching, got a little Colonial American history. Lex had her only real days off during the whole trip. Stone Mountain: Stayed in [...]
This morning, I left my sister’s house and headed back to “historic” Grapevine (the little downtown tourist district) not far from the campground. I was on a mission to find another stuffed armadillo for my friend, Anne’s, other son. While I was there, I also planned on finding a few geocaches. The souvenir shop was [...]
I woke up this morning with yet another migraine. Urgh! This is becoming a habit. The hotter the summer gets, the worse these things are. I did pull myself out of bed to spend some time with Lex and my sister before they both went to work. I spent a little time puttering around the [...]
Sunday was Lynn and Shay Day. Since we didn’t make it over for dinner Saturday, we showed up for breakfast the next morning. Lynn cooked, and we all sat around and chatted and ate. It was our first time being in their “new” house, so we got the grand tour. Oh. My God. Their place [...]
Continue reading about Days 54 & 55 on the road – In Grapevine
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
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 [...]
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
About 10:00 a.m., Lex found out that her boss had called a meeting of her company’s employees at a local Starbucks (everyone in San Antonio or linked to the San Antonio office now telecommutes) from noon to 3:00 p.m. But, but, but….I had to be in Gonzales for the funeral at 3:00 p.m. What to [...]
Continue reading about Day 38 on the road – In San Antonio and Gonzales
This afternoon I drove to Gonzales for my aunt’s viewing. I exited IH10 and headed down Hwy 183 south towards Gonzales. A couple of miles down the road, I encountered a tiny house being moved, presumably to its permanent home. If only I could have hijacked it! Not sure if it was a Tiny [...]
Continue reading about Day 37 on the road – In San Antonio and Gonzales
