Well Walter arrived Tuesday night. Deb got home just fine too. What took Walter four hours to fly will take seven days to drive and cost ten times more. Walter and I went to the Congress Street bridge in Austin to watch the millions of bats that fly out at dusk--as Deb said for us to do. I told Walter it was too cold for the bats but we went anyway. At dusk, of course, the bats failed to appear and Deb did further research and found the bats are only present March through November. But the homeless people came out at dusk and congregated at the bridge.
We ran around Austin and went to The Salt Lick Restaurant in Driftwood, TX. It was the best beef brisket that I have ever had. It was cheap too. Walter really liked his too.
We left today for Dallas. It was a short drive of about 230 miles. The wind and cold is horrible. The wind kept blowing The Love Boat side to side which made a short drive seem like an eternity. It seems the 20 degrees F weather is freezing the locals to death. The Raleigh folks were complaining about the weather there but geez Louise. It is going to be very cold tonight with high winds. Even the puppies are hauling their furry butts inside quickly after making icicles on the shrubbery. They are city puppies though and not used to such hardships.
Speaking of the puppies, they are tired of wearing their pigheads. They now want a set of Longhorn cattle horns. I don't know if I want them playing Longhorn Puppy. They might put an eye out. But I do plan to get some horns and put them on The Loveboat or The Crapper. Being in Texas has inspired me that horns are necessary on everything. Besides it is really classy too. I might get the puppies some horns but put rubber tips of them to keep them from goring Walter. The puppies play rough and we don't want Walter having to play one-eyed pirate for real. After all, we're only in Texas for a couple more days. The puppies might look funny running around at the dogpark in Raleigh with horns on their heads.
We are venturing into Dallas tomorrow since we got into the RV park so late. We went into Terrell, TX for dinner and found a Cajun style restaurant which got me to thinking that we are near the Louisiana stateline. I've enjoyed Texas but good lord this is a huge state. We are about 1100 miles from home and the call for my own bed keeps growing louder by the mile. However, we will be having fun it Dallas tomorrow. We plan to go see the Cowboy's new stadium. Cool.
Texas is a truly unique state. Walter saw a roadside billboard advertising an adult bookstore. The unique thing was it had "family parking". Now what does that mean? If that happened in Raleigh the baptist's head would explode regardless if the sign was meant to be funny. Driving into Terrell tonight we saw three drive through liquor stores. Terrell is a small town. I remember when somebody tried to open a similar store in Apex (suburb of Raleigh) and the baptists had a conniption. The baptists said it would promote drunk driving. Yeah right. Tell that to Texans. They have family parking outside their drive-through liquor stores.
We have roughly five days until we reach Raleigh.
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