Vacation update 1

 

We left on Friday morning, much to the woe and lamentation of our cat.  She'll survive, we're sure, particularly because friends from the North Texas Troublemakers will look in from time to time to restock her food, pet her, and generally reassure her that she hasn't been abandoned.

We spent Friday night in San Angelo, TX.  Friends there were flooded out by the tragedy last year, and left all their guns with us while they dried out and began remodeling their home.  Repairs have now progressed far enough that they've been able to move in again, so we took their guns back to them.  I must admit, I was half-hoping that a traffic cop would stop us and ask, "Any guns in the car?"  I'd have invited him to take his pick of a score or more!  In some places that would make the cop nervous, but here in north Texas he'd probably have spent the next half-hour on an impromptu show-and-tell.

We drove down to Corpus Christi today.  It was a relatively cool run, thanks to widespread light rain.  We're going to spend the next week in the area, playing tourist, walking along the beach, swimming, and generally relaxing and unwinding.  We're both under doctors' orders to let go of all our cares and concerns, which have been rather heavy over the past while, so we'll be lazy and enjoy the abundant seafood.  We started that tonight;  I had a grilled snapper, while my wife tried a "black drum", a type of fish of which I'd previously never heard (but which tasted great).  Key lime pie and turtle cheesecake finished the meal, with some coming back to the hotel with us for a midnight feast (if we can hold out that long).

Laid back and lazy will be the order of the next few days.

Peter