Fix it

We have been in San Antonio two weeks and thus far are enjoying all we have been doing.  As much as we enjoy traveling around it is great to be planted in one spot for a time.  There are still adventures and fun to be had.  We get to see all the little things that are missed by the travel through tourist.  Life is pretty stress free.  I didn't even yell much at Dick when he pulled into the parking spot at the grocery and hit the car in front of him.  No damage done and no alarm when off so we ran into the grocery before anyone could confront us.  I also didn't yell when he backed out and hit the cart return thingy with the drivers front quarter panel and most likely dented the truck (I was scared to look).  So yes......stress levels are low.

We have been busy painting, cleaning, organizing, and fixing things at Dicks sister Barb house.  I guess we needed a dose a homeowners life.  Sooooooooo glad we put that behind us for a while, but still love the fix it mode and helping out where needed.

We have been driving around a bunch and realizing that this is a ginormous city.  We also remembered how much we hate traffic and stupid drivers.  Dick says we will never live anywhere that a 5 minute drive turns out to be 1/2 hour.  It really is pretty ridiculous.  We have visited about 6 breweries since we have arrived and 4  disc golf courses.  I don't know if you can tell from this picture but we saw some pretty strange animal tracks at a golf course.  I personally thought it was an animal that would gallop out of the wood and trample me to death but we never saw this creature.  Thanks goodness!!!!

Texas has some pretty weird trees.  Mostly short and pokey. There are not many pines in this area but the short pokey trees have their own beauty.  There was one patch of blue in the sky and it showed up looking pretty cool in one of these pictures.  

Things have been really dry here with little to no rain, so there is lots of dust in this the air when the wind is blowing but the temps here are awesome.   I think the lack of rain keeps the creek and rivers looking a bit clearer and this one that we came upon was beautiful and we should have jumped in but there were fish swimming around in it that looked like piranhas and again I feared for my life. (really we just didn't have our suits with or we would have jumped in). I can say with all honesty that fresh fallen snow is beautiful but the temps that come along with it suck, so you can send me pictures cause I am not living in that crap again.

We have discovered that Texas has an overabundance of deer.  Much different of my complaints of no wild life in Michigan.  They are everywhere & just standing in the road waiting to get run over.  I am sure that one of these days Dick will run into one of them with the truck & put another dent in it.

The weather is getting to almost a perfect 75 with no humidity so I hope to get out for more adventure hikes and small town touristy things.  We have met some pretty amazing people here in Texas thus far and hope to meet more.

*He that spills the Rum loses that only; He that drinks it, often loses both that and himself.*

Las Cruces to San Antonio

We left  Las Cruces and headed toward San Antonio taking our time and stopping a couple places along the way. Remember the sketchy campground we stayed at??  Well we found a sketchier on in Van Horn TX. These people must stay in business because of people like us who care not to read reviews or research. We are ok with sketch!! You meet some pretty interesting people in sketchy places. Probably should be packing a gun but I think I could do some real damage with my Burts Bees. What criminal wouldn't scream like a little girl if bees wax lip balm was thrust in the their eye!  Any how, we drove so close to Mexico that we could have spit on it! Didn't see any wall and I don't know how to spit without it dribbling down my face so I didn't and why would I? I love Mexico??

We stopped before we hit San Antonio and we are sooooooo happy we did.  It was an awesome campground called Cowboys and Angels in Mountain Home, TX.  The property was gated and there were tons of deer and other hoofed animals which I can not identify (not cows) but were totally awesome to watch wandering around the property.  The owners had feeders all over and they have a burger night every Saturday night and opened their little saloon and had a fire and hey ride.  Really a neat quite place.  NOT SKETCHY at all!  

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We also hit up some small town touristy things and a couple breweries (of course).  Our friends in Las Cruces gave us cookies and glasses for going away presents too so we had some fun with those.  We took a walk along the Guadalupe River and saw some funky trees with Dr Seuss balls in them too.

  We made it to our 3 month home in San Antonio and although the campers are parked kind of close it is quite and I don't feel like we will die here.  Death experiences are yet to come.  There was a close call with a prickly cactus today though!!!

We had dinner with Dicks sister Barb and her son Jonathan yesterday when we arrived and look forward to many more visits with them over the next couple of months!!

*Clean your fingers, before you point at my spots.*