Waltz across Texas

I've just waltzed across Texas and, boy, are my tires tired.

Kim and I had appointments in various Texas cities over the weekend, so we had a lot of driving to do.

The first appointment was in Austin at noon on Saturday. We got up around 6:30, got final items packed and the dogs ready to travel. Popped in the truck, stopped by Shipley's for breakfast and were on the road by 8:00 a.m.

We'd wanted to do some geocaching on the way to Austin, but that departure time gave us no time for it, if the cache proved difficult to find. So, straight to Austin. There was a bit of delay on 290 in Chappell Hill due to construction reducing two lanes to one. Shortly thereafter, we stopped, switched drivers and cleaned out Jack's kennel. He'd been sick.

We arrived in Austin a little before my meeting was supposed to start and Kim took off to the dog park with the boys.

Four hours later, my meetings were over, so we packed back into the truck and headed toward Huntsville. We stopped in Taylor for dinner at Rudy Mikeska's bar-b-q joint. Probably the best sausage I've come across at a bar-b-q place. Not ground too fine and a good dose of pepper.

We stopped in Thorndale to find a geocache, I think. I just did a search and there's no cache near there to find. I'll have to double-check where we found the first one. We stopped later in Rockdale to find a cache at the library and failed, miserably.

We managed to pull into Huntsville around 8:30 after a stop at the Sonic for floats and shakes.

Sunday morning we loaded the moped into the bed of the truck, said our goodbyes and were on our way. Traffic was light, allowing us to make it home around 2:30.

We collapsed for a couple of hours. The dogs were at least as tired as we were.

500 miles. We've done more, but this was a tough weekend. Next weekend is a drive to Bandera, Texas and back. That's over 3 days instead of 2.

tag : Travel