IF .. BY SOME SLIM CHANCE .. I CAN
ASSIST ANY OF YOU READING ALONG HERE IT IS AS FOLLOWS:
WHEN I AM ABLE 'TO OWN’ SOMETHING .. YOU TOO CAN
DO THE SAME .. ‘OWN IT’ AND MOVE ON !
“What’s that ‘Zilla” .. “Read on and
you WILL-GET-IT ‘Zilla” ..
‘HEAH WE GO’ !
From the heading you already KNOW
Patti and I are now safely in San Antonio, Texas . Yesterday and the day before (and I STRESS that .. in my own self-defense
.. the following suggestion was tentatively spoken and it was not delivered with anything
approaching FIRMNESS) I told Patti that ‘maybe’ we should leave
Dallas/Arlington/Fort Worth, Texas on Friday morning .. drive to San Antonio on
Friday .. and .. still on Friday .. find and attend the NBA Professional
Basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Houston Rockets ..
Patti just sort of looked at me with
a look of ‘I DON’T THINK SO’ and THAT WAS THAT .. END of THAT 'temporary madness' !
The drive South from the Dallas Metro
Area to San Antonio (MapQuest and Yahoo Maps) is about 280+ miles and quoted as
taking from four to five hours depending on the speed-at-which-you-drive. So I thought that we could leave Arlington,
Texas, about 9AM or 10AM.. drive five
hours .. get into San Antonio about 2PM or 3PM .. find the AT&T Center ..
park and attend a 7:30PM game ..
We actually left Studio 6 in
Arlington, Texas, about 12:45PM yesterday afternoon. FORGET my concept of leaving at 9AM or 10AM!
To be sure I would not forget to mail them .. I had put a dozen post-cards to-be-mailed-in Arlington on the dashboard of our truck in-plain-sight right-in front-of-me .. the Post Office was at-the-most a five minute one mile drive away.
So as we left our Studio 6 .. I DROVE AWAY WITHOUT MAILING THEM. This series of never ending Senior Moments completely and totally BUMMED ME OUT! Patti said “Let’s just find a Post Office and mail the postcards so you can ‘let-this-angst-go’”.
To be sure I would not forget to mail them .. I had put a dozen post-cards to-be-mailed-in Arlington on the dashboard of our truck in-plain-sight right-in front-of-me .. the Post Office was at-the-most a five minute one mile drive away.
So as we left our Studio 6 .. I DROVE AWAY WITHOUT MAILING THEM. This series of never ending Senior Moments completely and totally BUMMED ME OUT! Patti said “Let’s just find a Post Office and mail the postcards so you can ‘let-this-angst-go’”.
THIS SENIOR MOMENT (NOT mailing the
post cards at the Post Office ‘next door to us’) COST US AT LEAST ONE FULL
HOUR. We finally found a Post Office in
Mansfield, Texas, thanks 100% to an AT&T ‘High Tech Employee’ who
pulled out his ‘Tablet’ and gave us precise directions in about 30-seconds in a
gas station off Highway 360 South from Arlington. What a job it turned out to be finding the Mansfield, Texas, Post Office. But we did and I mailed the post cards.
Then with Patti Driving (I was
sleeping in-the-back) we got through Waco, Texas, and about 50 or-so-miles North
of Austin, Texas .. It was about 5PM in
the afternoon .. Patti pulled into a Texas Rest Stop to take-a-break and I ‘struck-up-a-conversation’
with a gentleman in the parking lot of the Rest Stop. It is not unusual for others to notice our Alaska License Plates and this gentleman did and came over to speak with me.
IN FRONT OF BOTH PATTI AND MYSELF .. in
closing our conversation this gentleman WHO WORKS AND WHO LIVES IN AUSTIN told us both .. in STRONG and in FIRM
TONES .. “Do NOT go through Austin on I-35!
TAKE the Hwy 130 cut-off AROUND Austin!
It is a toll-road and will cost you about $15 BUT TAKE THE TOLL ROAD!”
DO TWO 'DING-A'LINGS' MAKE THEE A BELL?
DO TWO 'DING-A'LINGS' MAKE THEE A BELL?
Patti and I together decided NOT to take his
advice .. to save $15 and to ‘experience’ Austin, Texas, as we
drove-through-in-the-dark-of-night.
Well we ‘experienced’ Austin, Texas,
on I-35 South in-the-dark during rush-hour traffic. It equaled the WORST RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC I HAVE
EVER EXPERIENCED! It equaled the WORST
Los Angeles and the WORST New York City and the WORST Chicago and the WORST San
Francisco rush-hour traffic of my life!
And it cost us AT LEAST a full hour
of time! It was lock-step .. stop totally .. wait .. move 10-feet .. stop totally .. sit .. sit some more .. move maybe 20-feet .. you get-it you who KNOW serious rush-hour grid-lock traffic .. but in tiny little 'ol Austin, Texas?
We two finally rolled into Motel 6 here in
San Antonio at 8:37PM .. the four to five hour drive took us close-to eight
hours.
AND WAS I EXTREMELY HAPPY THAT I HAD LISTENED TO PATTI AND
WE DID NOT DO THIS DRIVE TODAY .. Friday, December 7, 2012 .. else Patti and I
would have been ‘BOMBED’ on Pearl Harbor Day by the drive South from
Dallas/Fort Worth and we would have either missed our game or arrived totally
exhausted!
Now we have all-day to find and park
and enjoy the game. Then after the Spurs
game we will rest up and head for Lafayette, Louisiana, early tomorrow morning (I am thinking about 3 o'clock A.M.)
so we can LISTEN TO LIVE CAJUN MUSIC ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT MULETE’S IN
LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA.
SO?
OWN your Senior Moments and ‘move on’ ..
we seniors all have them .. OWN your faulty thinking .. we all have it and ‘move on’ .. IF I can do it .. it is a
spiritual truth of the universe that anyone can do this! .. IF you really want to do so. Is it easy?
OH NO but JUST DO IT!
HOT-DIGGETY-DOG .. San Antonio Spurs
vs Houston Rockets ‘heah’ we come!
MUCH JOY FROM TWO PRETTY TIRED ROAD
WARRIORS! .. Patti and Cap ..
Well, when you don't take the local knowledge seriously, you get to EXPERIENCE Austin.
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