I HOPE ..

MAKE NO MISTAKE .. I FULLY REALIZE HOW BLESSED AND HOW LUCKY AND HOW FORTUNATE I AM TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL AS I DO. THE ENTIRE POINT OF MY WEBSITE HERE IS TO REALIZE MY DESIRE THAT .. IN SOME SMALL WAY .. ONE OF MY POSTS OR ONE OF MY PHOTOGRAPHS WILL MAKE ONE PERSON'S DAY JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

TO FEEL GOOD .. DO GOOD !

I HOPE THAT SOMEONE VISITING MY WEBSITE WILL SEE SOMETHING ON IT THAT THEY WILL NOT EVER BE ABLE TO SEE OR TO DO OTHERWISE .. AND THAT THIS EXPERIENCE WILL MAKE THEIR DAY OR THEIR LIFE JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER !


IF YOU HAVE YOUR HEALTH AND ADEQUATE MONEY TO FOLLOW-YOUR-DREAM .. WITH DISCERNMENT .. FIND THE COURAGE AND HAVE THE GUTS TO DO WHAT GOD IS CALLING YOU TO DO!


TRULY THIS IS MY DOXOLOGY .. MY PRAISE TO GOD!

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Friday 7 December 2012

DEC 7, 12 .. WE .. ARE .. IN .. SAN .. ANTONIO .. TEXAS !


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’”.

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?

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 ..

2 comments:

  1. Well, when you don't take the local knowledge seriously, you get to EXPERIENCE Austin.

    This is a test post to see if I eliminated the comment hurdle.

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