Still Texas, Part 4

Tis the day before Christmas, and in the RV

No rodents were stirring; just Al, birds, and me.

The weather was nasty; the rain didn't slow

from Junction straight on to San Antonio.

We traveled quite early and got to the park

a little past midday; the weather still stark.

While climbing around to plug everything in

I slipped in the rain and slammed bad knee and shin! 

Al came to the rescue with nonchalant shrug

and got me patched up and then plugged every plug

So now we sit warmly, the whole, traveling bunch

and happily wait for the pizza for lunch!

Sorry - I couldn't pass up the opportunity to create a bad "Night Before Christmas" takeoff.  The text is accurate though - the weather has pretty much sucked all day so far but since Al didn't have to work today we packed up and started traveling early.  I took very few photos today - mostly because it was so foggy and overcast - but once again we spent our time going up one hill and down the next, as you can see below.

 The radio station we were listening to at the time identified itself as part of "hill country" and brother, they were exactly right!  The other day we spent our time up and down hills at about 4000 feet, but today we had moved down to about 1500 feet above sea level.  Also, we started out about 50 miles north of San Antonio (and about 50 miles west of it as well) so we gained about 10 degrees in temperature as we approached, which is a really good thing!  Mid 40s beats mid 30s any day of the week in my book!

At first we continued through very sparsely populated countryside but after a while we started seeing lovely farmhouses and herds of cows, sheep, goats, etc. and soon afterward businesses of all sorts started to appear on both sides of the highway.  We had arrived in San Antonio.

This RV park is actually somewhat out of our way - but it was very highly rated by the Good Sam people so we're giving it a whirl.  We also found out that it's right next door to Sea World!  The park is very large and as usual, the people running it are very friendly and accommodating.

I mentioned that I only took a few photos today because of the weather - here are the rest of them that turned out publish-able, just so you can see what we were looking at:

This was one of the nice little farms that started springing up along the way.

The topography had become temperate but the fog prevented me from taking any good photos of it.  :(

 This actually was taken just outside Junction but again, the fog didn't let me take many interesting shots.  We'll try again tomorrow.



As I mentioned in the poem above, while walking around the site to hook us up I slipped in the rain and fell onto my already bad, left knee (OUCH!) and had one of those moments where you wonder how on earth you're going to get yourself up again!  I struggled to my feet as Al came to my rescue.  He swiftly put everything right as I came inside and slapped a cold bottle of water on my scraped and already turning black and blue knee.  Drat!  I love being graceful!

Well, things being what they were, we decided we didn't want to cook (especially with me gimping around and whimpering pitifully) so we called the office and asked if there were any nearby restaurants that delivered to the RV park.  Turns out there is - and because I mentioned I didn't want to walk to the office to pick up their menu because of my fall they were nice enough to deliver the menu to us!  We placed our order and got enough food to last us through tomorrow.  The best part is that absolutely everything we tried was delicious!    And it's only 2:45 in the afternoon!  What'll I do with all this time??

Yay!  A happy ending after all!