Stubers ... Simplified

Having gotten all of our "becoming a Texan" chores done and even getting our taxes mostly done and up-to-date with blogging, I was feeling caught up, in control, confident.... perhaps TOO confident. On the drive from Willis to Galveston, on I-45, a truck pulled up along side trying to get our attention and pointing back at our rig. We found a safeish place to pull over and Pam and I both took turns going out to see if we could figure out what the problem was. Nothing was obvi

On the Monday drive to San Antonio, we were struck by the quick cutover from the barren West Texas desert to the grassy, shrubby central Texas range land. It seemed to occur just as we crossed the Colorado River (not THAT Colorado River. Seems there is more than one). An uneventful driving day got us into Medina Lake Thousand Trails, our third Thousand Trails resort. We'd heard good things about this one and it did not disappoint. It was a very park-like setting with lots of

Figured it’s time for a check-in post. How’s this all working out? Is traveling full time all it was cracked up to be? Have you and Pam sworn to kill each other yet? Is Crayton about ready to put himself up for adoption? Well… frankly, things are better than expected. One thing I tend to do is obsess on stuff. Whether it’s hobby, a book series, a tv series, a technical topic at work, or .. you know … ‘alternative’ lifestyles … I tend to read a lot on a subject prior to doing

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Nighttime would find me in Rosa's cantina Music would play and Felina would whirl So this song, originally by Marty Robbins but covered with regularity by The Grateful Dead, has been on repeat in my head for weeks as we got close to west Texas. We even found a fake "Rosa's Cantina" at Old Tuscon. I had vague memories of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico from a trip with by grandmother when I was about