Junction, TX Sucks . . .
This is actually the blog for Wednesday, the 4th of April. I couldn’t post it due to the bad Internet service we had in Junction. Thursday’s blog will be posted later.
We left Saddleback Mountain RV Park in Balmorhea, TX a little after 10am, heading 245 miles east to Junction, TX
But before we left I checked my engine oil and found no sign of antifreeze.
So far, so good.
Just outside of Ozona, we started running into large fields of bluebonnets. I guess all the rain they had here in the Texas Hill Country had been good to the flowers. Unfortunately we didn’t have the camera upfront so we didn’t get any photos. But here’s a sample from a previous year.
We got into Junction, TX about 3pm and got checked in to the North Llano River RV Park. When we last stayed here in 2007 and 2008, it was a KOA, but now it’s just a Good Sam park.
On today’s trip, we drove 55, but had a lot more hills than yesterday, but traveling 245.5 miles using 24.4 gallons of diesel, giving us 10.1 MPG.
I’m loving this new non-leaking exhaust manifold. I’ve gained about a 15% increase in gas mileage. At this rate the new manifold will pay for itself fairly soon.
About 4pm Jan and I headed out for dinner, stopping off at the office to settle up and complain about the non-functional WiFi system. Apparently it got struck by lightning a couple of weeks ago, and Radio Shack? hasn’t been able to fix it yet.
I think I see the problem here.
We had dinner at Cooper’s BBQ just north of I-10. We had eaten here in 2010 and remembered it as being pretty good. But either our memory was faulty or it’s gotten bad, because it wasn’t very good.
So to make up for the bad meal, we make a Nick Russell Memorial Visit at the DQ on the way home for some frosty goodness. Sorry Nick.
Getting back to the rig, I discovered how sucky the Internet was here, only 1x and almost none of that. And to make things even worst, although I had 3 bars of phone service, it was impossible to make a phone call that would last more than a few seconds without dropping out.
Did I say Sucky?
We would occasionally get an email to come in, but couldn’t send anything. I could sometimes get a webpage to come up, but mostly I got nothing.
One email that did get through was from our daughter-in-law Linda, telling us that our granddaughter Piper had won a Moody Foundation Scholarship for $2000.00 a year. She graduates from high school this May and wants to be a Physician’s Assistant. She’s been interning at a local hospital for a while as part of her classes and plans to work there after graduation as she continues her education.
Then we got an email that almost stopped our breathing. There was no message, just the subject line that said “Landon being admitted to hospital”. Nothing else.
We had talked to Brandi earlier in the day while we were on the road, and she had said that she was on the way home to pick up Landon from daycare and take him to his doctor because his daycare said he was coughing a lot and had thrown up.
We try calling Brandi several times but never had a good connection. So finally at about 9:30 we got dressed and drove down to the Valero truck stop by the Interstate.
Since we still couldn’t make a cell call, we went into the Valero and used a pay phone. Getting hold of Lowell, we found out that Landon’s visit to the doctor hadn’t improved things much, and since he was having trouble breathing, they took him to the Emergency Room where he was admitted immediately.
Lowell said he was doing much better but they were keeping him overnight. The doctor’s kind of suspects an asthma attack, but weren’t sure.
Needless to say, we didn’t sleep very well.
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Thought for the Day:
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is ‘never try’”. – Homer Simpson
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