Daily Archives: June 26, 2016
I Can’t Wait For Driverless Cars . . .
We left the park about 3:30 for our usual 1 hour trip into Katy to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at Texas Tradition, a local Katy restaurant that they discovered a week or so ago.
But our normal 60 minute trip took over 90 minutes due to 45 miles of rolling phantom slowdowns. And it started as soon as we turned onto US-10 in Columbus with bumper to bumper 10mph traffic as far as we could see.
But then a couple of miles out of town everyone started speeding up, and very quickly we were all doing the 75mph speed limit,
For about 5 miles. And then the brake lights came on, and we all quickly slowed down to a dead stop. But then after a few minutes we again slowly started moving forward. The creeping along lasted for another few minutes until suddenly everyone accelerated back up to 75 again. On several of the wide, sweeping curves where we could see the road for several miles, all we could see was solid traffic. Nothing but brake lights.
And the outbound side of I-10 had no problems whatsoever all the way.
This whole ‘rinse, lather, repeat’ thing lasted all the way until where the speed limit drops to 65 at the Waller county line and the Colorado River. Then everyone sped up to 75 again and it stayed that way until we got off I-10 15 miles later.]
We never saw any accidents, any construction, or any reason for the slowdown/speedups. So who knows.
I can’t wait for driverless cars. For everyone else, but not for me.
But it did cause us to be about 30 minutes late to meet the kids. But it was worth the wait.
Texas Tradition is a smallish family restaurant on US-90 near downtown Katy, And boy is it good. And the portions are enormous too.
Brandi had the Seafood Platter, while Lowell and Jan had the Chicken Fried Chicken Platter, Jan’s with Fried Okra and Homemade Mashed Potatoes.
I went with the Jalapeno Bacon Cheeseburger with Sweet Potato Fries.
And even though we were all stuffed, we couldn’t resist getting a couple of their fabulous homemade desserts to take home.
Jan went for the Chocolate Cream Pie,
while I checked out the Hot Apple Crisp.
And because the portions were so big, we all had plenty of leftovers to go with our desserts.
Getting our hugs, and our mail, we headed back to Colorado River TT a little after 6pm, with no slowdowns at all. But the incoming side seemed to have the same problems as this afternoon, with areas where everyone was speeding along, and areas where they were all just poking along.
Strange!
One day last week it was ‘Bring Your iPad to Dayschool’ Day. So Landon used his to take a selfie of him and his ‘girlfriend’.
She’s cute as a button, but we didn’t have her parent’s permission to post, so I blurred her face.
Thought for the Day:
Life is too short to worry about removing a USB drive ‘safely’.
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