WhataDisappointment . . .
Concerned about the forecast rain coming into the Columbus around 2pm, we were hooked up and on the road a few minutes before 9. Jan prefers that we take the slightly longer route up to Boerne, and then onto I-10E, rather than the even more hilly, curvy shortcut route directly to San Antonio.
But before we left, Jan fixed us her delicious Biscuit, Egg, and Bacon breakfast sandwiches. A great way to start the day.
Note how crispy the bacon is, with no sag. This is that Hormel Black Label Microwave Bacon I mentioned earlier.
It’s very, very good,
Our first stop was about 11:30 at the Buc-ee’s at the Luling exit on I-10 for a bathroom break and coffee. It’s was not as busy as last Sunday, but diesel had jumped from $1.79/gal last Sunday to $1.89 today. Ouch!
And less then two hours later, we were parked in our 50 amp site at Colorado River. The ‘C’ and ‘D’ areas are still closed, but “A’ rings are open, and they have a few openings, but you have to call the park directly. You can not do it online.
After a nice nap, around 5pm we headed down to Columbus to have dinner at Whataburger. But as the title says ‘WhataDisappointment’. In fact, if this had been our first visit to Whataburger, it might have been our last.
First up, I think our cashier was trained by the one we had up in Carthage TX this past fall. But he wasn’t trained very well because he was actually worse. Pretty much everything about our order was screwed up.
I ordered a #6 with two patties, cheese, bacon, tomato, pickles, onions, mustard, and mayo.
I got a #7 with ONE patty, NO CHEESE, bacon, tomatoes, NO PICKLES, onions, mustard, and NO MAYO.
Jan order a #6 with two patties, cheese, tomatoes, mustard, ketchup, and grilled onions.
She got a #6 with two patties, NO CHEESE, tomatoes, mustard, ketchup, grilled onions, and LETTUCE SHE DIDN’T ORDER.
Plus we both ordered Large Combo Meals, but got Small. But the surprising thing was the fries.The place was pretty busy, so how did we get old, stale fries. Did they save them just for us?
Both of our orders were made up of lukewarm fries, intermixed those stale crunchy small end pieces. Even the the Spicy Ketchup couldn’t fix that.
Coming home we made a stop at the Brookshire Bros for a few grocery items before returning to the park.
Coming down to the bridge, we got a good look at the recent flood damage.
We were told that the water level got up over the top of the bridge railing, and that’s easy to believe.
In fact the water pressure was strong enough to snap some of the railing mounting bolts, and pull others right out of the concrete.
We’re really glad we were back in Conroe when all this was happening. Even better, the heavy rain for today never showed up. But there’s always tomorrow,I guess.
Later in the evening, I finished up the Ezekiel Transport Wheels within Wheels logo for the new website.
I think it looks pretty good, but I haven’t heard back from the client yet, so I’ll see.
Finishing up, this morning my water pump problem was gone, and it worked fine. So I’ll have to keep an eye on it. I will go ahead and clean out the online filter.
Thought for the Day:
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.†– Otto von Bismark
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Wheels within Wheels . . .
I spent most of the late morning and afternoon working on a new website for a client, trying to get it finished up and online before we travel tomorrow.
I’ve still got more more to do on the wheel logo, but it’s pretty much done. Except as usual, I’m waiting on content from the client. In the past I described this as like pulling teeth. But at least they’re not my teeth.
I’ve still got some more work to do on the wheel logo. I want to completely outline the all the struts in yellow so it will stand out more from the background. I’ve been looking for a way to automate this, but I may end up doing it one pixel at a time. We’ll see.
Later in the afternoon I went outside and stowed away the sewer and water hoses, prepping for our trip back to Colorado River Thousand Trails tomorrow morning I first filled the fresh water tank so we’d have enough for our showers tonight and tomorrow morning.
But back inside I discovered that I had a water pump problem. Or at least I think I do. I’m not getting much flow from the pump, but since shore water works OK and the fresh water tank fills pretty quickly, I suspect the inline filter on the pump may be clogged. But I’ll wait until Colorado River to check it out So for now I went back outside and hooked the shore water back up.
For dinner tonight Jan fixed Crockpot Spaghetti and Meatballs, along with a salad and garlic bread. Really good.
A couple of weeks ago I talked about how they’re finally starting to clear the snow from the Beartooth Highway.
You can read it here – Bearteeth and Landstars. And you can read about our drive along the route in 2011 with our friends Al and Adrienne Cox here:
The Last Time I Was At 11,000 Feet, I Was In A Plane
Well, this video shows how they do it. Check it out.
Thought for the Day:
You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.
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