Monday.
Heavy traffic from south of Denton, through Waco, Austin, and San Antonio.
Not the roads we usually drive. Too crowded.
We hear we missed a windstorm. We drove through some wind today, but not
the 100mph wind they had back in Colorado.
Stopped at a park just south of San Antonio. What a difference a latitude
makes. We're out of the thirties and have dropped to latitude 29. Single
digit temperatures to the north... some with minus signs in front of them.
Another warm day for us. We're being careful not to sunburn.
This park is called River Bend because it sits on a bend in the San Antonio
River. Nice big horseshoe with grass and trees in the middle. All the
facilities are well above the water level. It's a good thing they are well
above the water level because the water level changes now and then. It
changed recently. The swimming pool is fifty feet above the level of the
river. The swimming pool is now empty except for the mud left in it. The
park guy says this happens every year now. It's the same problem they have
on the Mississippi. The more they alter the watershed and control the
floods upstream, the worse the floods get downstream. You can let a river
flood a little bit all over or you can stop the flooding upstream and make
it twice as bad downstream. The more concrete they pour in San Antonio, the
more water is channeled to the river instead of soaking into the ground, the
more the river floods at River Bend.
The river has receded. The place is back to normal, except for the muddy
swimming pool. The broad park of grass and trees down low has been
refreshed with another layer of fertile silt.
We hear Conner has moved on from "the turtle", and has mastered the
"flip-flop".
Know how kids unintentionally turn themselves in when they're doing
something wrong? When they start talking, they'll announce "no" "no", as
they're playing with something they shouldn't be playing with? Alex says
"bye-bye". When Matt and Kari hear Alex saying "bye-bye" from the other
room, they know it's time to go take something away from him.
Brother Bill asked if the RV sleeping sickness still strikes even when we're
full timing. It does and it doesn't. We do sleep more since we moved into
the motorhome. We get our eight or nine hours. By doing that, we've
eliminated the catch-up factor. We no longer collapse and sleep for twelve
hours on trips. We just go to bed early and get our eight or nine.
