Houston, TX

We're here...

Technically, we're a tad further south this evening.  We've been moving about 200 miles a day after leaving Steve & Susan at Murray, KY.  A stopover at Little Rock let Donna visit Mary Casebolt.  Good catch up-time, great BBQ and a great visit!  We'll drop by, again.

Today we moved on down to Pearland, TX to visit my cousin Sharon and her husband for the weekend.  The pictures here are of a rest area along US 59 near Seven Oaks, TX where we stopped to eat lunch.  Unusual to visit an interstate style rest area while along an uncontrolled access US highway. As always, I'm captivated by all these little museum style exhibits.

Since getting all our high-end, 4G electronics, this is the first area we've been in that has 4G connectivity.  Updating the Garmin worked really fast - downloading map updates in about 30 minutes.  Thinking, "this is cool!", I started downloading a windows driver to support our 4G phone.  That went a lot slower, so I checked the download speed.  We were getting about 44 kbps.  Wasn't that about what we got with a good dial-up modem in 1999? 

The RV industry always surprises me, too.  Our sewer connections are state of the art, screw-in style that don't require gaskets when screwed into the campground's sewer lines.  So how is it the elbows are threaded so that when they're tighten snugly, the thing points the opposite direction of a normal flow of water from the trailer?  Is there some advantage of the water making a 180 degree turn just as it goes into the sewer drain?  This is the second campground this week we've had this happen.

Anyway, we're here and looking forward to some more great visiting time!  David