We started the morning very well. Had breakfast, defrosted the fridge, disconnected everything from the trailer and were all ready to roll. Just hit the button, and pull in the slide. Oh! Oh!, the slide wont work. It took about an hour for Dan to crawl around under the trailer and find out that there was an electrical cord wrapped around the slide mechanism. Lesson 1. When you run power to the new shed, you should not rap the cord around the slide mechanism on the trailer.
That was easily solved, so we said our goodbyes and off we went. I was a beautiful drive all the way to San Antonio. The wild flowers are in bloom and these are not just weeds, they are everywhere and in so many varied colours and shapes. They are gorgeous. So we saw the beauty of south Texas and the ugliness of the refineries of South Texas.
Then we hit San Antonio. It was unbelievable. Bumper to Bumper traffic, with delays sitting in traffic for 10 and 20 minutes at a time, with slow downs where we were creeping along at 5 mph. Know what it was? Besides the extreme traffic, there were at least 4 different accidents in San Antonio, Austin, Waco , and in each incident it was a young adult, in the ditch, or crunched into another car or spun out against a guard rail. It finally dawned on us that this was the last day of Spring Break, and all these kids were heading home or back to university. Lesson 2. Never leave the Rio Grande Valley on the last Sunday of spring Break.
So here we are settled into Motel 6 in Denton, with a stiff drink and a Pizza and hoping for a better travel day tomorrow.
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