Tuesday, January 27, 2009

From El Paso East



Hi Everyone,

Sorry have been out of touch for a few days. We spent a crummy night at the Embassy Suites in El Paso. The air conditioning quit working and when I was so hot I was driving Jimmy crazy complaining I called maintenance who came up confirmed it was broken and fixed it. Then first thing in the morning the toilet overflowed. Now I was pretty upset especially when they came and fixed it and were suppose to send someone up to clean up but they never showed up. So we forgot the morning showers and checked out. I did complain and they took part of the bill off so that was good at least.
We drove from El Paso to Sonorra a small town about 11/2 hours from San Antonio. Then the next day we drove to San Antonio. We had a great time walking around the Riverwalk and going to the Alamo. Jimmy had never been there so it was very fun. We decided not to go to Austin since we were running short on time to be in Florida by the 12th for the shuttle launch. We decided to come back to Austin sometime when we could do the whole music scene justice by staying for a week or so.
From San Antonio we drove to Lake Corpus Christi where we stayed at the campground you see in this picture. After dark Jimmy spotted five or six javelinas. You can read about them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccary. They are like a big pig but you don't want to pet them they can be very mean. Jimmy shinned the flashlight on them and they left.

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