Saturday, November 22, 2008

Heading for Texas... 11 hours and counting

The car is half loaded. The rest goes in tomorrow morning. We have had a busy week with unexpected events. A plumbing pipe bust. ( got to rebuild a sprinkler box so it won't happen again. That took about two days. The rent check didn't come. I had to drive to Orange County this morning and get it. Between these two events I'm a bit tired.

Two grandkids were going to accompany us to Texas as a surprise, but one got sick, including a fever, the day before we were to leave. So between the parents and kids it was decided it would be best not to go. That give us a bit more room in the car. On the other hand we were prepared for them to come along and the pullout was bittersweet.

On an up note I tanked up with gas in California for $1.85 at Costco. It's been a while since we saw gas below $2 a gallon in Calif. Usually Calif is about $.40 cents above the rest of the US due to higher taxes.

3 comments:

Sarah said...

Hope you have fun! we are sad we won't be there and you won't be here!

April said...

what a bummer someone got sick!!! that would have been a great surprise and such a fun memory...

Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa) said...

We made it to Houston. 1500 miles in 1.7 days. I'm "Busch'd"