Our all-too-brief weekend foray into the scenic Texas Hill Country ended as we returned to Houston on Monday. Brother Terry and Kimberley came to son Tim's house for dinner that Matt and I prepared with the help of the fantastic Fiesta grocery stores that are like visiting Mexico. What a treat. We had carnitas, chile verde, rice, beans, homemade tortillas, with salsa verde con pina, pico de gallo and guacamole. It was a toss-up between mole verde and chile verde. There wasn't much room left for the key lime pie dessert though.
Tuesday we just had a fun day hanging out at Tim's playing with the kids until time to take Matt to the airport to fly back to San Diego. It seems that the story of my life these days is that I just get used to having my kids/grandkids around, and it's time to leave.
After dropping Matt off at IAH, we headed to Terry's house for a gourmet dinner cooked by Kimberley and overnight. We stayed up too late talking and got off to a late start on Wednesday.
No matter what, I never get much farther than Fort Stockton when we head west from Houston and that's where we ended up again tonight after a fairly uneventful day of driving. Gas has been fluctuating between $2.55 and $2.95.
I can remember not that long ago that you couldn't even get an AOL dialup Internet connection here. Now, almost all the hotels, even the dives, offer wireless. Isn't competition wonderful. They even have a Holiday Inn Express, Best Western, Days Inn, and Comfort Inn here now as opposed to the local non-chain motels in days of yore. Hooray for Fort Stockton. Now, all they need is a canal with some shops along it to compete with San Antonio.
I don't know how far we'll get tomorrow, but we're hoping to make it all the way to Central, Arizona to visit friends.
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