As bad as the Internet service was in Dallas it is worse in San Antonio. I’ve given up. I’m posting this in my computer and will transfer if I ever get connected.
Before leaving Dallas we spent Saturday (1/30) at the Dallas Convention Center with our budding star friend Ellie Thurston. Ellie tried out for “America’s Got Talent.” She won’t know the results until sometime in April.
It was really a kick to see over a thousand people lined up to have a three minute shot at launching their career. Spectators can’t be in the judging room, but there was ample entertainment as people practiced and gave impromptu performances in the large waiting area. People came in from hundreds of miles away, waited six to eight hours and had one brief shot to impress the judges.
Sunday we left a cold Dallas and headed southeast. We visited trains in Rusk and Lufkin, Texas. Both places had cabooses to add to my caboose gallery. We then set up camp in the parking lot of Sam’s Club in Lufkin. Micki was embarrassed to stay in the parking lot, but after seeing the one RV park in the area she voted for Sam’s Club.
Tuesday we headed south to Diboll, Texas and met with their local museum. This is a small museum that encompasses the towns logging history and railroading as it relates to logging. Saying the museum is beautiful is a great understatement. This small town has a first class facility (Including a train with a caboose.) that any town would be glad to have. The folks in the museum encouraged us to stop by their local library and check into their storytelling program.
The library was another big surprise. Not just a library, but set up to give a warm cozy feeling like you were in someone’s private estate setting. The library was very welcoming and I posed for a unexpected photo shoot in their entrance as I held a copy of the RCC along with their librarian.
Monday evening we arrived in San Antonio chased by the cold wet weather. Folks here said it’s the coldest they have seen in over ten years. We are currently in a super cool RV park. It has got everything you can imagine, except the Wifi is down. They call the place an RV Resort. Cable TV, hot tub, heated pool, play grounds for kids and dogs, and a daily activity program with different events each day of the week. We would stick around longer, but with no Internet service we are going to hit three train museums in the area and then head out.
I have to be in Albuquerque on Feb 10th for a fifteen minute consultation with my doctor. We are planning to leave the trailer in southern Arizona and I’ll fly to Abq., for the day and meet up with Micki that evening.
