IF IT’S THURSDAY, IT MUST BE TEXAS!

Okay, I’ll admit we’re not traveling so fast that it’s a different day, different state. We are in the state of Texas, which is impossible to cover in our RV in a week, much less a day!

We’re now parked at Lake Conroe in a beautiful RV resort on the lake. It’s just an hour or so north of Houston. The weather has been quite warm, but the humidity has equaled or exceeded the temperature on many of the days. Today when I got up it was seventy degrees, but it’s supposed to drop to 30 degrees by tonight. In fact, it's dropped 20 degrees in the past hour! You gotta love how the temperature can swing that far in one day!

When we lived in north Texas for a couple of years back in the sixties, we used to believe that the only thing between there and the North Pole was a barbed wire fence. The wind blew constantly, and many of the buildings on the Air Force Base closed at 40 mph. so many, many days we couldn’t go to the movies on base or even to get groceries at the commissary. So we hunkered down and watched the sky, which was easy there since trees were few and far between. Occasional tornadoes poking out of that vast sky gave us one frightful experience too many, so we were thrilled when we got orders to go to Hawaii.

Here at Lake Conroe, trees are dressed in all their fall splendor, we have views of the lake, and we’re close to civilization—all things that make us happy. Still, we’ll be heading out as soon as we receive our mail next week. Cold weather doesn’t thrill us at all. We’ll probably stop in the hill country for a couple of days before hitting the highway for the long trek across west Texas.

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Since I may not get another chance to make posts on the portable writing newsletter blogsite (http://www.portablewritingnewsletter.blogspot.com) while we’re traveling, Happy reading, Bountiful writing, and a Wonderful Holiday Season to you all.