Cracker Barrel for Dinner and Sleep

At Kerrville, TX

We planned on going to Boerne, Texas today…to the Walmart.  Once there, I bought some stuff, and decided to head on to the Rest Area about 30 miles down the road to dump our waste tanks and fill with water.  On the way there I saw that a Cracker Barrel was just 5 more miles down the Interstate, called them, and they said that certainly we could park there all night, just let them know we are there.  I replied, “Oh, we will be coming in for dinner, no doubt about that!”  She laughed.

Today we went through two large cities….Houston around noon, and San Antonio right at 4 pm.  Yep, a white knuckle drive at times, but I have driven through much worse.  Decided not to stop and see my oldest brother Jim and wife Carol (Sorry you all), but we just need to get to Sacramento by Wednesday so that my two sisters and Arny can go to the Sacramento Kings game on Thursday.  We will be sitting with Arny’s mother, getting her to bed, stuff like that.  THEY (Sandy and Arny) do this EVERY DAY, TWICE a Day!!!! (well, Sandy gets a break Monday through Friday due to her real 40 hour per week job)  Yes, taking care of an elderly (the mother is 95 years old) takes a lot of work and dedication…and I love to give them a break anytime we are in the area. 

All is well with the battery system.  I guessed right…that the alternator was expending so much energy to the bad battery with corroded connection, that it did not have enough juice to share with the house batteries other than keeping them around 12.4 volts.  Today when we stopped, the house batteries were up to 12.8  and the engine battery was 12.9.  Of course, over time they drop down a bit…but even after dinner in Cracker Barrel, and having lights on for awhile, our house batteries are still at 12.75, which is great.  Of course, my credit card company texted, emailed and phoned me today wondering about two purchases in the $100 realm at two different Walmarts in two different towns just 27 hours apart…but a text back and an email back fixed that right up!  Actually, I don’t mind that type of call…except if I don’t know the phone number, I won’t answer it.  So that phone call resulted in a phone message, and it was hard to understand until we stopped at the rest area and could listen to it without the noise of the highway.  Perhaps if it wasn’t going through the bluetooth to the radio/gps, I might have been able to understand it better…but that is not as safe doing it that way while one drives.

Tomorrow is going to be a LONG LONG day…we are going to get through Texas, and we have 508 long miles of Texas left…

Pictures?  Well, we have taken a few...maybe in the next post I will share a few...