Day One Schertz to Little Rock AFB

The first day went well, albeit a little long. We planned for eight hours on the road and it ended up being eleven. Oh well, we made it and that's the most important thing.

We decided to go old school and take lunch-fixin's. It's funny, Mae and I both come from Air Force families, and did lots of traveling as kids. Both her family and mine covered a lot of ground on trips, and the only way to

do that was to stop for gas, lunch (usually at a roadside picnic table), dinner, and the motel. So, we decided to do the same thing, uh, except when we were ravenous there was no picnic table in sight so we improvised (we were about 50 miles south of Dallas). We brought bread, pepper turkey, tomato, and lettuce; with assorted condiments.

A short while later, we drove past a spaceship which has a for sale sign in front of it. You'll never know what you'll see in the middle of nowhere Texas.

A while later, around Greenville, TX, where Michael's girlfriend is from, road construction closed one lane and left one open for traffic. Now, I know you've seen the guy who drives like a bat out of hell in the lane that's about to be closed, just so he can get ahead of some of the traffic. Then at the last minute he swerves into the other lane.

Well, we saw a variation of this theme play out and it was quite funny. "The guy" drives past us in the right lane (the one about to close) and another guy about three cars in front of us pulls into the right lane in front of "The guy" and slows down...wouldn't let him pass. In fact "The guy" tries to go around him on the right, but the other guy swerves to the right in front of him and won't let him get by. This went on for a few miles and we suspected "The guy" was really getting mad. After a while, "The guy" drives off the shoulder on the right and goes onto the access road. As he gets onto the access road I asked Mae a rhetorical question, "Do you think "The guy" is going to give "The bird?" No sooner had I said it did we witness the window rolling down and a perfect bird appear. Ahhhh, life in the fast lane.

Oh, by the way, this happened while passing the Almost Heaven ranch!