Subj : weather
To   : NANCY BACKUS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Thu Jun 13 2019 07:32:54

  Nancy wrote --

>  JM> For the last five days its rained and stormed late afternoon/early
>  JM> evening.
> 
> Wow... what marvelously consistent weather....!  ;)  Did things heat up
> with the rain...?  

  CO was pleasantly warm, in the 80s.
  NM was a tad warmer. 
  TX was in the triple digits, but I loved it.
  It got a little warmer for me when I wandered into Mexico without a
passport, but talked my way of that.

> Was TX any different from CO and NM....?

  Palm trees.  Palm trees everywhere!  

> I trust that you are still having a fabulous time.... :)

  If not for traffic here and there.
  Leaving Langtry, TX (home of Judge Roy Bean: the law west of the Pecos)
I manged to slip off the shoulder somehow, which was about four inches
lower than the pavement and busted a tyre.  (I mentioned that to others
in Del Rio and they all seemed to know exactly where it happened).
   Used that simple small spare and limped into Del Rio, a scheduled stop
anyway.  The rental switched me to another car, and found this has a slow
leak in the right rear.  I've been driving (off and on) over 50 years and
have more problems with tyres this trip than all that time before combined.
   The other day I was in Houston and caught in the morning rush.  Six
lanes, going the speed limit of 75, being passed by everyone... I somehow
got in a line for an exit and wound up downtown.  Traffic there was
peaceful with a top speed of 35, more to my liking.  Then found I was
only a couple of blocks from the road I wanted.
   Texas interstates have a crazy system.  The enter and exit lanes
almost seem to run into one another with only a short distance from an
entry to an exit.  By the time you pull over to let someone on you're at
your exit and have to zip over again.  I think is this is what helps
makes interstate drivers crazy.
  (I also have trouble with someone on my side where I want to turn, get
on/off, etc.  There is always someone there. I could be in the middle of
the desert at 2 a.m. and not another car for 50 miles until I want to
turn and that's when someone will be right beside me.  And don't get me
started on tailgaters.  I'll have someone right on my tail for miles and
miles when they have all sorts of opportunities to pass me.  One day I
had a big black semi on my tail for miles, I could count the fins on his
radiator, and thoughts of the old movie Duel came to mind. ) 
  Stopped for air in some small TX town and after paying $1.50 for air
saw an Enterprise sign with the building tucked behind another and with
one ways streets, do not enter, etc it was tough getting there.  I have
to travel about two miles to get to a building that was a block away.  I
was told in essence to keep filling the tyre till I got to a larger town.
   Yesterday in Alexandria, LA I was checking Google maps for the
direction to the Kent Plantation I wanted to visit and there was a
Enterprise place "not far away".  Never did find it.  I crossed the Red
River three times, up this road, down that one and finally gave up.
   The low tyre pressure light came on yesterday and I am determined this
morning to find the one here in El Dorado, if I have to drive in with it
completely flat.  :)
   Joe
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