Wed, Nov 26... Is Texas Evacuating?

Today started at 8:00 a.m. in Joplin, MO... Our legal clock wouldn't let us start before then, so with a few minutes to kill... the truck got another bath and we were headed south!

This week has been tiring for both of us and you can tell it today. At 94 miles we stop for coffee... 190 miles into our day... we stop and eat... 275 miles we stop again.... by this time we're laughing about stopping so much!

We'll be in MO, OK, and TX today. You definitely know when you get to TX because Texas is a proud state! Everything is huge in TX, they have awesome rest areas, they are proud of their state and display it... and today... they had some awesome traffic jams! 3:00 p.m. approaching Dallas.... check out the traffic! I was beginning to wonder if they were having an evacuation!

Downtown wasn't much better.... in this picture we are approaching "Lovers Lane".... I don't see much love going on here.... an hour later we had traveled maybe 15 miles.... No love at all....

We finally made it just north of Waco, TX and decided to stop for the day. We will take our 10 hour break and maybe try again in the really early hours tomorrow to avoid the traffic.

It's going to be strange not being "home" for Thanksgiving. This will be the first one I've missed in a lot of years. However; if I had to choose between Thanksgiving and Christmas... I'd much rather be home at Christmas.

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed about going to Mexico tomorrow or at least while we're in Laredo this time. If not, that's ok too... we'll be back to Laredo again soon, I'm sure.

Trapper might actually get his safety test completed while we are here. We've received two qualcomm "reminders" that he needs to do this soon!

The last time we were here, he said he couldn't do it because there were so many people in the room and he couldn't concentrate.... I just laughed... this is a man who can listen to FOX News, talk on the cell phone, and read an article on the internet simultaneously.... AND he can tell you what he heard, what he said, and what he read!

Lucky for him he can do the test online now.... while he listens to FOX News and talks on the phone!