Our friends El Paso home the morning we left.
I figured to get a few hours in before daybreak and to try to find and secure a camp site well within the confines of sunlight. That was the goal....
We pulled off the highway for breakfast at Ozona, cause we were both starving and were desperate for a bathroom break. I drove past Pepe's because it looked too campy, but we ended up there cause of lack of options.
Thank goodness. We finally got some good local food. My juevos Rancheros were perfect and Skye thoroughly enjoyed here pancakes. Ok not Tex Mex but still prepared well.
We charged on towards San Antonio and the Alamo.
One of the tough things about dyslexia and Skye are museums with so much information in the written medium. She often makes up her own stories to what she is seeing because the reading is so laborious. That is not the best way to learn history. So it has been a God send, the auido tours that are available at many attractions. Otherwise I end up reading aloud to her for as long as either one of us can endure.
Yeah, hearing, viewing and living history.
How is it that even in a super macho state like Texas, our memorials to heros is so homoerotic? Hmmm? Just saying...
A very cool rendering of the grounds of the Alamo. What we know as the "Alamo" was the church which was deep within the original fort and of relatively little consequense at the time, but has become the symbol of the battle by mere virtue that it is still standing.
There it is the Alamo, although the rounded rooftop that makes it identifiable wasn't there when the epic battle was fought. It was added many, many years latter to protect the "landmark" It was a good lesson for Skye about the "truth" of history and how sometimes it is exageratted or ignored.
There was much more to be scene but we were trying to find a campsite, set up camp and make it to Austin for dinner.
En route to the camping ground on a smaller byway, we came upon this farm that bred and raised miniture horses. It was a little surreal.
We did make it in time to set up our tent. We then raced into Austin and had an ok meal, I mean it was better than good, but I know how good food is in Austin, I just didn't have time to do proper research. Particularly because I had somehow forgotten the ground cloth so would have to find it somewhere to buy before they closed the gates on us at 10 pm.
Mission accomplished, we got there around 9:45 and put the ground cloth under the tent. Initially we had the rain fly off as it was ridiculously hot and humid. Around 1:30 am as I awoke to a drizzle I smartly put on the rain fly. Around 3 am as half of it blew off and I was able to reach from within the tent to resecure it, the rain really began to fall.
In the end we kept relatively dry although a bag of mine that had much paper work and mail lay in the path of some of the seepage and became a soggy mess.
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