Veteran's Day

We got up late Friday and went to a local motel to use their wireless internet. After I dumped a lot of e-mail, my computer could not get the on line connection to work. I couldn’t publish the blog and couldn’t get the e-mail I wanted to keep to transfer to my computer. After failing several times, we returned to the coach for lunch. We had not eaten breakfast, so we were hungry. We split one of the chicken breasts Evelyn had cooked Monday. She mixed it with a packaged rice mix, and it was delicious. We hooked up the car and filled the coach with gasoline at $2.,13. We left for Fredericksburg at around 1;30 and arrived there around 4:30. Evelyn wanted to stay at a campground, so we went to the Ladybird Johnson Municipal Park that has a campground. We had a can of soup for dinner and took showers before driving in to Fredericksburg. We had read that there was supposed to be an event called Art Past Dark. If it was held at all, we did not find it. We walked all over the downtown area, finally landing in one of the many biergartens in this German town. We listened to a performer while enjoying a lemonade and a beer. We met a couple driving a car with a bracket from Payne Motors in Weslaco. When I joked with them about being so far from home, I was surprised to learn that they were farther than I ever guessed--Mexico City was their home. We came back to the coach after finding the location of a dance advertised for tomorrow night and a Lutheran church that we can attend Sunday. The campground provided the poorest cable TV that I have ever witnessed. The reception is poorer only than the channel selection. I can’t even get ESPN so watching the football games tomorrow is out--at least here. I might drift in and out of the biergartens that will certainly have the games on. This town is where Admiral Nimitz is from and we will try to tour the museum tomorrow.