more traveling

Sunday is always a blessing to go to worship. I called Simon and made a date to visit him at 1:00. We then went off to worship, following the map provided by my Streets and Trips program. Today was All Saints Day, observed, when the names of those who died during the past year are read. The actual day is November 1, but it was not a Sunday this year. We also celebrated Holy Communion, being blessed with the assurance of God’s forgiveness by partaking of His Body and Blood. We felt very welcomed in that setting, unlike some other Lutheran Churches we have visited. We came home for lunch and finished the almost eternal stuffed pork chops. By then, we were tired, so I called Simon and postponed our visit until 5. I vacuumed the coach and watched our former boy, Drew Brees, beat Tampa Bay. Then we went to get some paper products and visit Simon. He looked healthy but obviously was not. His house was not very clean, a true bachelor pad. We came home and I hooked the car and filled the water tank in preparation for our departure in the morning. The latest weather prediction is for rain tonight, and we have enough left to do and will get wet enough doing the things left. We had popcorn and watched the Colts play the Patriots. Evelyn is also concerned as to who we can dress as for the Mardi Gras. We will have to continue thinking.
Monday did not bring the rain predicted. We walked around the campground waiting for another motor home to dump its tanks. Then we dumped ours and left for Iowa, LA. I like to stop there for lunch because they have a good Cajun buffet. Normally they have crawfish etouffee on the offerings but not today. We did enjoy chicken and sausage gumbo (very thin on meat but rich in flavor), crab stew, pork and sausage, dirty rice, and bread pudding with caramel sauce. We went to the nearly dead outlet mall and found some bargains on items we “needed”. By this time it was 2:30, and we needed to get to Houston before rush hour. We didn’t make it but almost any hour in Houston is rush hour. We did get off at exit 781 and found a Wal-Mart after a search. We had to turn into a Presbyterian church parking lot because of the traffic and just decided to spend the night there. It is a small church and will probably have no one show up in the morning before we leave. We won’t leave too early, however, because there will be a going to work rush hour then that we want to miss.
We loitered around this Tuesday because I didn’t want to fight the morning rush hour traffic in Houston. We left just before 9 and literally cruised through town. We went to Schulenburg, TX and turned south headed for Shiner. We ate lunch and went to sample the wares and tour the brewery. We also went to buy 6 of the commemorative Shiner 97. I had bought some 96 last year. They plan to make three more years: 98, 99, 100 to commemorate the 100 years of beer from the brewery. We drove from there to the 281 RV park in Bulverde. We had stayed here several times in years past and liked it enough to come back. We may stay here for a week even though it is too far from BSF. We made plans with Tom and LuAnn to meet Thursday to go on a tour of the SAS shoe factory and some lesser known missions in the area.