Hitting the road, Jack--and other things

Wednesday found us awake around 6, so we got up and prepared ourselves to leave. I drove to the outback and loaded our frozen goods into the cooler. We could not get it closed because of the bags of ice. We had 2 Klondike bars left, so we ate them for breakfast. We were able to leave around 7:30. Before leaving I put a picture of Jesus above the many baskets of plastic eggs. I had previously put up a small note asking, “Does Jesus have anything to do with Easter?” I wanted to add a picture for those who might not know who He is. I had planned to go to Jack-in-the –Box for a breakfast sandwich but Evelyn wanted to wait until later. Of course when later arrived, we were not near a Jack. We ate some of the sandwiches made for our lunch at around 10:30. We had chosen to take a more scenic route, avoiding San Antonio where a festival was had drawn around 70,000 people. We had hoped to see some wildflowers, but the drought has retarded them. The scenic drive took us into the hill country, preparing us for mountain driving in NC. I had decided to begin using our Shell credit card again while we use much gasoline to drive north. We went to a small town called Llano to get some delicious barbecue sauce called Absolutely Mild. I was driving a bit too fast on a county road and clipped a fence with our passenger side mirror beside a cattle guard. We then arrived at Kingsland and were greeted by my cousin, Don Brumleve and his wife Nadine. They had supper of a ham, potato and onion casserole. It was good to see them for perhaps the last time. We went to bed after watching the Cubs/Astros game. Don pitched on the AAA level for the Yankees back in the 50s and knows a lot about baseball and I learn a lot from him. This will likely be the last time we see each other since he is 82. We went to bed at 10.