Continued Eating Across Texas – More Friends

My last post was on Thursday.  I left off when Terry was on his way to Seattle after rolling over since 6 AM that morning from flight to flight at the Portland airport.  It was spring break and there wasn’t one empty seat.  He figured Seattle might be a better bet since there were more options  out of there than Portland.  Also, there were better sleeping options at the Seattle airport than the Portland airport since that terminal was open behind security all night and the Portland one was not.   Sleeping at an airport is no fun but we’ve done that plenty of times.  When you’re on standby, it doesn’t make sense to check into a hotel for a couple hours and not continue to roll over.  If you did, you’d probably go to the bottom of the standby list. So, off he went on Alaska Airlines and we were actually lucky on that one too.  I bought the last ticket on that airline and that was just before two other flights to Seattle were cancelled.  Thus, there were lots of standby passengers for the later flight and thank goodness he wasn’t one of them.  He had a confirmed ticket this time.

The saga continued …. he didn’t make the first three morning flights.  No more of that we thought.  Instead of hanging around and hoping for a flight to Dallas, he jumped on board the next Southwest flight to Sacramento.  From there it was a piece of cake getting to Dallas and on to San Antonio on American arriving on Friday at 9:30 PM where I had his limousine (the Jeep) waiting at the curb. 

With flights behind him, he just needed a little rest …. or, maybe I should say a lot of rest to catch up on the sleep he lost.  He was ready to go though when I told him we had plans for a late lunch with great friends, Lyn and Ed and Tina and Jeff. 

 First to show up right behind us was Ed and Lyn. 

We had been with Lyn and Ed in Arizona and with Tina and Jeff in Wimberley.   However, It had been a couple years since the others had been together.   We all had lots to talk about and that we did.  We chatted for hours until we finally decided to surrender our table to other guests.  Great fun!  Great folks! We met at the Mamacita’s in San Antonio.    I blogged about the one in Kerrville here but this one was a little different.   We had a great visit with super people.

Sunday we had another late lunch scheduled.  This time it was with fellow bloggers, Susan and Bob from Travel Bug. 

We had never met before except through each other’s blog but we immediately clicked as we had lots in common – RVs, Travel, Texas, Portland, History, Birds, Plants, Cameras.  Needless to say, we chatted for hours too.  Susan had suggested we meet at The Big Bib BBQ.  Oh my … what a place and they’re hiring!  I wonder if I could work for their food!!

Guess what Bob ordered?

I don’t think we’ve ever been to a restaurant with friendlier staff even when we ate at the culinary institute.  We were even offered free samples of all their food so we could taste before we ordered.  When have you ever had that given to you?  Food was just as amazing as the service.   I did have to Yelp them with five stars …. it’s definitely as good as it gets.

One of the benefits of meeting with folks who have been around an area for a while, is that they have great ideas on what to do and where to go next.  One of the ideas I jumped on was the need to visit the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. I’m also on the hunt for James Michener’s book, Texas.  I’ve heard it’s a must read.

 

I love being in this part of Texas.  Texans are so proud of their heritage.  Being born a Texan is a big thing in these parts.  I may not have been born here but maybe I can get citizenship rights (or, is it bragging rights) because my father was, my grandchildren were and we lived in the Dallas area for many years.  Does that count?

It’s hard to believe we’ve been in this spot over a week now.  Only a few more nights left here and then we’ll be moving down the road again.  Where?  We don’t know yet.  It depends on the weather.

‘Tis life on the road.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?