The Approach

This was the road trip after the last road trip. Dani told me after our last experience driving of driving 1000 miles in a day, that she was done! 'No more. From here on out, we fly.' It really wasn't that bad of trip. We were in Chicago for Thanksgiving, and left at 7am to get back to Denver in 1 day. So, 15 hours, 1 ice storm, and 5 wrecks (none which we were involved in) later she is done with driving long distances. Fine by me.

Then she got a job in Houston. 5th fattest city in the country. I guess I can kissing seeing my feet goodbye. All and all things have been going well: we found a place we can afford, in an up and coming neighborhood, (oddly it's downtown. But that's another entry) I can work from here, and we are out of our lease in Denver.

So we drove down. Another 1050 miles on the car, and my ass. Our dog thinks we have become nomads. In the last month, she has lived in Chicago, Oklahoma, Denver, Frisco, and now back in Oklahoma. We are staying in plush hotel room till we close on our place on Friday, and maybe even till our stuff comes. No one knows when that will be. We though adding a tiny hotel room might be a bit hard on the bow wow.

But we had to get the car down here sometime, so it might as well be now, and together. That way my wife can show off her MP3 player loading skills. Remember mix tapes? It's the same kind of thing, except you aren't restricted to 90 minutes. So let the songs roll. Cake, to Glenn Miller, George Straight to Guns'n'Roses, Fugees to Louie Armstrong. My wife is nothing if not eclectic. We still aren't to the end of her player. We last left off with Meatloaf - Bat out of hell. That was a personal request from me. Great road trip song.

Enough wandering, here's the bullet points:

1. Bella (dog) is with Oma in Oklahoma while we Bella-proof our new place. Besides, her playing with the puppy gets us off the hook for grand kids for a little while longer.
2. Leaving Colorado was a little harder than I thought it would be.
3. Dallas is pretty close to Lawton, OK (where Oma lives). Dallas is a long damn ways from Houston. The road goes on and on. Texas is so big they gave up on naming towns. The just starting picking words at random from a dictionary. "Happy, TX? Smiley, TX? Jolly, TX?" Weren't they all dwarfs?
4. Houston is a long damn way from Houston. We hit the city limits and it was another 30 miles to the city.
5. The Galleria is a cool mall that is in a cool neighborhood built for 5,000 residents and guests. It attracts 50,000 people a day.
6. How is it possible to get stuck in 2 traffic jams on two different highways in 1 hour?
7. My wife is insane over a place called Braums. They make shakes. She loses her mind when she sees a pink ice cream cone on the side of the road.
8. I didn't pack enough clothing. Or I packed all the wrong stuff.
9. Finding the harbor on a Sunday afternoon was the best idea I've hand in years.
10. Right now Houston doesn't seem so bad.

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