Saturday, September 27, 2008

Houston to Alpine in 7 hrs 30 minutes

I do not know how long I will have to write, my sister is on her way here right now. The drive was not that bad. I would not call it fun, but it was different, lot's to look at. I think I'm timed it just right. By leaving at 4 a.m. I was just leaving San Antonio as the sun came up. So the boring part of the drive that I'm used to went by in the dark. I left Houston with half a tank of gas and had to fill up in Boerne (sp?). Made it to Alpine with two bars left. Whew. I got gas in Alpine for $3.79/gallon most expensive yet. Not a problem I budgeted for gas to be at $4.00 for the trip. I have to say to any of my Prius loving family who is reading this, going 85 in the hills brings the Prius back into ranks with other cars. I was averaging 38-41 mpg and you should have heard that little engine on the hills.

I'm sitting in a park in front of a court house with a church playing "Holy, Holy, Holy" to let us know the noon hour has begun. I will update this post more later I'm going to start writing about the drive right now while waiting for Abbey.

I am actually sort of surprised with myself. I didn't get to bed last night until midnight and what sleep I got was filled with anxiety dreams.


I'm not surprised anymore. By the time I got to El Paso I was obviously getting very ill. I barely made it into the hotel room. Fever and then cold. I laid down right away and slept from about 6:00 pm until 10:00 pm then back to bed at 10:30. My throat is killing me, my back hurts but the headache is gone and I feel like I have more energy. Right now I'm not sure what's going to happen. I think I have a fever, but I'm not sure. I may just stay here another night and see how I feel on Monday.

Now back to Alpine. I had a lot of fun. The ranch that Abbey works on is amazing. It was stunning. It looked like something out of Lord of the Rings. Evidently they shoot movies there. We went and visited one of the sets, the Old Mission. This Brooks & Dunn Video was filmed there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNzkrnzvx4

Pictures that I took: http://gallery.me.com/casperey1978/100034

Of course after I left for El Paso things started to go downhill fast.

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