Meandering the Country

San Antonio April 28-May 1, 2024 Our departure from South Padre Island was delayed by a few hours when Dick noticed one of the camper tire’s pressure was reading very low!  Of course, it was a Sunday, so our options were limited - call a mobile mechanic or go to Walmart .  Thinking it would be quicker and, undoubtedly, less expensive, we went to Walmart !  Dick carries an air compressor with us, so he hooked it up and got the pressure up to its normal 80 psi (from 29 psi!) and off we went to the Port Isabel Walmart , five miles away.  I’m not sure it was any quicker, but it certainly was an inexpensive repair.  It turned out to be the valve stem that was leaking so it was a matter of getting the tire off and replacing the valve stem.  Other people were ahead of us with their own issues for Walmart’s auto center to solve, so we had a two-hour wait before we got our issue addressed.  We felt incredibly blessed to have discovered and solved the problem b...

April 22-28, 2024 High Tide! I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to simply embrace “Island Time” and get in the groove of the slow sway of the breeze while in South Padre Island!  Maybe the word breeze is a little misleading.  A couple of days had the gentle breeze one typically thinks of.  Other days had a bit stiffer of a breeze.  The weather man on the local news channel had a wind barometer he would refer to.  It used a garbage can for measurement of wind speed – knocked over, in the road, neighbor’s yard, and gone! Never have I ever seen this!  I like a reporter with a little humor!  While we never saw the “gone” wind, we certainly had several “neighbor’s yard” days during our stay.  Regardless of what was happening to the garbage can, the days were low key and delightful! We thought we would give fishing in Laguna Madre a try while we were there.  It is the stretch of water between Padre Island and the Texas mainland.  The sea wa...