Leaving San Antonio, we drove to El Paso to spend the night. It's an eight-hour drive across pretty much barren land on I-10 with an 80 miles-per-hour speed limit. We stopped a few times, but tried to minimize the number of stops since the gear shift handle was misbehaving. It worked just fine some times, then gets stuck other times. We were able to get it out of park every time, but I worried that it would eventually stick and not be able to move. We spent las...

Another three-plus hour drive today got us to San Antonio. We took the route west from Conroe through Montgomery turning south at Navasota to avoid the Houston traffic. It's the best way to go. We have had the gear shift fail to change out of park on the first try a few times during the last few days so we asked Shaun and Yvette to come get us for dinner. They picked us up, and we went straight down Broadway to Fratello's. Good Italian fare with an excellent wait...

This morning we drove down to Conroe from Dallas with only one major slowdown just where I-45 intersects I-20. It took over an hour to go about three miles through a one-lane construction zone. When we got near Conroe, we made arrangements for a time to see Paula. Bill is working so we didn't get to see him, too. Philip and I picked up dinner from Dickey's and took it to their house at 5:00. Paula was standing in the driveway waiting to greet us when we arrived...

Thursday night we spent in Hope, Arkansas. When we got up on Friday, we went to visit Bill Clinton's boyhood home. He lived there from birth to four years old, but was there often until he was ten since it was his grandparent's home. Arriving in Dallas Friday afternoon, we stopped at El Fenix for lunch then checked into The Highland for the weekend. Phil had time to finish grading most everything so we will have most of our time free for the next couple of days...