Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Local News - Dallas, TX and Surrounding Areas
This happened two days ago...Waxahachie, TX is about 12 miles south of the RV Park we are staying at...we could see the smoke plume coming from the plant. The wind was taking the smoke northwest so thankfully we could not smell it and therefore were most likely not breathing in any toxic materials. At least I hope we weren't!
Wild fires in the Bastrop, TX area have started up again...we aren't near there, thankfully.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Everything's Bigger in Texas!
Here we are, still in Texas and pretty much at a standstill for the time being.
Since my last post we continued on down the road toward Dallas when I realized that my legs were both swollen and my knee was badly hurting. Unfortunately we were not in a place where we could stop so we searched out a campground that was 3 miles away from us (we had already walked 5 miles south and we had to actually backtrack some, then head west, to get to the place).
You would think that of the thousands of vehicles that were passing us SOMEONE would stop to see if we needed help since I was obviously limping and sporting an ace bandage...but not one did. Besides that one trucker that we met our first day here nobody has offered any help at all.
We did make it to the campground, which is mostly an RV Park with long-term guests, that has a few tent camping sites near the street...where we have been set up the last two nights. The people here are pretty nice but money is running out fast, my knee is still in bad shape, and we're not close enough to the city (or anything, really) to find side jobs to replenish our funds.
As a last ditch effort we offered to work around the campground to cover the cost of our stay here...the manager just got back from vacation last night and we asked this morning...we are still waiting to find out if she can get approval from the owner to do it or not. If the answer is no we will have to hit the road today, injured knee or not, and find a patch of woods we can stealthily set up in for free.
Mike is more worried than I am...most likely because he is frustrated with his seeming inability to take care of me the way he wants to right now. He also doesn't want to put me in a 'bad' situation which is why he has been choosing campgrounds and hotels to bed down in as opposed to random places off the road. I knew when I signed up for this that those were possibilities, however, and I chose to do it anyway.
The way I see it...things will work out...not necessarily the way we expect or even want at the time but the way it's SUPPOSED to. Right now this trip is an unfinished puzzle; not everything makes sense but that's just because we can't see the whole picture yet. With a little patience and perseverence the reasons with become clearer!
So what's bigger in Texas? Bigger problems, bigger pains, and bigger egos that don't allow most of the people here the heart to do anything to help anyone other than themselves. At least that's what we've experienced so far...we hear that things are better the further from Dallas you get but obviously we're not making any distance right now to be able to find out. In time, I suppose...
Since my last post we continued on down the road toward Dallas when I realized that my legs were both swollen and my knee was badly hurting. Unfortunately we were not in a place where we could stop so we searched out a campground that was 3 miles away from us (we had already walked 5 miles south and we had to actually backtrack some, then head west, to get to the place).
You would think that of the thousands of vehicles that were passing us SOMEONE would stop to see if we needed help since I was obviously limping and sporting an ace bandage...but not one did. Besides that one trucker that we met our first day here nobody has offered any help at all.
We did make it to the campground, which is mostly an RV Park with long-term guests, that has a few tent camping sites near the street...where we have been set up the last two nights. The people here are pretty nice but money is running out fast, my knee is still in bad shape, and we're not close enough to the city (or anything, really) to find side jobs to replenish our funds.
As a last ditch effort we offered to work around the campground to cover the cost of our stay here...the manager just got back from vacation last night and we asked this morning...we are still waiting to find out if she can get approval from the owner to do it or not. If the answer is no we will have to hit the road today, injured knee or not, and find a patch of woods we can stealthily set up in for free.
Mike is more worried than I am...most likely because he is frustrated with his seeming inability to take care of me the way he wants to right now. He also doesn't want to put me in a 'bad' situation which is why he has been choosing campgrounds and hotels to bed down in as opposed to random places off the road. I knew when I signed up for this that those were possibilities, however, and I chose to do it anyway.
The way I see it...things will work out...not necessarily the way we expect or even want at the time but the way it's SUPPOSED to. Right now this trip is an unfinished puzzle; not everything makes sense but that's just because we can't see the whole picture yet. With a little patience and perseverence the reasons with become clearer!
So what's bigger in Texas? Bigger problems, bigger pains, and bigger egos that don't allow most of the people here the heart to do anything to help anyone other than themselves. At least that's what we've experienced so far...we hear that things are better the further from Dallas you get but obviously we're not making any distance right now to be able to find out. In time, I suppose...
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