I generally have little that needs to get done, both at work, and at home. However, now that I’m back from my little road trip to San Antonio, I have found myself needing to get a lot done both at work and at home. I was only gone for a few days, so it shouldn’t have made a big difference, especially at home. A co-worker of mine, whom I worked with better than my other co-workers, resigned last week, Friday being his last day. I think that, more than my 2.5 day absence from work, is the reason for my being more busy now at work. I’m picking up some of the work that he would have been doing.
The trip went well. We left Thursday evening at about 9:30, and drove almost non stop. I say almost because we did see the memorial in Oklahoma City on the way down. Other than gas stops, that was our only stop. It took roughly 20 hours to get down there. That sounds worse than it was. There were four of us to drive, and we each took roughly 2.5 hour shifts, giving us each about 15 hours to relax as passengers.
While we were down there, we saw the Alamo (kind of a must if you go to San Antone), the Riverwalk, LBJ’s Ranch (Beautiful, and nice to have a tour guide that wasn’t a flaming Lib). We also went searching for a cave that we saw a billboard for. We didn’t find it, but we eventually found a different one about an hour after it closed.
Sunday we went to a HS graduation, our reason for going in the first place. We also went back to the Alamo to see it during daylight, since our first stop was at about 10:00 PM, and to see the IMAX film about the Alamo.
At about 5:00 Sunday, we got back on the road to head home. I was happy to get ahold of Randall Price, the archeologist on the dig that I participated in Israel back in August of ’02. He lives about an hour north of San Antonio, and was fortunate to catch him at a good time to stop in for a visit on the way back.
The trip went well, and I’m glad we took it. If we had it to do again, I would insist on allowing more time. It would have been nice to see Sea World, Schlitterbaun (the Nation’s best waterpark), and a few other sites.
Now back to work….