There and Back Again

18 - 21 Feb. 2018

We got a late start the next morning but we were only trying to get as far as Las Cruces. Once there I was able to clean up the car a little before we went to Nopalitos with Heather's mother and brother and all of his family for the required green chili infusion. It was in an old church and Heather's sister Holly had worked there in high school. It hasn't changed much.

In the morning we got a fairly early start, but not early enough. We were still too far from San Antonio for dinner, so we went back to the Soaring Dragon in Kerrville for some good Chinese, same as late last year. Hotels in San Antonio not on New Years Eve and their 300th anniversary were quite reasonable and nice.

In the morning we ate at Pancake Joes, where Heather had an omelette to rival Butterfields. On the way out of San Antonio we hit the northern edge of the Buc-ees archipelago, then again on the way out of Houston. For those not familiar, they are the king of roadside stops. We had dinner at Parrain's again, just over the Mississippi in Baton Rouge. After dinner we made it to Biloxi. I had snagged a cheap room in the Hard Rock hotel. After a brief walking around tour I can confidently say our hard rock days are behind us, but I appreciate gambling subsidized four star hotels.

On Wednesday we started our last leg back to the boat. No stopover in Tallahassee since Chelsea doesn't live there anymore. We had lunch in Mobile at the completely awesome "Meat Boss". I had what was basically a grilled cheese on sourdough with tomato, with the late addition of a half pound of some excellent burnt ends. Heather had about the same but with pulled butt (because she liked the name). We'll be back.

In Florida we stopped at the Busy Bee truck stop past Tallahassee. They are similar to the Buc-ees, but just not quite the same. We got to the boat well after dark, never really stopping for dinner. Everything was fine on the boat, and it was about 20 degrees warmer than when we left. This was our sixth cross-country trip since August, counting the boat show trip up to Baltimore. Time for more more boating and less driving.

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