This post will hardly capture everything that’s happened over the last few crazy weeks, but it’ll have to do.
At the beginning of March, we revisited a campground in Medina Lake TX. This was the place with all the tame deer. I remember thinking it was cool the way they’d walk right up to you, but this year I thought I’d try to restore a healthy fear of human predators:
The whole reason we even went back to this area was for the local dentist, Dr. Martin in Lakehills TX. It is surprisingly hard to find a dentist who is willing to simply clean a family’s teeth, but Dr. Martin took care of us again (she filled a cavity for Carrie last year.)
We finally made it to downtown Austin on Wednesday the 6th. The campground had messed up our reservation and didn’t have a camping spot available until the next day (they comped us a free bookdocking spot right outside the office for the night.)
While in Austin, it was Emily’s turn to take her hard-saved money to the Apple store to pick up a new iPod:
It was great to be back in Austin for my 3rd SXSW.
It was a week of crazy days:
…and crazy nights. I rode Amy’s bike into the evening fray one night just to gawk; I was so grateful to be able to go “home” after a long day and avoid the nightlife.
We discovered (and fell in love with) a real Austin treat: breakfast tacos!
After a week in Austin, we headed to Dallas. Carrie got to visit an old (boy)friend from her elementary school days, and Emily got to do some plane-spotting at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport:
On our way to Mississippi, we stopped in Arkansas to visit Amy’s Aunt Dorotha and Uncle Clennis.
We arrived in Tupelo MS last week and camped at an RV park within walking distance from Amy’s grandmother.
Amy was really glad to be able to spend so much time with her grandmother who we don’t get to see enough. Here are my girls, Amy, Amy’s grandmother, and Amy’s aunt Genia:
While in Tupelo, I made a pilgrimage to Tombigbee State Park. My sister and I went to a summer camp there a couple times when we were kids. I was amazed at how little it had changed since 1987.
We stopped for a night in Atlanta Georgia to catch up with our old friends Kevin and Julie, formerly from Indianapolis.
These are just a few of the states we’ve driven through recently. There might have been others.
We’re now camped again in my sister’s driveway in Greensboro NC (we spent about 5 weeks here in the Fall). It’s starting feel like a 2nd home here.
We’ll be here for the rest of the week, then it’s off to Williamsburg VA…the start of some serious US history. 🙂