as promised, here i am. back in charlotte on june 26. i know you’ll all be excited to see me again….right? 😉 though i should warn any regular readers that i’ll be disappearing again for another 8 days starting saturday as i head to mexico for a week, where internet access will not be a priority…or even available. anyway.
what a whirlwind week and a half! to summarize:
1 trip to the 18th green at pebble beach
1 night in monterey, ca
2 bags of genuine california nuts (pistachios and almonds)
1 box of fresh cherries
3 frantic phone calls to see if the space shuttle might be landing as we passed edwards air force base (we missed it by a day!)
1 night in kingman, az
1,000 cactii in the desert
1 crossing of the continental divide
4,000 feet to the other side of meteor crater
1 night in las cruces, nm
1 3×3 wooden board in the middle of the road
1 very flat tire after hitting previously mentioned board
1 trip to tire store to replace previously mentioned tire
2 miles of walking 800 feet underground in carlsbad caverns
500,000 mexican free-tailed bats in flight
1 very friendly and adopted bat named bernard
1 night in carlsbad, nm
3 laps around the riverwalk
1 night in san antonio, tx
6 flags of texas on display at the alamo
2,400 miles of total driving
1,091 square feet in my apartment
1 trip each to: target, super target, walmart, ikea (!!)
2 trips each to: star furniture, aaron rents, linens ‘n things, state farm insurance
1 new texas driver’s license
4 folding chairs with my dining room card table
4 nights in my new apartment in houston, tx
and now i’m home in charlotte for 3 nights. then mexico. then charlotte. then houston permanently. whew! it sort of makes my head spin, so i’m just living day to day. 🙂
mom’s grand vacation–and my return road trip–was an unqualified success. my apartment in houston is wonderful, i’m slowing beginning to amass a few pieces of furniture to fill it up, i have enough kitchen supplies to get me by for the first few weeks at least, and to top it all off, i am now the owner of the cutest vacuum cleaner known to man. ha.
i took a lot of pictures, but unfortunately i didn’t have internet access set up in my apartment before we left today to come back to charlotte. it will be ready when i return to houston “permanently” in the middle of july, and i promise to post many, many pictures then.
