When Helmut and I drove back to San Antonio to pick up the kids last week, it felt so strange to be making a road trip without any children in tow. Strange, but not necessarily a bad thing. We quickly decided to take advantage of the opportunity...and stop whenever we wanted. I realize that we are the adults in our family and could obviously stop on a road trip anytime we want. But there is something about not having to worry about the kids' reaction or dragging them hither and yon that made it so much easier. So we stopped and stopped and stopped.
We weren't in the car more than five minutes before I realized that I had left my lotion at home and all my "purse lotion" was gone. So we stopped and bought more lotion at CVS. As simple as that, we stopped and ran in and bought more before we even made it to I-10.
Then we spotted a potential muscle car project on the side of the highway near San Felipe, so we u-turned off the highway and turned around to check it out. It turned out to be a dud, but that was when I spotted the Stephen F. Austin cabin. It looked so charming sitting there on the side of the feeder road that I just had to stop. So we did. And I took pictures for as long as I wanted...without anyone complaining. I know, how crazy is that??
We stopped for lunch at the Kountry Bakery and chatted with an old Schulenburg school friend of Helmut's. Then we dropped by another old friend of Helmut's and chatted with he and his wife.
Believe it or not, we stopped two more times before making it to San Antonio (I can't handle a road trip without a Bit O' Honey). Now that I write it all out, we may have stopped a few times to many. It is a wonder we ever made it there. But it was fun to take a trip with just Helmut and I, an exciting glimpse of what we have to come.
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