Yes-we all have! You make everything harder than it needs to be & you can't afford it anyway so why do you try so hard? There are sooo many other, safer, and closer road trips you could do. Come to Dripping Springs & spend TG with Fritz, June, me & others-you're welcome. No drama, easy peasy! Take the logical trip.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 22, 2017, at 11:08 PM, David via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > From David Locklear > > Have you ever had to back out of trip at the last minute after you put your > heart and soul into making trip preparations ? > > I call it the speleo-blues. Or in this case, just the road-trip-blues. > > It is Wednesday night. 10 p.m., and my 4x4 vehicle is packed ready to pull > out of the driveway prepped for an adventure into lower parts of The Sierra > Madres. The ice chest is already loaded and packed. I just have a cot and > some blankets and my boots. I am ready to to see shooting stars fly across > The Milky Way. > > I have 4 new all-terrain tires installed and balanced and locked to my new > junk-yard 18 inch steel rims with lug nut locks. I have test-driven the new > tires 40 miles. That project ended up costing $ 700. > > Meanwhile, my beloved wife arrived safely at the house that she owns in > Monterrey, Mexico all by herself about an hour ago. > > I am now in Arcola at home, sitting on the couch, realizing the reality that > I need to blow off the road-trip and hunker down. I am free as a bird for > the next 88 hours. In my younger days, I would be passing thru Nuevo Laredo > Mexico by 5 a.m. But the wiser old geezer cumurdgeon in me warns me of the > realities if things do not go as planned. Even just a few months ago, I > would have said to myself "ah, to H*'ll with it all, and just drove off > blindly into the wind." > But not this time, the realties of life have beaten me down to be more > cautious. There are just way too many logistical 'what-if" scenarios to pull > out of the driveway. For example, what if I can not get my daughter home on > time ? She is in Arlington and has to be in Arcola Sunday night. > > As far as trip alternatives, > > I would like to watch the launch of the Flat-Earth Research Rocket on > Saturday. I have only been to the Mojave Desert once. Watch that live > on-line if you can. > > Happy Thanksgiving. > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
