LET’S TALK ABOUT…

…Florida and Texas and what they have in common… I want to take a big pair of scissors and cut them off the USA map. (too harsh?)

Florida is pretty self evident…COVID, descantis, red tide.

Texas well ….

I will start with some good stuff. No humidity, yay!! Wind Turbines, lots and lots of them around Fort Stockton.

We saw one of these being transported but was stopped at a light. Very Wow amazing up close.

and the Texas waffle 

The skies, low, huge clouds kept my artistic attention. How do I get that white and gray to merge, what colors should I mix to get the different tones of gray and that peachy pink every once in awhile showing up. Beautiful!

That’s it!

Now the not so nice...

Sorry Becky for this one…

I was really looking forward to seeing San Antonio and Michael was too, even though he’d been there many years ago. It’s interesting to see places you’ve been to and how they’ve changed over the years. So many people told me it was really nice. So we settled into the Marriot Spring Hill Suites then headed to the Riverwalk because of the really nice reviews we read about it. If there was a river it was all dried up. We went on a Wednesday and everything was closed and the streets are filed with homeless. We drove around for a couple of days checking out different neighborhoodss but didn’t see anything we liked.  Also, “ tent cities” under the highways were disconcerting. Unfortunately, the  only word Michael and I could come up with to describe San Antonio was “gritty” and “disappointing”.

Our drive across the state was boring and long ( 3 days of driving with 2 nights of 😴 and listened to a book on CD). No masks anywhere except on us. We ate most of our meals in car or hotels. As Jeffrey said  “we have always been,  and will continue to be overly cautious”.  Very true.

We arrived in Las Cruces, New Mexico and saw lots of masks and friendly people. Our Airbnb was small but very clean. We ate Mexican food in Mesilla, NM where we shopped at the quaint plaza with shops which had mask mandates. We love that! 

AND if any of you are getting tired of my talk about masks you might as well stop reading these posts as that is a very important part of our trip…crossing the country, being safe and staying healthy.

More about New Mexico on our way back as Santa Fe is part of that route. 

Adios from me and Miguel!

PS I love NM, my feet feel good on the ground there.😉