Home James

Lord knows what that means, but we are home from our sojourn to Houston, Texas to drop off Anita's VW Bug for the summer and then some. We actually had zero traffic from DC to Houston. It was there, 1.6 miles from the exit to her parent's home, where we encountered the first real traffic. Apparently six cars or so decided it was a great time to have a demolition derby, including one car that managed a 9.6 over the median into the other side of the highway. After an hour or so we finally managed to make it to her parent's place, where we attempted to find their home which included us looking like thieves looking into houses since we had the wrong house number.

It was an enjoyable weekend in the 4th largest city in the country. Which was really odd seeing that there was virtually no traffic when we went into town on Monday. No traffic downtown, then again it was opening day for baseball and it is a HUGE thing for Houston. I mean DC can have traffic any time of the day and Houston, which is easily double the size of DC, didn't have those kind of issues. This is with no big metro system like DC either, of course Houston is constantly updating highways and expanding them as needed. DC on the other hand has seen its population over the last ten years jump somewhere around thirty percent or so while they highways have expanded...two percent, anyone else see this problem?

It was an enjoyable weekend spent with her folks, even if I wasn't prepared for all the wedding questions that came. Not that I had an issue with it, I just wasn't exactly expecting it if you know what I mean. Though we've determined our parents are never allowed to meet, hang out, and have drinks as that may cause an implosion in the space time continuum. They're good, down to earth people who enjoy theater, a good drink, great food and aren't afraid to make fun of you...good people, even if they're Republican. No worries folks, they're the old school Republican, not the crazy ass religious folks.

In closing, try to find me over at Shakesville in the picture