HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!
I don't know what time it is, so I won't post it. I do know that I'm at breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Beaumont, Texas, and that's about all I know at this time of morning. I know of know way to gauge the time except that I feel I should still be sleeping -- but I feel like that until about noon every day of life.
I am almost embarrassed to be staying in this Grande Hotel for "free." (Of course, it is "free" in only one sense. I have paid for it in blood, sweat, and tears, months of working the Tri-State market for the past eight or nine years.) At the risk of sounding like Country Girl Come to Town, I will say that the facility is HUGE; this ain't your Murphy, North Carolina, Holiday Inn Express. The lobby has fountains and several seating areas and a couple of glass elevators that go up and down by just pushing a button. ("I got to Kansas City on a Fridy. By Saturday I larned a thing or two! 'Cuz up to then I didn't have an idee Of whut the modren world wuz comin' to!" Remember that song from Oklahoma?)
I digress, which is what I do this early in the morning. Or not.
After finishing breakfast I plan to pack the wagon and drive West toward Austin -- straight through on small roads, cause I ain't tacklin' Houston.
Have a great Fourth of July!
I know I will, because today I see Amity, James, Ruby, and Holden for the first time in months!