Yep, I’m getting ready and looking forward for my trip to Laredo.
After all the problems, we are supposed to be four, with me posing as the guide, just because I am the only guy that never, ever get lost. Allegedly. I like to think that I just got pure, raw, huge luck.
Let me develop this theme a little more. A few years ago all my family, including me, went to Houston. Once there, I developed a nasty case of influenza (it was not a common cold, because I was weak and weary for several weeks after that episode) and, somehow, my father, whom was the driver, got lost. I just wanted to go home and sleep, because I had a fever of 39°C, yet somehow I managed to pinpoint in a map how to return to our hotel based on a few odd directions. I was in such a bad shape that I can’t remember what happened that day or the following, save I had to pinpoint in the map another way to go to NASA. I know I’ve been there because I have photos, but I can’t recall that day, I really can’t.
This trip will be different. I expect to finish all my businesses in the first day so I can enjoy the rest of my trip. The plan is very simple:
- Pick some stuff in Laredo.
- ???
- Profit!
There you are. That’s it.
The idea is very simple. After picking up some stuff Lord Feebledick sent to my office in Laredo, we’ll go to San Antonio, take a sightseeing tour of downtown and the Alamo, then shopping at the outlet malls in San Marcos, then to the Houston Space Centre (or Center, as Americans insist to spell that word), then to Six Flags, and then back home. That’s it, perfectly planned, with an extra day just in case something goes wrong, and a Plan B, C and D in case of unexpected events.
We’re already in Plan B, let me tell you all about it. Lady Daisy Margheritte had a problemm with her passport and had to get a new one. In normal circumstances getting a new passport takes just one day, but this time of the year it takes almost five days to get it. So she will get the passport just one day before we star the trip, and in case of emergency, she’ll take the plane the following day. She’ll miss the Laredo day, but that’s not a problem: there is nothing to do there for her, anyway.
All this means, however, that I’ll be incommunicated while in Texas. I will not have a computer on my first two days there (and that means canned articles for those days) and I don’t know if I will get free Internet access (or at least cheap access) the following days, after I get my new laptop. Therefore, I’ll prepare a batch of articles and, if I can, I’ll publish new ones along them.
It will be a nice experiment.
All righty then, see you next week from San Antonio, guys and gals.
Dijo.
An atheist, a freethinker, an engineer, and a good man. He loves to write, but sucks at it. And, of course, English is not his mother tongue, but was learned as a second language.
