Gettin' There

Well, I'm just about to wrap up another long, tiring dash, but it's still been great fun, as always. But now, sitting here in the beautiful city of Austin, I'm ready to put an end to it once and for all and get on into Big Bend and put it to bed. Before I do that, though, here are a few more shots of the trip so far.


Here I am on a run through the University of Texas at Arlington, my old Alma Mater. Nothing much has changed around here that I could see, except for the addition of overhead walkways that, to me, really takes all the fun -- and adventure -- out of getting from class to class.


And here we are now in Austin, where cousin Mary is currently busy building a batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies. The girl does love to cook.


These are Mary's kitties, Cowboy (gray/white male) and Butch (red tabby female). Both are sweet as can be, and just lo-o-ove to sleep with you.


This is a section of the trail around Town Lake that Mary and I took a little hike on today. No, that's not Mary in front of us, it's a Victoria's Secret model I hired just for this occasion. (Ha! Yeah, right, Doug. In your dreams.)


"Hey, hey, HEY!" (That's from Finding Nemo.) This is something we found in the trail in front of us, which took us both by surprise -- a one-armed crawdad. I'm not quite sure how or why he got here, but I threw him back. You see the darnedest things sometimes.


Here's Mary standing in front of one huge cypress tree we came across. This guy has to be eons old.