-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-22-19  08:31 <=-

 > Must have been a relatively dry heat in TX, then...?  Not sure that I
 > would have been very pleased with that sort of heat even so...

 JM> I don't mind heat.
 JM> I absolutely hate cold weather.

I don't mind cold weather as much as very hot weather... particularly
with humidity...    Guess we just are different.... 

 JM> And I don't use a/c in the car.  Its open windows for me.
 JM> The only time the a/c was ever on in either car was when I picked it
 JM> up.  As soon as I got in it went off and the windows went down.

I found that I had fewer problems with allergies when I got a car that
had the a/c... but I tend to not turn it all that cold.... 
 
 >  > Was TX any different from CO and NM....?
 >  JM> Palm trees.  Palm trees everywhere!  
 > Never thought of palm trees being in TX... always thought of then being
 > more CA.... 

 JM> Palm trees aren't really native to CA, at least around LA.
 JM> They are more of a desert plant.

True... so that sounds more like NM and AZ....
 
 >  JM> others in Del Rio and they all seemed to know exactly where it
 >  JM> happened).
 > Hmmm... wonder why they've not fixed a notorious road problem by now... 

 JM> I think repair and tyre shops are in cohorts with the state.  

Could be....

 > JM> The other day I was in Houston and caught in the morning rush.  Six
 > JM> lanes, going the speed limit of 75, being passed by everyone... I 
 > JM> somehow got in a line for an exit and wound up downtown.   
 > How did you end up on the expressway (I'd guess a beltway of some sort?)

 JM> I was on state route 59, which merged along with several other
 JM> highways on the beltway or whatever.
 JM> Texas is really good with signage and painted in the centre of the
 JM> lane was whatever route it was.  Just stay in that lane, unless you're
 JM> like me and manage to get into a line of traffic going elsewhere...

Should have just stayed in the lane, then.... and not worried about the
other drivers... they probably had lots of experience merging into that
lane to get where they were meant to be, so didn't need you to move over
to let them in...

 >  JM> am determined this morning to find the one here in El Dorado, if
 >  JM> I have to drive in with it completely flat.   > 
 > And did you ever manage to track it down...?

 JM> Yep, it was right alongside the road I was on.
 JM> I was told to take it to a tyre place, have it repaired with the
 JM> bill sent to Enterprise.
 JM> It was from a nail I picked up at the border.  Texas has a lot of
 JM> unpaved side roads and I had parked under a tree on one.

Now you know.... 

ttyl       neb

... Murphy's Philosophy: smile -- tomorrow will be worse.

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