Terrell, TX

7.19.2010

Today we had another easy ride. It was about 50 miles from Dallas to Terrell, and the biggest problem we ran into was that we hit so many red lights. It was really hard to keep our momentum going when we had to stop every half mile to wait for a traffic signal to change. We arrived at the Super 8 Motel around 12:00, where we showered up and headed out to lunch. It was Chicken Fried Steak again, with good old southern sweet tea. I capitalize Chicken Fried Steak because as far as I’m concerned it’s worthy of being considered a proper noun.

After lunch we hung around the hotel for a bit, enjoying the wifi, before we headed over to the State Hospital for dinner. We hung out with a bunch of kids who had had some emotional problems in the past and were in the midst of a rehabilitation at the hospital. I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I was going in, but I had a really great time talking to the patients.

The only bad thing about the day is that at 12:03 PM I had to pronounce my camera officially dead. She lived to the ripe old age of 7 years, and fought til the very end, but I knew that she was slipping away for the past couple days. I’m taking comfort in the fact that I’ll always have the memories we’ve shared together, saved and cataloged in a digital format on my hard drive.

Unfortunately this means that I have no pictures from the past two days. On the other hand, the past two days have taken place in eastern Texas, where there’s not much to look at anyway.