Starting Mileage: 9483Ending Mileage: 9688
Miles Traveled: 205
April 19, 2008
We left Killeen mid-afternoon and headed for Houston to see Kathy Blattman and her family. The scenery changed from a lot of flat brown stretches to rolling green hills. There was another change...from dry to humid. Dusk was falling nicely with an almost full moon up over the hills. And...if I remember correctly (and I probably will get this wrong) from Kathy's daughter Kylie's science lesson, it was a "waxing gibbous moon". Apparently, our motorcycle was sooo smooth and quiet, no one heard us drive up. For a moment, we thought perhaps Kat went on a quick errand. I looked into the living room from the driveway and saw Kylie's feet sticking up over the arm of the couch so I tapped on the window. Then they all (Kathy, son Daniel and daughter Kylie) came out. What a warm welcome for weary travelers! Mandy--their black lab, did her duty and growled at these two "space aliens" but soon warmed up and romped and played with exuberance. We went out for pizza and yakked. Back at the house, Kat and I looked on-line to see what we could do in down-town Houston the next day, and settled on going to the Museum of Fine Arts to see the Pompei exhibit. We aimed to get up and leave around 9:30am. Kathy gave us a look like, "Oh--suuuuure--I just BET ye're gonna be up that early!"
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