Today is a good day to drive! We drove across Amarillo, TX to visit with Will's Navy buddy, Ron. We found him in the same park we had met him in about ten years ago. These two men met fifty years ago aboard The USS Platte. ( Platte made almost yearly deployments to the western Pacific Ocean from 1960 to 1968, including extensive operations in Vietnamese waters and refueling the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) task group off Korea during the Pueblo incident . Platte served with the Pacific Fleet into 1970. She was sold for scrapping on 14 May 1971.) Ron suggested La Fiesta Grande for an early dinner, a great Mexican place. It was fun listening to the stories all starting with, "Do you remember...." We dropped Ron back off at home and met Don, a neighbor. See you again somewhere sometime, Ron. Okay, so check out these drinks that were delivered to the next table!
We arrived in Stonewall hungry so stopped at the Ludwig Cafe for some lunch, BLT and chicken noodle soup. Then we drove over to LBJ State Park and talked with everyone. It felt good to see our friends. We had a big twinge of regret that we were not going to be volunteering; they filled our position as we requested because of our personal situation right now. Time was slipping away and we drove over to Beverly's where our Roadtrek has spent the last 8-9 weeks. It was good to be home! We unloaded the MR and arranged the Roadtrek for travel.
It was late afternoon when we drove over to the rest area. Hungry again we decided to go to Luckenbach. We had called friends Sally and Merril to join us and we met up with Dolly and Bob. The food court was closed for the day so we drove over to Alamosa Springs. The little restaurant near the bat tunnel has great food, good live entertainment on the weekend and great service. We had our muuuugs of buuuuud, homemade chips and juicy burgers. The best was chatting and catching up with friends.
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