Having only recently arrived in Texas and despite the fact that many of the places in eastern Texas are within the wet zone, these wet areas are not my favorite places to visit especially during times when it is raining, which I can definitively say is most all of the winter. However, where ever I go in this state, I will have access to nearly all of the state parks due to this state having provided me with a state park pass. At each of the state parks I will visit, I will do so primarily to partake of their hot showers. One of my favorite hot showers is at Falcon state park where I hope to camp for numerous nights so as to also enjoy the fabulous sunsets above the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico.

When I come here to Texas to spend my winter hiatus, I normally spend most of this season at the bottom of Texas, but I do not drive there in the fall season as the bottom is still in hot mode, at least until the first week or so of December. So, I will linger in central Texas until the weather changes to cold.

Too, if, in January, the temperatures become to hot again, I will move further north into Texas to find a more comfortable location. This has happened in prior years, and not with the pandemic causing the air conditioned coffee shops to not allow indoor seating, this will most likely be the case this year as well.

Traversing the state of Texas from the north panhandle southward is the 100th meridian, a line that is called the Climate Divide which divides not only Texas, but all of North America between the dry side west of the 100th meridian and the wet side east of the 98th meridian. In between these two meridians is what I call the Perfect Zone, not too dry, nor too wet.

Since the actual climate divide line has been moving east from the 100th meridian and is somewhere approaching the 98th meridian, my goal in this years visit to Texas is to spend most of my time near to this perfect zone, hovering between the 100th and 98th meridians as much as possible.

Later, when I begin to travel north, I will also move eastward into east Texas which will prepare myself for my journey into Arkansas and Tennessee. Of course, I go to Arkansas to get into the hot water pools in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but this year, I plan on a visit to Tennessee to visit some of my friends there.

Awake, turn on the jammer engine and return to the horizontal to wait for the inside to warm up. When I begin to feel the inside becoming toasty, I rise, dress in my fall blues and drive to the w-mart for a cup of hot. The parking lot is full with drive through traffic so I park in the lot next door and walk inside. Upon returning to the jammer, I climb into the back and use the hot water to make a cup of Daystart and a cup of hot tea. Then, I turn on my computer, connect to the Internet, check com and begin my journal entry for today.

At nine this morning, I drive south out of Sulphur Springs on SH 19 to Canton, then on to Purtis Creek state park, hoping for a hot shower and possibly to overnight. I arrive after ten o′clock, drive up to the entrance booth and ask if there is an available campsite. The ranger responds, We are completely booked for the weekend, so I ask for a day permit and hand her my park pass card. She then prints the permit, puts a piece of tape on it and returns my card with the entrance permit. I drive into the park, across the dam and around to the shower house where I step out of the jammer, walk to the rear, open the lift door and retrieve my shower bag, towel and clean clothes. Then, I walk inside the shower house and get into the really hot water.

After I am done with my shower, I pack out to the jammer and the travel cross country on some back Texas highways first through Eustace, then Gun Barrel City, then on Texas FM roads to IH 45, where I turn south for a short distance to Corsicana. Upon arriving in Corsicana, I turn west on SH 31, drive through Corsicana and continue on SH 31 to Waco. Once in Waco, I turn south on IH 35, drive through Waco on the southbound feeder road until I arrive at a w-mart, pull in, park and go inside for lunch.

I stay inside during the heat of day and after the sun sets, drive to a ff-mart called Taco Bueno for two bean burritos. After eating, I drive to the d-mart, park for the evening and put up my window shades to block the bright light from the parking lot lights.

I read for a little while, continuing with the suggested reading about Christian neutrality, learning quite a lot about the subject.

Wake to a very comfortable morning, dress in my fall blues, empty my garbage into a trash receptacle, and then drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. I will stay here in this city only until about noon, after which, I will drive south a little further to get close to my next destination, Wimberley, Texas and my upcoming visit with my sister Susan next week.

I then stop in Buda, Texas for a lunch at the Cracker Barrel, the same that I always buy here, grilled trout, mustard greens, cole slaw, biscuits and butter with water. I know that the fish is farmed, the vegetables not organic, the biscuits, well you know the rest, and I need to put an end to eating this way, but, more than likely, that will not happen until the paradise begins.

Too, I was thinking about how bad this year has been, the absolute worse of all of these last days, and how I will describe it twenty or thirty years after the paradise begins. Methinks, when someone asks about the toilet paper shortage in 2020, I will just say, Yes, that year was the worst of the last days, we had to drag our butt′s across the lawn. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways, Dodging murder hornets.

Next, I drive further down the IH 35 corridor and finally stop in Kyle, get off of the highway, drive to the w-mart and walk inside for the air conditioning. I remain inside until after the sun sets, then drive down the road to the burger called What for a double meat, double onion burger and drive back to the parking lot where I take up residence for another night and here enjoy the hot meal.

The evening is quite and the full moon shines brightly in the sky above this central Texas city.

Awake to a comfortable morning, drive to the w-mart, go in and purchase a cup of hot, return to the jammer to make a cup of Daystart and then sit inside the jammer to have my breakfast. I try to get online outside but the signal is too weak to stay connected, so I will need to go inside to connect for the meeting, but until then, I will sit inside the jammer and pound keys.

At eleven-thirty this morning, I pack up my computer, walk into the w-mart, set up on a window table, turn on the zoom app and connect to meeting

Awake, rise, dress in my fall blues, step outside to empty my trash and see the near full, but waning gibbous moon at 97 percent and only two hands above the horizon. I drive to the w-mart, grab my computer bag, walk inside for coffee, check com, and begin pounding keys.

I stay inside most of the day and in the early afternoon, I text my sister Susan to ask her if she will be home today for me to come by and pick up my three bins. She tells me that she is going to a doctor at four but should be back by five this afternoon. I tell her that I am in San Marcos and will not leave until then.

At four-thirty, I drive south on IH 35 and stop at an e-mart to check phone prices but there are no sales as yet and will most likely need to wait until black Friday. I then drive to Wimberley, Texas and stop at the ranch to pick up my three bins. Wow, they take up so much room in the jammer. I will have to begin going through the bins very soon. Susan even suggested that I contact my sister Becky in League City to see if I can leave my photos with her.

There are still two items that I have not received, a package of business cards and a replacement visa bank card. I will most likely need to stay in the area for at least another week before the back card will arrive.

I leave the ranch, drive back to San Marcos and park at the w-mart to get online. Later, after dark, I drive to the d-mart to park for the night.

Awake, dress, drive to the w-mart and go inside for coffee, com, and computer. I spend most of the morning watching the circuit assembly. I also call Becky but only get her answering machine.

By noon, I have completed the first of the two videos, taking copious notes both in my notebook and in the margins of my Bible. After this, I drive to the w-mart, park under a shade tree and begin going through the first of the tree bins. I am able to down size two of the bins, removing items for the garbage until I only have enough to fill two bins. Then I call my sister Becky once more but still get her answering machine. So, I drive out of town on SH 21, which is the old Kings highway also known as El Camino Real, and headed for the national forest to a campground near Crockett, Texas and not long after I am on my way, my phone rings.

I answer the phone and it s Becky so I explain to her how I came about to need a place to put my two bins. She goes to discuss it with David and then comes back and says Ok. I thank her and then tell her that I will not be there for a week, maybe two and she is alright with that as well.

I continue to drive east on SR 21 and I pull into Bastrop state park, get a day permit and drive to the rest room for a hot shower, one with really hot water. Because the sun sets early now, since Fall Back, it is now after dark, so I drive back into town to the local d-mart, park and set up to over night here in Bastrop.

Awake with the daylight shining brightly into the jammer, rise, dress in my fall blues, and drive across to the north side of the highway, crossing under the over pass and then pull into the w-mart for coffee, com and computer.

Later this morning, I drive back to the d-mart to purchase some vegetables and then I drive out of Bastrop and continue east on SH 21, the Kings Highway, or El Camino Real, through Caldwell, Bryant, Madisonvill, Crockett, and upon arriving at the Tejas Mission state park to check camping prices and find that it is fifteen dollars a night and decide not to stay.

Next, I drive a little further east on SH 21 and arrive at the forest service road about two in the afternoon when the temperature is in the eighties and quite humid but no rain. I turn right onto FR 511 and drive into the Davy Crockett national forest to the Neches Bluff Overlook where I find a location to camp free in dispersed camping (31.561843, -95.164285). Too, I am out of WiFi range while I am here but will not stay long because I need to drive into a town tomorrow so that I will be able to have internet access to connect to the meeting tomorrow night.

I set up not far from the vault toilet and open up the windows to let the cool breeze in and it is not too bad hear. The view at the Neches Bluff overlook is not bad at all and I can see about ten or more miles across the river valley to the ridge on the north side but there is quite a bit of haze in the valley. I then go to the toilet and upon coming back to the jammer, see an older man walking up to the observation deck. I make conversation with him and he walks toward the jammer, then sets his hand on the edge of the roof so as to brace himself. I comment on his shirt and ask, Then, you are a Bible Reader? to which he answers yes. I tell him, Then I have a question for you? walk to the back and get out two of my short stools and offer him one. He takes it and sits down. After discussing the Bible for an hour, he finally gets up and says that he has to go to the toilet, says good bye and thanks for the Bible discussion.

When he departs, I put away my stools, climb back into the jammer and return to pounding keys. It is about four in the afternoon and the temperature has cooled down considerably. I had wanted to cook a meal tonight but where I am parked just does not lean towards doing that, so instead, I just eat from my canned foods.

I talk with another man who comes up here from the small town, Alto, just to the north who says that his wife has a huge screen tv with all the special features and she sits there and watches the Andy Griffith show in black and white all day long. He just has to get away, comes up here and sits on the deck and watches the sun set, then he goes home for the night. He comments that he thinks that Biden has won the presidential election and I comment that what he does will most likely lead right up into the great tribulation.

Methinks, the new president will begin working towards the One World Government that their party has been preaching and not long after striving to develop this new worldwide government, there will be reason for them to declare Peace and Security (1 Thesolonians 5:3), which is the last prophecy before the Great Tribulation begins. (Matthew 24:21)

Once the world governments declare Peace and Security, then, they will turn on religion and destroy it entirely. Just think, all the churches are already closed and have been empty, some even boarded up, so it will not seem like a big deal when the governments turn on all religion and devastate it. We see this prophecy at Revelation 17:16 where it tells us that the beast (representative of governments) will hate the whore (verse 15, representing false religion; verse 18, a great city having empire over all governments) and completely burn her with fire (representative of destruction)

I am so glad that the elder recommended all the reading material dealing with how Christ′s followers need to keep maintaining neutrality in this last days. Now, I am beginning to see the path that the world will take towards their destruction. Too, I have been trying to tell others, but most do not even want to hear it. The sun sets shortly after six this evening and I start the jammer engine to charge batteries and continue pounding keys, update today′s entry and then have something to eat. After that, I put away the computer and use my phone to read in the Bible before I go to sleep.

I awake early, rise, dress, start the jammer and then prepare to depart. Once all of my gear has been stowed, I drive off of the bluff, back down to the Kings Highway, (El Camanio Real), now SR 21 and stop at the Caddoan Mounds that are on either side of the highway. I was told that the park headquarters was destroyed by a recent tornado and want to see the damage and take photographs.

After driving the park road around to the back, I return to SH 21 and continue northeast to Alto, then further east to Douglas where I stop briefly to photograph the roadside display of the original route of the El Camino Real highway.

Then, I continue east on SH 21 and arrive in Nacogdoches, Texas, turn north on US 59 and drive until I find the w-mart. Here I purchase coffee and sit in the jammer and pound keys. After it becomes dark, I drive to the hw-mart, get online and log into the zoom app for the meeting, which lasts until after eleven this evening.

Then, I leave the meeting, drive to the d-mart and park for the night.

I awake early but wait for the sun to rise and for the d-mart to open. I walk inside to use the restroom and to look for a map book but still have not found one. I remember when I saw one in a gift shop and balked at the price, thinking I can get one a lot cheaper at the d-mart. I have come to find out that so much has changed over the course of the last year with the pandemic, nothing is the same anymore. I leave the d-mart, drive south on US 59 which is no longer a small two lane highway through east Texas, but is not a full fledged interstate highway in many places.

I take the exit for Shepherd, Texas, travel west on SH 150 to Coldspring, Texas, then south on FM 2025 to the state forest recreation area, Double Lake campground, where I pull in, drive to the picnic and swimming area. I get out and talk with the park host who tells me that the park is now a concession operated facility and he says that I can still get half off on camping but day access to the park is seven dollars, even if I do have my senior pass. (This extra fee will lower the rating from five to four.) After talking for a time, I do not camp here, but pack out and drive further south on US 59 to Cleveland, then east on SH 105 to Sour Lake and then Beaumont where I turn south on US 287 and follow this highway to cross IH 10 and further south on US 287 where I stop at a w-mart for some air conditioning.

It is just before six pm today when the evening is fast approaching darkness. I sit here at the w-mart in Port Author, Texas and after a time will drive south on US 287 to the d-mart to park for the night. I plan on staying here in town for the weekend and after the meeting Sunday, I will drive south out of Port Author and look for a state park where I may park for the night and watch the sunrise Tuesday morning.

Awake to a comfortable morning, as it seems to be much cooler here in the Texas coastal lands. I dress, then drive to the w-mart in Nederland, Texas (just a block to the north), park, grab my computer bag and go inside for a cup of coffee, com and key pounding.

After a day of computer, I leave and drive back to the d-mart for the night.

Awake to a warm morning, the clouds that came in last night brought in warm moisture, most likely squalls from the latest hurricane or storm near the Gulf of Mexico. Still, it is not too wet here and as the sun begins to climb into the daylight, there are some patches of blue sky. I drive to the w-mart, walk in, set up my computer, purchase coffee and begin pounding keys.

Then, at eleven-forty, the zoom app opens and I hear the chatter of the friends greeting one another from each ones square. I turn on my video and way to the friends but do not turn on the audio because of there being so much noise about me here in the w-mart. Soon, the meeting begins, a guest speaker from California gives the talk after which Allan conducts the Watchtower study. Lastly, everyone is bidding each one good bye until the next congregational squares.

At three this afternoon, I pack out of the w-mart, drive the jammer south on US 287 to SR 87, then right, and drive southwest for twenty five miles, nearly to the end of the state highway and turn into the Sea Rim state park. I ask the ranger about the campground and find out that there is a cold water rinse shower but no hot shower. Too, the tent camping area is closed and there is only electric sites for $22.00 a night, but I stay here anyway, pay the camping fee and drive into the campground. I set up the jammer in space one, plug into the electric, then grab my camera and walk to the board walk to photograph some birds. There is only grackles and cormorant to be photographed, so I do not stay long before returning to the jammer and setting up my computer and begin pounding keys.

The mosquitoes are horrendous here along the Texas coast and I must keep the windows closed and just endure the warm humid temperature despite there being a cool breeze blowing.

Even though I have the windows closed, there were quite a few that came in when I opened the door to climb inside. With the computer on, they seem to gravitate to the light and upon seeing one, I quickly dispatch them. After a time, it seems that I have bested all those who would venture into the jammer. Later, while sitting inside the jammer, I notice the sun setting, and when I open the sliding window to photograph the bright orange sunglow and a few more enter causing the battle to resume for a short time longer.

I finally win out over the hoards of blood suckers and the finish up on my journal entry for today. Once I have down that, I then upload some of my newly completed web pages to the web site because this state park has WiFi and it is fairly strong. Lastly, I put away my computer, grab my phone and get into the horizontal to read some in the book of Leviticus, after which I put away the phone and close my eyes for the night.

I will not soon come back to camp here at this location, especially since this park has a lot of backwater ponds with still water, the perfect breading place for the mosquitoes. Maybe in the dead of winter, possibly during the first week of January, might be a good time to visit this state park, but without a hot shower, I probably will not even come then.

Awake, dress, grab my camera and walk to the boardwalk deck for the sunrise but the clouds are so thick that there is not a sunrise only an illumination of the sky from dark gray to light gray. I return to the jammer, unplug from the electric service and drive out of the state park thinking, That was a waste! while I drive the twenty-seven miles back to the w-mart in Port Author. Once I arrive at the w-mart, I park the jammer, grab my computer bag and walk inside for coffee, com and computer. It is still very warm and humid outside but icy cold inside the coffee shop and even need to go back to the jammer to get my sweater.

I stay inside all day and work on my web site pages, create a new campground page for Sea Rim state park and more. Long after dark, I pack out to the jammer, drive to the hw-mart, which is right next to the d-mart and park in a space between the two. I check and find out that I can even get the WiFi from the hw-mart at this location, which makes me decide that this will be my place to stay while I am here.

At about eight this evening, I turn off all the electronics and close my eyes.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart, and then go inside with my computer to pound keys until the cows come home. No, really, I stay as long as I can make myself stay seated in the coffee shop, and do not leave until long after it becomes dark.

Then, I drive to the hw-mart park and retire for the evening.

Awake, drive to the local restaurant, sit down and have a free breakfast simply because I am a veteran and have eggs, bacon, hash browns, pancakes and a glass of water, a very traditional meal but one I do not often eat any more. Still, it is free and I do not complain. Afterwards, I drive to the w-mart for a free cup of coffee for the same reason, check com and pound keys until I leave for my lunch stop.

At noon, I drive to the second location and receive a coupon for a free meal good until about a year from now. Now, this is how it should be done, instead of hundreds of people showing up on one day having to wait in line for an hour or more, just to get a seat in an over crowded restaurant and eat a free meal consisting of the worst ingredients any restaurant can put together.

Finally, in the early afternoon, I drive to the next restaurant for a free meal but this one is not my favorite, but I still eat the food. I stop after this one and return to the w-mart to spend the rest of the daylight pounding keys.

At about seven this evening, still full from all of the greasy restaurant food that I have eaten today, I pack out of the w-mart and drive to the hw-mart for the night.

Then, at eight-thirty this evening, I leave the w-mart, drive to the hw-mart, one that I have found has exceptional WiFi service, even in the parking lot and find a space close to the front doors. I set up the computer, dress in my zoom meeting clothes and log on the Oak Harbor congregation with the zoom app and wait for it to begin.

Then shortly after nine, the app opens up and it becomes congregation squares one more time, to which I turn on my video and join by taking my place in one of the squares. The meeting begins soon after and once again, the spiritual food resumes. Like all of the other mid-week meeting that I have been joining since coming into the Central time zone, it is not over until well after eleven this evening. I then say my good bye, turn off the zoom app, turn off my computer and the drive to the edge of the parking lot, and shut off the engine.

However, I do read for a while but not long and then close my eyes.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, drive to US 287, then north a short distance, exit on Nederland road and drive to the ff-mart for a free coffee and a taquito breakfast burrito. With coffee and food in hand, I then drive north on US 287 through Beaumont and I 10 and then north again on US 287 to Crawdads Washateria in Lumberton, Texas where I open up the rear lift door to grab my laundry bag and soap. Then I walk inside to do a load of wash which is $1.75 for wash and $1.75 for dry. Not too bad and really clean. This takes a little over an hour to complete.

Next, I drive through town and east to Village Creek state park, walk inside the headquarters, show them my park pass and receive a day permit for the park. I then drive to the one shower-restroom house, grab my shower bag and some clean clothes and go inside for a hot shower. In fact, the water is steamy hot and I really enjoy putting on the clean one more time.

Since there is not much here in this state park, other than the camping and the great hot shower, and I am done with what I came for, I drive out of the park, south on US 287 and into Beaumont to stop at a w-mart right adjacent to IH 10 and US 90, to very familiar highway from my early years here in Texas.

I sent a text to my sister, Becky and she tells me that they are heading back home. I ask if I can come by to drop off my two bins on Monday and she says, Sure. I then tell her that the last time we saw each other was five or more years ago at the IHOP in Kemah, Texas, and since David paid then, it is my turn to buy.

I begin talking with a man sitting next to me sipping on a cup of coffee, who tells me his name is Clinton, that he is a minister and shows me his certification. I tell him that I am likewise and he asks me what church do I go to. When I tell him that I am one of Jehovah′s Witnesses, he says that he has some questions for me. He first asks me, Is true that you believe that Jesus did not die on a cross? to which I tell him that we believe what the Bible tells us, that Jesus died for out sins and if we believe that he did, we can have everlasting life? He then says, No, I mean that it was not the cross that he died on? I tell him, Yes, that is true, instead, if you look at the concordance, you will see that the Greek work is Staros, which when translated is Stake. He then tells me that he knew about the word Staros meaning stake or pole without a cross member, and that he kind of suspected that it was not a cross. He also asks another question and I show him from the Bible the answer to which he agrees.

Next, I use the Bible to show him that there living for ever does not mean that you must go to heaven. I share with him Psalm 104:5 to show that the earth will be here for ever, then Matthew 5:3 and where Jesus quoted from at Psalm 37:11 to show that the meek will live on the Earth. He is impressed and tell me that he does not know the Bible that well yet but still wants to start a church. I tell him that I can help him learn the Bible with a zoom discussion and give him my business card. He then pack out and leaves the w-mart.

As I sit in the w-mart throughout the afternoon, the sun slowly drops through a large oak tree toward the horizon until at five pm, the vehicles driving on the IH 10 overpass begin casting shadows through the oak and into the w-mart. This flickering from the passing vehicles caused me to have an eerie sense of where I am on this day in the year 2020 and how I am still in this old nefarious system. I so look forward to the paradise to come soon. Next the sun drops down behind the highway overpass and the sky begins to illume with colors. I continue to pound keys while I keep an eye on the western horizon and all too soon, the sky goes completely dark.

I drive through town to the d-mart, part in an outlying area of the parking lot and climb into the back of the jammer to get into the horizontal for the night.

Awake before the sunglow, rise, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart, walk in with my c-bag, set my computer up at a table, and then walk up to the counter to purchase a cup of coffee. I return to the computer and begin pounding keys to write my journal for this morning. I look up and see that the sunglow is just beginning to illume at the horizon and slowly the sky lightens with the few clouds turning pink in color. There is nothing spectacular about the dayspring, especially since I am here in this city, but the colors still gives me something to gaze upon. Shortly after, the sun erupts from beneath and all the colors cease until the next suntouch.

At about nine this morning, I walk out to the jammer, start the engine and move the van to a shady location in the same parking lot. Then, I do thorough cleaning of the interior as well as going through my two bins again to dispose of some additional items and fill up one more trash bag with my things. Doing so now makes additional room in one of the bins and I find more things from the contents of the jammer to put their. After I reload all that remains, I then drive to the restaurant called Der to purchase my favorite meal which is two Polish sandwiches. Methinks, I could eat this meal every day and would choose this over a burger from the restaurant called What every day. But atlas, these hot dog restaurants are so very few and far between, however, I am beginning to find more of the over 350 locations nation wide as I travel.

Next, I drive back to the w-mart, which is just next door to the hot dog restaurant, park, go inside and stay in the air conditioning all day as outside the temperature soars into the 80s for the rest of the day and remains in the high 70 unto late into the evening. I work on some of my older journal entry pages, updating these pages to the latest Year Journey format.

At about nine this evening, I pack out and drive down the street to the d-mart to spend the night. It is still warm tonight but at least, it is not sweating warm.

Awake, lie here for some time, then, I finally rise, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart, and walk into the coffee shop, which because the air conditioning is set so low, I call this store the freezer. It is similar to the locations further south in the valley which also keep the inside temperature extremely low. I purchase a cup of coffee, sit down at my regular table to check com and pound keys. Next, I open the JW Library app and begin my study for the meeting later today. After I finish the study, I pound keys on my computer until the zoom app opens on my computer. Then, I move to the jammer, put on my zoom meeting closes, and wait for the meeting to begin.

Then the congregational squares begin and there is a guest speaker from Bellingham east congregation who gives the public talk after which we do the Bible study. When the meeting is over, I leave the app immediately, start the jammer and drive to IH 10, turn west and spend the next four and a half hours driving to Luling, Texas, then north on US 183, then west on SH 80 to San Marcos, Texas, were I stop for fuel. Then, I travel a short way south on IH 35 to exit 202 and turn west on SH 12 and drive to Wimberley, Texas. Once in Wimberley, I turn west on FM 2325, drive to Fischer Store road, drive up the road to the Wimberley Valley Ranch, turn into the driveway and drive to the shop. Here, I walk into the rear of the shop, lift up my summer camp chest and carry it to the jammer. Finally, I unload the chest into my empty third bin, putting several things into the trash receptacle. Susan comes out to give me a hug and we talk for a short time, during which I tell her that she can have my camp chest. She thanks me and then we put it in back in the rear of the shop. Finally, we give each other one more hug and then she opens the gate for me to drive out of ranch.

I continue out to Fischer Store road and retrace my route back down SH 12, up IH 35, south on SH 80 and east on IH 10 to Columbus, Texas, exit onto SH 71 and drive south to Altair, Texas, turn east on US 90 Alternate, cross the Colorado river where the Altair boat ramp is located but do not stop because I still need to drive to Sugarland today.

I continue east on US 90 alternate, drive through Rosenberg, Texas, then Sugarland, Texas and arrive at SR 6, where I locate the d-mart, pull into the parking lot and turn off the jammer engine for the night. Finally, I climb into the back, rearrange the three bins once again and get into the horizontal for the evening.

Today has been a very long day of driving, about eight hours total and I am exhausted from the many hours pushing the gas peddle.

Awake, lie under the covers and methinks, that was fast, meaning that I slept completely through the night without waking one time, other than this morning. I wait for the alarm to go off, which I currently have set on my phone for six each morning. Then, I slowly get up, put on my fall blues and rearrange the bins for travel. I drive to a w-mart but when I walk up to the door, the sign reads that the store does not open until ten each morning. Wow, I have never seen one of these coffee shops that do not open at five or six every morning.

Leaving the w-mart, I drive to the hg-mart arriving at seven and must needs wait until eight before the store opens, so I get out my computer and catch up on my journal entry for the last two days. At eight, I walk into the hg-mart, purchase some of the items that are usually only in this kind of store and then return to the jammer to continue another long day. I drive southeast on SH 6 until I arrive in Alvin, Texas, left on SH 35, then right on FM 517, left on SH 646 and when I arrive at the Kingdom hall, I pull in and say hello to Dave who is parked in the parking lot. We talk for a few minutes and then I leave to continue to my sister′s home.

I continue east on SH 646, the left on SH 96, right on FM 2094, left on Twin Oaks Blvd and drive to Lago Vista road where I pull into the home of my sister Becky and her husband David. I am invited in and soon, we leave in David′s truck and drive to a restaurant of his choice and have lunch. After we eat, we return to their home, I unload my three bins into their garage and then get out my family album to look at photos with Becky. Later, David begins watching the science fiction movie called Battleship and I join in to watch it with him. After that, Becky and I look at some more photos and then Becky offers for me to stay there for the night. I thank her but then tell her, I am looking forward to the cool night that will be here since the cold front came in.

We share hugs again, and I drive to the d-mart to park for the night.

Awake to a cool morning, start the jammer and drive to the nearby w-mart for coffee, com, and computer. A little later, Gary walks in for his coffee and I tell him hello. We talk briefly but then he goes outside to sit in the nice weather, but I stay inside because the sun is too bright for my computer to sit outside. I continue all day once again, working on one of the seven steps to good health.

At eight-thirty, I pack out, drive to the burger place called What and order a single. Then, I drive next door to the d-mart to eat, connect to the internet and watch videos until after eleven. Wow, what a waste of time, but it was fun.

Finally, I drive to the outlying area of the parking lot and get into the horizontal.

Awake after a very comfortable night, drive to the w-mart to find out that inside dining has been closed by order of the governor because, as it is reported, the pandemic has gotten worse. Too, a sister from Washington said that in her state, the governor did the same thing. I do not find this out until I arrive at the w-mart where all of the tables inside have been marked Closed and methinks, we must be in a second round of the pandemic. I set up outside and find a spot in the shade where there is an electric plug.

I will stay here for as long as the location remains in the shade because when the sun shines upon this spot, it will most likely be too sunny for me to see the screen on my computer. At four in the afternoon, the umbrella no longer keeps me shaded so I pack out, drive to the d-mart to work on the jammer but first stop at the burger called What for a single and when I arrive at the d-mart to eat my burger, the sun is one hand above the horizon. I park in the same location that I have been parking since arriving here but now, I am here to move the new 200X70 tires that are on the front of the jammer to the rear and the 195X65 tires currently on the rear of the jammer to the front. I had the old front 195X65 tires replaced with the larger 200X70 tires with the intent of later rotating them because the larger tires will be better for carrying the load in the rear of the jammer.

I get out my tools, primarily my floor jack and start to lift the front right tire but the jack just no longer has any lift. I then stow my tools, drive to the ap-mart and purchase a bottle of jack oil after which I return to the same location at the d-mart add oil to the jack and then resume the tire rotation. The sun has dropped to about three fingers above the horizon and the sky is becoming illuminated with color and the sun has become a large ball aglow brightly red. I remove the wheel lugs from the front right tire, lift the tire, set the jack stand, remove the tire and roll it to the rear of the jammer. Next, I set the jack under the rear right tire, remove the wheel lugs, lift the tire, remove it and roll it to the front of the jammer.

Next, I install the 200X70 tire on the rear, lower the tire, tighten the wheel lugs, move the floor jack to the front and install the 195X65 tire on the front of the jammer. Once this is done, I move to the drivers side of the jammer and repeat the process. When all four tires have been rotated, I then go back to each and retighten each of the wheel lugs once more. Finally, I get out the hand cleaner and put the clean onto my hands after which I put all the tools back into the rear of the jammer. Once I have closed the rear lift door, I stop and look up at the sky again to see that the sun has set and the sunglow is still quite bright. From the look of the sky, I understand that the tire rotation took just less than an hour and I say to myself, That was not too bad.

I get back in the jammer, turn on my computer and begin updating my journal entry for today. Shortly after setting up, there is a group of trucks that park just in front of me and begin working on one of the truck. The other trucks keep revving their engines and knowing that they will most likely stay here until late, I start the jammer and more to another location.

I work for a time longer and then put away the electronics, get into the horizontal and read in the Bible, going over this weeks reading once again.

Awake during the late sunglow, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, and set up at the same table where I was yesterday. Methinks, my stay here now is the first time that I have been to this location in about two years and most likely will not return any time soon. Dwelling here on the outskirts of this megalopolis is not what I enjoy doing, but will stay here through Sunday so that I may attend the zoom meetings. I choose this location because it is outside of Harris county, the actual location of Houston, but still has all the amenities that are found in a city, w-mart, d-mart, and others. I just contacted my friend Carl, who meets with the Bay Area congregation and find him at work.

Arise, dress in my summer blues, start the jammer engine and drive out of the parking lot, turn west on SH 644 and drive to FM 517 where I turn west and drive to Alvin, Texas, then south on SH 35 through town to FM 1462 turn west and drive through Rosharon, Texas, across the Brazos River to FM 762. I then turn north on FM 762, drive five miles and enter Brazos Bend state park and ask for a campsite but the campground is full. Then, I ask for a day permit, and once I obtain the permit, I drive to the shower house, grab my shower bag and go inside for a steamy hot shower.

After putting on the clean, I drive to Elm lake, walk out to the birding deck and take a few photographs including one of a coot and a great egret.

Leaving the state park, I drive a route southward that I have driven before, back to FM 1462 to SH 36, south to West Columbia, then southwest on SH 35 to Blessings where I take a short cut, first west on FM 618, then south on FM 1862 until it connects back with SH 35, next right on SH 35 across Lavaca Bay to Port Lavaca.

After a long day of travel and now near to my next campsite, I turn left at the first exit onto SH 238 and stop at the Halfmoon Reef Lighthouse for a photograph. I then travel south on SH 238 though Port Lavaca until the highway connects with SH 316 where I turn left and continue to the beach campground.

Once at the beach, I turn north on FM 2760 until I arrive at Indian Point and explore the area. I find one pier with several birds so I take photos of a double-crested cormorant and a brown pelican. Shortly after, when continuing to Magnolia Beach campground, I see a great blue heron, a snowy egret and I take photos of each.

Once here, I stop first at the restroom to find out if there is a shower here and find three cold water shower rooms and one outside cold water shower. Next, I drive a short ways from the restroom and set up at campsite # 11. I then get out my computer and begin pounding keys until the sunset, when I step outside to photograph the suntouch and sunglow. The man camping in the space next to me comes over to ask what I am taking photos of and a conversation ensues about the moon, planet and start that slowly become visible, even with the clouds.

When he leaves to got back to his van, I climb back into the jammer to continue pounding keys.

Awake during sunrise, step outside to photograph the amazing burst of sun rays. Then, I get out my cook pot, set it up on inside of the elevated grill to block the wind, and make a cup of hot and a cup of Daystart. Then, I take my breakfast back into the jammer, uncover the solar panel and then turn on my computer for a day of key pounding.

I leave the window blocking panels down all day to watch my surrounding and see many birds, mostly grackles and sea gulls but also several shrimp boats in the bay.

Awake early, start the jammer, drive to the shower house to use the mens room, and here take a few photos of the sun rise, after which, I drive north out of the beach park, first on SH 316, then SH 238, FM 2433 and finally turn left on SH 35 and drive west to US 181 in Gregory, Texas, drive south across the Lavaca Bay and arrive in Port Lavaca. Here, I turn north and drive to where the highway arrives at the Magnolia beach.

Awake, walk into the d-mart to use the rest room and then look through the mens wear section to purchase more underwear. Then, I return to the jammer and set up my computer and begin to pound keys. Having parked the jammer under a large tree, now the same tree serves as a shade for keeping the heat coming from the sun to make it overly warm inside,

Awake, drive to the w-mart and park in the rear of the store and pound keys until about one this afternoon, after which, I pack out and drive north out of town heading to Lake Corpus Christi state park so that I may take a shower. Too, I would like to stay overnight is the tent camping is still ten dollars per night, but when I arrive at the entrance kiosk, there is a sign stating No Vacancies. So, I just obtain a day permit and drive directly to the shower house, grab my shower bag and go inside for some hot water.

After my shower, I drive to the CCC built building with an overlook deck on top, and here while waiting for the sun to set, begin talking with those whom stop by, Michael and Steven and during each conversation offer them my business card.

When the sky begins to show color, I climb up to the top of the view deck to take a few photos and then drive to the fishing pier and take a few more. Afterwards, I drive back into Corpus and part in front of the w-mart and continue pounding keys. Later, Richard from Hemet calls and we talk for a while. He needs to buy a new computer and asks me which one is best at this time, several of my friend call on me when there is a need for them to purchase new technology because they know that I studied computer in college and was a computer service technician for years. He calls from inside of an e-mart and I help him to decide on which one to purchase. After that, I return to pounding keys and continue here at the w-mart until ten-thirty this evening.

Finally, I drive to the d-mart, park and get into the rear of the jammer to read and then sleep.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, start the engine and drive to the af-mart to fill up my fuel tank and then drive onto IH 69E/US 77 and drive south towards the valley. The highway is at times the IH, but in most stretches still the US highway, and is under construction in several areas. I drive right past Harlingen, Texas on the IH 69E down to Brownsville, Texas to look for some new electronic devices. The clerk tells me that the price is already dropped to the black Friday prices but I choose not to buy and drive to the store further up the valley and check there.

When I arrive at the store in McAllen on IH 2 and when I see that they have all three items that I wish to buy, I ask the clerk to gather them for me and then check out. By the time I have completed the purchase of a new phone, 2 Terabyte SSD external drive and a 128 GB memory card, I am leaving the store just after five in the afternoon. It is just then that I remembered that I wanted to go to a post office to mail a box to Richard, but now it is most likely too late. I drive to the post office any way and find out that it is already closed.

So, I drive to a w-mart, park in the space closest to the WiFi and connect to the internet to check com and upload photos to the website. Also, I set up the new phone and download the apps that I use regularly. I stay here until it is quite late and then drive a short distance east on IH 2 to a d-mart to park for the night. There just does not seem to be very many overnighters here in the Texas d-mart locations.

The store, having already closed is near void of vehicles and then I realize that this is one of the world′s holy days. That is alright with me, as it makes for a very quite night.

Awake lake this morning after a long day yesterday, haven driven down from Corpus to the valley and then shopping for my new devices. Still, the day begins very slow as I drive back to the w-mart for a cup of hot, com and computer. Too, I stay here most all of the day, continue to install apps to the new phone and set it up. My old phone, still quite new will be used as a WiFi hotspot so that I will be able to attend the meeting when I am not in a city, but instead On the Mountain, especially those places without WiFi. I decided to do this because this world is getting so very uncertain, even nefarious, so that I would have a back up plan when I am not able to use the WiFi that is usually provided free in order to connect with the brothers for the meetings.

I know that this will amount to me having an ongoing monthly bill, something that I was so determined not to ever acquire again in this system. However, when I thought about it, first, this monthly bill is for spiritual reasons, and second, I already have set up a monthly payment for my contributions for supporting the activities of Jehovah′s Witnesses. Too, what better way to spend the money that for it to be used for keeping me in the congregational squares.

Some time after five-thirty this evening, the sun sets and a cool wind begins to blow, wow, am I so glad because it makes it seem to be below the current 80 degrees that it is now. Too, the coffee shop close at five, the partners already gone, but the customer keep driving into the drive through so as to acquire their macro-sweet drinks. Then, at seven-thirty, I pack out and drive to the d-mart for hopefully another quite night of rest.

Awake after a quite night to a packed parking lot, dress in my summer blues and drive to the post office to see what time it opens and find it to be eight-thirty. Since it is still an hour until then, I drive to the w-mart for coffee, com, computer sit in the parking lot pounding keys. I also get a cup of hot and make m Daystart Then, at ten, I drive to the post office and mail the package to Richard, after which, I return to the w-mart, continue to pound keys until about six this evening, when I drive to a local Mexican restaurant called Jalisco for a plate of fish tacos, which were quite nice, I would say eight or more on my scale from zero to ten.

After eating, I return to the w-mart for more key pounding. My goal for coming to this area of the city is to acquire my Black Friday purchases including a phone, 2 TB solid state drive, and a 128 memory card to put in the phone, all of which I got Wednesday. Too, I wanted to mail the package to Richard, which I did today. Finally, I want to set up an phone service with which I can use the old phone as a hot spot, but I have yet to hear from the phone service provider. I will wait here until they respond to my several petitions.

Finally, at ten, I leave the w-mart, drive to the d-mart and get into the horizontal.

One more warm and humid night and hopefully, last night will be the last one of these for the rest of my stay here in the valley. I awake, dress in my summer blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com, computer and pound keys most all day. About four in the afternoon, the sky clouds over and it begins to rain lightly and the wind picks up cooling of the day.

I continue with my key pounding, composing two social media posts, one about the Signs of the last days and the second one about the Seasons. During my research for the Seasons post, I found out about a phenomena that I have never heard of before, a Great Conjunction. When I learned about this, I immediately went to the Predictable Phenomena page to come up with an idea to include it under this heading. It does not take me long to devise a new page for this new type of phenomena.

Finally, at seven this evening, I pack out, drive to the d-mart and settle in for the evening. The place here under the large tree has become my regular spot to overnight and this night I hit the bed dry, not a sweat drop anywhere to be found because it is already cool enough for me to pull up the cover over my legs. I fall asleep very fast tonight.

Awake, dress in my falls blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com, computer and to study for the weekend meeting today. At nine-thirty this morning, the congregational squares open up and I see Phillip Tieman and a couple other brothers. I greet Phillip and we talk for a few minutes until more begin to join. Soon, there is a loud chatter of greetings and the squares begin to max out and flow into a second page. Then, at ten this morning, the meeting begins with song and prayer and a quest speaker begins his talk. After the meeting, I stay tuned for a little while and listen to the friends giving out good byes, then, I too, say my good bye and leave the zoom app.

I then change out of my meeting clothes, walk inside the w-mart to use the mens room, then return to the jammer and drive west out of Weslaco, Texas on IH 2, right out of the city to Penitas, Texas, at which point IH 2 turns into a construction zone, ends and continues as US 83. I continue east through La Joya, Los Ebanos, La Grulla and Rio Grande City, all river cities along the Texas border. I then continue west on US 93 through Rio Grande City, then Escobares, Roma-Las Saenz and finally arrive at Falcon Heights, Texas where I check in Falcon county park for an open space, one with water but all of the spaces with water seems to be taken, so I drive to the state park, check in and pay for one night in space number 70.

Next, I drive to the shower house, grab my shower bag, go inside and get under some steamy hot water enjoying every second of this. This is the first of several that I will take while I am here in Falcon state park. After the hot water, I drive to space seventy, set up my solar panels, climb inside the jammer with the windows open and enjoy the cool temperature at the campsite.

It is about three-thirty upon my arrive in the camp site, the sun is two hands above the horizon and the sky is as blue as blue gets here in the Texas valley. I look forward to the Penumbral eclipse of the moon tonight. Methinks, this is a very relaxing day as I look about in the surrounding park and then realize that here, there are no sirens and flashing red lights, no loud, annoying radios blaring, no crazies revving their engines, nor speeding down the street, no alarm horns sounding off and no stinky smells that are so common in the cities. About the only annoying thing here that I have to deal with are the honey bees flying into the jammer looking for what ever they are looking for. In short haste, the sunset begins, first a glowing ball above the horizon, the quickly descending globe below the horizon replete with mountains of the Northern Sierra Madre region.

Then, just as quick as the suntouch began, it is over leaving the sunglow to continued for another while. However, since I know this is the night of the full moon, I immediately turned around and began searching for the moon to rise. The search did not take long as it appeared right above the shower house from where I was taking sunset photos, so I moved a little to the south to put the moon above the trees. I began taking photos of the moon capturing it in the trees, then with the trees below. However, I also know that I am not done with the sunset, so I reversed my direction once again and brought my focus onto the ever growing amount of color in the western horizon, which continued to become darker and darker in hue. After a few more photos, I return to the jammer about the same time the coyotes begin there evensong. As I begin closing up the jammer, the moon goes behind some low lying clouds but in an hour is above them and shining full. Meanwhile, the sun has dropped below the horizon and all color is gone from the lake, then the mountain, and finally from the sky. I climb back into the jammer and now all the bees have gone dormant but there are now a couple of mosquitoes that I hear humming about. I close the windows, shut off the light and wait for any stragglers to be drawn to the light of the computer screen where they will meet my swat.

I resume the key pounding so as to add to my journal entry for today and then keep pounding until late into the evening, until I am tired. I look up at the moon which has risen higher into the evening night and see that it has lost the orange glow that it had when near the horizon. I reach for my camera so I may take a couple more photos of it and it seem to be much clearer now than when lower.

Finally, I put my camera away, turn off my devices, put my bed in order, slide under the blanket and it does not take long for me to fall asleep.

In years past, I would have included the last four days as part of my time sojourning in the valley, however, this year I have decided that since those four days were involved in Black Friday purchases and other endeavors, the sojourn aspect of those days were eliminated to such an extent as to make it feel to me as if I was still in journey on mode. Now, since I have arrived at Falcon state park, the simplicity, solitude and solace have increased exquisitely causing within me the feeling that my sojourn has finally begun.

Awake after sleeping in well past the alarm clock, dress in my fall blues (I love needing to don my fall blues), lock up the jammer and walk to the shower house for a morning sojourn under the steamy hot water. The walk to the shower house on the trail is replete with thorn bushes leaning into the trail from either side of the pathway and even though the building is only a short distance away (about 100 feet), these bushes and their constant attempt to make deadly contact with my body, makes walking to the shower house less likely for me to do any more because during a previous visit, when I stumbled and fell on just a small one of these thorn bushes, I had to struggle for over a year to get control of the fungus infection it caused.

Upon arriving back at the jammer, feeling cleaner than I have been for weeks, I then begin making a cup of hot and my Daystart, preparing it outside on the picnic table. When I have finished preparing my meal, have set it inside the jammer, and just as I have put away the kitchen, I turn to and see a woman walking here small dog down the drive way. I wave to here and say hello, but she stops and says, Don′t I know you, have you been here before. to which I realize that this is the same woman who was a host in 2107 when I had stopped to camp in this same space. We talk for a while, exchanging with each other where we have been and doing and then she leaves with her dog to continue her walk. I then climb inside have my breakfast and work on cropping and setting photos into the appropriate pages.

Then, at noon, I pack out, drive to the headquarters at the park entrance and pay for two more nights here in this state park even though it is fraught with cactus, thorn bush and blowing sand. Methinks, for ten dollars per night, this is still one of the best places to camp in the bottom of Texas.

On the way back to my campsite, I stop again at the shower house for an afternoon stand under the hot shower. After the first wash of my hair, I put some more shampoo in my hand and rubbed it in and the soap lathered up with foam all over the top of my head, which lather I then use to wash my face, neck and shoulders. This is my third shower since arriving yesterday afternoon and the first time I have been able to get my hair to foam up like this. Methinks, finally I am clean, fully clean and it only took three hot showers.

I then drive to the campsite, pull into the space and set up my solar panels and it does not take long to charge up all of my batteries, in fact, the meter stays above 14 volts all day long. Now that I am clean, my batteries fully charged, I will have the rest of the day and all day tomorrow to work pounding key without interruption, which I begin immediately.

During the mid afternoon, a cardinal lands the jammer hood and then begins to spy the windshield as to how this other bird is. Actually, there is little light inside the jammer, so the windows reflect images from the outside, so the cardinal was actually looking at himself and in order for him not to hurt himself attacking the image, I make myself known and he hurries away, well,after I get a few photos.

At four this evening, I step out of the jammer to begin my supper preparations which will be a simple repast with rice, quinoa, seaweed, spices, chopped onion and chopped garlic. When I am finished, I put the food inside, put away the kitchen and also put up my suet feeder in the tree next to the space. I have not eaten the first cup and then the sun begins to begin it′s end of day dance of color so I grab my camera and join in the dance. Too, I hear again the evensong of the local coyotes and pick up my tire iron as I usually do when I am outside in the dark and hear any wild animals. After the sun sets, I climb back into the jammer and continue with my meal and key pounding. After a short time, the full rises about the tree in the east, at which time, I set out to take a couple of photos and notice how cold that it has already become.

Returning to the inside of the jammer, I close all of the windows and resume my key pounding so as to complete my journal entry for today, Then I get into the horizontal to do some reading.

Awake, turn on the jammer engine to warm the inside and stay covered until I can feel the warmth. Then, I dress, unplug the solar panels and drive to the shower house for a morning soak in hot water, relishing in the steamy hot for a long time. After finishing my shower, I drive back to the campsite, reconnect the solar panels and then begin preparing my cup of hot and Daystart. Once the kitchen is put away, I set my meal inside and then climb in, close the sliding door and begin breakfast while pounding keys to record this day in my journal. At nine-thirty, the local roadrunner comes out of the thicket to stand in the sun to warm himself and also he spends time searching for mast to eat.

A short time later, a cactus wren (I had to look in my bird book for this one) flies to the suet feeder and I quickly grab my camera and get two shots before his is gone but only one is good. He comes back a little later and I am able to take a couple more shots. Later, a mother pig and her yearling stroll through camp. Wow, what a nice day for wildlife photography.

I continue pounding keys, cropping photos and loading the photos into the pages and an Indian motorcycle rides slowly by as if looking for a space to camp in. He continues around the loop and then comes around a second time only to stop at space number 67. He dismounts and begins setting up his tent. After he is finished with the tent, I walk by to the rest room trail and then head up the trail to the facility. When I return to the campsite, I see that the tent is buttoned up and he is not around. Immediately, methinks he is inside but when I call out, there is no answer, so I begin walking back to my space only to hear someone call out from across the street. He had gone for a walk and when he arrives back at his campsite, I greet him and we talk for a time and he has been on the road for three month, to which I say, well that beat me, I have only been on the road going into my thirteenth year. He laughs and asks me a few questions about stoves and I offer to show him mine. Of course, I draw him into a conversation about the Bible and he has a lot of good questions, and I tell him so.

Then, at sunset, he excuses himself and heads back to his tent while I finish up cleaning my cook pot, utensils and stowing all of my gear back in their place. Finally, I climb inside the and work on the computer for a short time, after which I get into the horizontal and read for a time before turning off my phone.

Awake, start the engine, disconnect the solar panels, drive to the shower house and get under the water. When I return, I reconnect the solar panels and turn on the computer. Then, I step outside and see Jack sitting at his table and ask if he has coffee on. When he says yes, I ask if there is enough for me to which he says, I have hot water which you can have but I am out of coffee. I grab my cup, coffee package and walk over to his camp site. I make myself a cup of coffee using his hot water and then sit down at his table to continue our conversation from yesterday. We learn about each other, and I occasionally add a comment about the Bible. Later, I leave to go to the mens room and when I come back I climb into the jammer to continue pounding keys. After a time, I tell Jack that I am making another cup of coffee and ask if he would like another cup as well. He says, I will be right over, so I begin boiling the water. Soon, we are both sipping on hot coffee and I am also eating a cup of Daystart. We talk for quite a while and when he does leave, I head to the shower house for one more wallow in the hot water.

After my shower, I continue work on cropping all the photos that I have taken here, of the full moon, the birds, and the sunsets. Then, at one in the afternoon, I pack out, leave the state park and drive east on US 83, continue east on IH 2 and pull off of the highway in Harlingen where I drive to the w-mart, park in a space next to the coffee shop and set up my computer for an afternoon of pounding keys.

Then at nine this evening, I start the jammer engine, drive to the adjacent street and park for the evening.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, walk into the w-mart for the mens room, then a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water, after which I walk back out to the jammer, climb in and have my morning food and hot drink. I checked the WiFi signal in the jammer, as it is parked on the street and sitting about seventy-five feet from the store, and found that I am getting three of the four signal bars here parked on the street. Methinks, this excellent WiFi signal is why I have been coming to this very w-mart since Day 951 BR.

Next, I continue with adding photos and updated pages to my web site, doing this all morning. In the afternoon, I finally connect with the phone service provider and after a couple of hours working with them, I have my spare phone set up as a hot spot phone.

At seven this evening, I connect to the Bay Area Congregation zoom meeting, which congregation is near where I used to be in League City and enjoy being in the congregational squares with the friends there once again.

Then, at ten tonight, I turn off the technology and retire to the back of the jammer to sleep.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, walk into the w-mart for coffee and hot water, return to the jammer to make my breakfast and then enjoy the meal while checking my com and pounding keys. Later, I get a warning message stating that I have used 2.1 gigabytes (GB) of data. I look at the data usage on my app and it says zero used. I call the service provider who says that I should look at my phone data usage, so I then look at the phone settings and find it listed there that I have used 2.1 GBs.

However, what I had forgotten from the last time I used data, maybe ten or more years ago, was that there is need to turn off all of the background data use of all of your apps or the data will be all used up in no time, which is exactly what happened this time. Also like the last time, I did not find out about the background data until all of 2 GB′s of my monthly data was used up, so I then turned off all of the apps that had background data and bought another 1 GB of data for the time being. I will see if this will now last for my meeting connections.

So, due to the loss of the first 2 GBs of data, I will stay here for the weekend meeting to see how much data is consumed during a meeting. If it is more than a GB

I then continue pounding keys until late tonight, after which, I retire for the evening, read some in the Bible, watch a couple of videos and then close my eyes.

Awake, walk inside the w-mart for a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water, return to the jammer and then spill the water inside the jammer. I wipe the water up with paper towels and then drive to the af-mart to fill my gas tank. Afterwards, I return to the w-mart, park on the street, connect to WiFi, check com and then begin pounding keys. In the late morning, Cathy from the Bay Area sends a text to say hello, then later in the early evening, Carl from the Bay Area sends me a text and we communicate back and forth for a time. Then, I just play solitaire for the rest of the evening until I drive to the burger place named What for my supper.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, walk into the w-mart for coffee and then return to the jammer to turn on the computer to get ready for the meeting while I sip on my coffee.

When the time nears the start of the meeting, I turn on the hot spot phone, connect to the zoom app and then monitor the data usage meter on the phone. As I watch as the friends begin to log on to the zoom app and fill the congregational squares, the meter begins to register date that I am using. However, before the meeting actually begins, I have nearly used up all of the 1 GB of data that I had remaining on my plan. This makes me realize that I will need to purchase the unlimited data plan in order to make this hot spot phone work. Also, in order to continue with today′s meeting, I disconnect my computer from the hot spot phone and reconnect it to the WiFi from the w-mart. After the meeting, I leave the w-mart, drive to the d-mart and look for another phone service only to find out that there is no service better than the one I have.

I buy some vegetables and then drive back to the w-mart to await for the morrow so that I can up my service to unlimited. Meanwhile, I pound keys trying to get more of my web site updated with the 2020 update, the one that I have been working on most of this year.

Then, at seven, I look online for one of the battleship movies and find two of them free to watch, so I start the first one, the Iowa, and when it is over, I start the second movie, the Missouri. I have seen both of these movies before, but once in a long while, I will watch them again as they are science fiction which I really do enjoy. Then, at ten this evening, I shut down the computer, get into the horizontal and read with the use of my phone.

Awake, later than usual, due to the movie watching last evening, dress in my fall blues, walk into the w-mart for my regular cup of hot, then return to the jammer to make my breakfast and then enjoy my meal while checking com and pounding keys. When I return into the w-mart for a free refill, I am quizzed as to where I have been sitting, which is such an uncaring attitude by the cashier. Too, methinks, I am so done with this world and all the grief it gives.

I return to the jammer and look for a good movie, but what I have come to find out is that good movie is an oxymoron. I do watch one movie until I become tired of the poorly created plot a turn the movie off and go back to key pounding for a while longer.

Finally, I shut down the computer and get horizontal for the night.

Awake to a very cold morning, turn on the jammer engine and heater to warm up the inside. Then, I dress in my fall blues, drive to the burger place called What and purchase a egg taco and receive a free senior coffee. Once I make it through the drive through, I then get on the highway and head west on IH 2 towards Falcon state park. However, I make a couple of stops on the way looking for a few things and once all my shopping is done, I then continue west on US 83.

I arrive at the state park just before noon, pay for two nights and drive to the campsite, and see that Jack is gone on his motorcycle. So, I drive to the shower house for some hot water, after which drive to my campsite, park and set up three solar panels. Then, I climb in and begin pounding keys and relaxing for the rest of the day. The temperature her is in the 70s and the sky is clear blue. Later Jack arrives and we talk for a short while. He tells me that he has been invited to go to Alaska to stay with some friends who live there. He says that it will happen in January. My comment is that I just do not like the cold any more and instead come here for the winter.

Afterwards, I return to the jammer and resume the key pounding until I receive a phone call of which the caller id says it is Frank Martinez. I answer the call and it is a an elder in Harlingen Airport congregation who invites me to begin attending their zoom meetings. Too, he said that one of the friends told him they saw me in town at the Starbucks. Last year, when I was attending the meeting at this congregation, I was asked by this elder to join his family for lunch after the meeting. That is when I gave him my business card with my telephone number on it.

He then tells me that tonight is the first meeting of the circuit overseer visit and he wanted to invite me to join the meeting on zoom. I tell him, Jehovah so takes care of his people, because I have not been to a circuit overseers visit in quite a long time.

I go on to tell him, Currently, I am camping at Falcon state park on the Rio Grande river and normally, I would not have access to the internet to do that. However, earlier this week, when I was in Harlingen, Texas, I purchased an unlimited service plan for my phone, with which I am now able to set up a hot spot and then use my computer to join the zoom meetings. So, I continue, I will see you on the congregational squares last night.

Then, the daylight leaves the sky and I walk to Jack′s campsite and tell him about the Great Conjunction, point to where it will show up in the sky and then say that I will explain more about it later, most likely tomorrow. I then return to the jammer, set up my hot spot, turn on the zoom app and connect to the Harlingen Airport congregation. It is good to see the friends and recognize many of them, some even give me a greeting.

Afterwards, I shut down my electronics and get into the horizontal for the night.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, start the jammer and drive to the shower house for a wallow in the hot water. Afterwards, I return to the campsite an begin my breakfast preparations. When the food and hot drinks are ready, I put away the kitchen and then climb into the jammer office to have my meal while I check com and pound keys. I get my regular early greetings from Angela in Oak Harbor and later this morning, JoAnn sends a greeting. I respond to both and then, I turn of the computer, step outside and begin working on a couple of chores. First, I empty my kitchen bin, clean up inside of it and then reorganize my food containers while adding food from the pantry into the individual bottles. Once every thing is back in place, I then close up the kitchen and then begin working on changing the radiator coolant.

I drive the jammer up onto the concrete slab, and then using my jack, lift the front right wheel. Next, I begin draining the old coolant, first using the drain cock but not too much of the fluid comes out, so, I disconnect the lower radiator hose and when I pull it off of the radiator fitting, a large amount of water rushes out. When it quits draining, I add a quart of radiator cleaner, then fill the system with water and turn on the engine until it arrives at operating temperature and then let it continue running for about a half hour. Next, I turn off the engine and wait for it too cool down. When it is cool enough to take the radiator cap off, I begin draining the system again, removing the lower hose. After it drains, I fill the system again with water and repeat the running and cooling again. This I do for two more times and finally, I fill the system with a mix of water and new coolant. Then, I make sure everything is tight and back in place, after which, lower the front end and remove the jack, then I put away my tools, and drive the jammer back to the regular parking spot.

Not long after this, the sun sets and soon after that, I look up at the sky and see the two planets about two and a half hands up from the horizon. I then put my hand at arms reach and take my thumb and place them over both Saturn and Jupiter. That makes it a conjunction! I grab my camera and take a photo of the evening sky but can not get a good one of Jupiter up close. Jack comes over to where I am and I show him the photo that I have take, then, he says that he has got to get into his tent for the night. I tell him good night and then I walk back to the jammer, climb in and then finish today′s journal entry.

Awake to find dew had fallen during the night wetting the jammer and other metal objects, which is something that I have not seen before in this location. Even so, that does not eliminate the huge amount of sand that is on everything. I dress in my summer blues, disconnect the solar panels and drive to the shower house for another soak in hot water and when under the hot water, I just bask in the warmth. Upon leaving the hot water, I return to the campsite, reconnect my solar panels and then prepare my breakfast. After the food and drink is ready, I set it inside the jammer and then turn on my hotspot, connect my computer to the WiFi, turn on the zoom app and then connect to the ministry meeting. This would be the first time that I have connected to one of the zoom meetings for the ministry and it turns out to be no different than regular phone witnessing had been prior to the pandemic, so, I am able to make a couple of calls.

After the meeting breaks for lunch at noon, I return to writing my journal entry for today, after which, I resume packing my gear to leave the state park. The last thing to pack is the solar panels, which when they are stowed, I then tell good bye to Jack and drive out the state park. The first place that I stop is at Falcon county park where I look for available campsites. There seems to be several open sites that also have water but all the ones near the rest rooms are taken. Still, it could be doable for me to camp here by using my forest camping mode. I will think more on the subject.

Next, I drive east on US 83, then IH 2 and stop at the Weslaco w-mart, the same one where I had stopped at least once before, park in the space next to the cafe, turn on my computer, connect and begin uploading files to my website.

Awake, drive to the w-mart for coffee, connect to the internet and check my com, then begin pounding keys. Shortly after nine this morning, I turn on the zoom app and connect to the Harlingen congregation ministry meeting. The overseer shows a video from JW.org and then the friends go into the breakout rooms to pursue the form of ministry that they each wish to participate in. After I receive some addresses from Frank, I go into the room for writing letters and begin writing letters to the people in those addresses.

At noon, those in the room return to the main room where there is a lunch time gathering. After I go into the w-mart and purchase a tomato and cheese sandwich and a glass of ice water, I return and join in the meal time. Then, at one this afternoon, I leave the meeting and return to my personal pursuits, primarily, just pounding keys on the computer for the rest of the afternoon.

Then, at seven, I pack out of the w-mart and drive to the d-mart to park for he evening. It is another warm night but this warm will not last much longer because another cold front is headed this way.

Awake, drive to the w-mart for a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water, then walk back to the jammer and prepare my morning meal. I sit in the jammer and wait for the ministry meeting to begin. When I does, I listen to the presentation provided by the overseer. Afterwards, I leave the zoom meeting and spend the afternoon just relaxing.

At seven-thirty, I pack out of the w-mart and drive to the d-mart for the evening. Like yesterday, it is warm but just a bit cooler.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, start the jammer and drive west out of Weslaco to McAllen to go to a restaurant where I enjoy eggs, bacon and all the fixings. After breakfast, I drive to the nearby w-mart, turn on my computer and connect to the internet. I will await here for the Harlingen congregation weekend meeting to begin.

The meeting is very up building and I do so enjoy both the talks and the Watchtower study. Afterwards, I stay good bye to the friends and leave out westward on the river trail back to the campground. It is still quite how today and hopefully, the temperature will drop tonight.

In the late afternoon, I pack out of the w-mart, drive onto IH 2, point the jammer west once again and drive out of the city. I do stop in Penitas, Texas to fill my gas tank, after which, I drive to Rio Grande City and stop at the d-mart for the night.

Up at the crack of late, walk inside to use the mens room and then go to the mens wear department to see if there are any of the swim trunks that I normally wear under my long trousers. I look through the entire department not finding any until I come to a discontinued rack and while walking a circuit around the rack, I see on a lower clothes rod some shorts. When I check for style and size, I do find three my size and blue in color. Wow, I immediately thanked Jehovah for providing all my needs all the time. I then pay for the shorts, a half gallon of coconut milk and a package of crackers. Then, I walk back out to the jammer and continue west on SR 83 and drive to Falcon state park.

I check into the campground, paying for two nights and then drive directly to the shower house for a much needed soak in the hot water. After my shower, I drive to space number 68, set up the solar panels and then climb into the jammer to stay warm. At about ten, I step outside to heat water for a cup of coffee and one of tea and when the hot drinks are finished, I climb back into the jammer and set up my computer so that I can work on a computer generated drawing to use for both the web site and the book series.

I continue working the rest of the day until the sun sets, which is not particularly a good one, but I take a couple photos of it anyway. I then continue pounding keys until nearly ten this evening when I put away the electronics and get into the horizontal to read in the Bible before I close my eyes.

Awake on a couple minutes before the alarm, rise, turn on the jammer engine and set the heater to high. I then plug in my electronics to charge the batteries and begin pounding keys to start my journal entry for today.

It only takes fifteen minutes for the jammer to warm up nicely inside. Then, I disconnect the solar panels and drive to the shower house to get into the hot water. When I am finished with the soak, I return to the campsite, and stop on the road in front of a neighbor camper and say hello, who gets up from the table and walks towards me. I turn off the jammer engine and step out to meet and greet. A conversation ensues and in short time, I direct the talk to Bible topics. We then discuss several thoughts but Russ has several good questions that cause me to retrieve my phone to answer him with the Bible. We continue to talk for over an hour and I am able to share one video with him about Why Study the Bible? I tell him that I would be happy to study the Bible and give him my card. Lastly, I tell him that he can contact me any time if he has a question. Then I get into the jammer, drive to my campsite, park next to the concrete, plug back into the solar panels and resume my work on the migration drawing.

Later, at almost noon, when the temperature rose into the seventies, the clouds that were in the sky earlier have dissipated, apparently having been burned off by the warm part of the late morning. It is amazing how that works here in the desert.

Shortly before the sun sets Russ, my neighbor walks over to greet me good bye thinking that I will be leaving early in the morning but I tell him that I usually stay in the afternoon. We continue our conversation a short time and then he walk back to his camp. Returning to pound on the keys, methinks that I would like to tell him about the great conjunction, but should wait until it is bright in the sky.

About a half hour after the suntouch, I step out of the jammer with my camera and walk to the campsite next to where Russ is camping and sit down on the bench. Then, I call Russ and say, Russ, would you come here, I have something I want to show you. He responds that he will be right there. When he arrives, I point to Jupiter and ask, Do you know what that is? to which he says No. I then begin to tell him that it is Jupiter and that in a few minutes, another planet will also appear just above and to the right. He say, I can see the one above. I look back to the sky, squint my eyes and yes, I can just barely see it as well. I then say to Russ, That planet is Saturn and what is happening is a celestial event that has not occurred for over four hundred years, at which time, I can see his eyebrows twitch while staring at the planets. I go on to tell him that this is a great conjunction, which are actually somewhat common but the closeness that Jupiter and Saturn will achieve is what is the uncommon feature.

After I focus my camera, I am able to get a couple of photos of the conjunction and one of the planet Jupiter with four of it′s moons. We continue to talk, both about the celestial heavens above and about the subject that seems to be most on his mind, the spiritual heavens. Finally, when it is totally dark, we give out parting greeting to each other and then return to our respective campsites for the night.

Although the path that I walk is nearly in total darkness, the night is filled with stars and the Milky Way looms high above creating distinct shadows before me allowing me to return back to my campsite and arrive back to the jammer safely. It is after nine and I prepare for my sleep but use my phone for a short time to read in the Bible. Finally, I shut down my electronics and close my eyes.

Awake before my alarm, rise, dress in my summer blues, disconnect from the solar panels and then drive to the shower house for my last morning shower here at Falcon. I also put on clean under garments so the I will be fresher for a bit longer after leaving here today. Upon my return to the campsite, I plug back into the solar and then set up my tea pot to make a cup of hot. Once, the coffee and tea are done and inside the jammer, I climb inside, turn on the computer and pound keys to catch up on my journal writing.

Then, I set up my bed with the new sheets after which I pack away the solar panels to ready myself to drive out of the state park. At three today, I start the jammer engine, drive by Russ′ campsite to say good bye and then drive out of the park.

I arrive in Rio Grande City just at sunset and methinks that I should stay the night, but I choose to drive further anyway. However, I should have listened to my methinks because the drive into the city was during rush hour traffic, which always stresses me out completely with all of the crazies on the road. I do arrive to the w-mart swerve

I finally arrive in the city, stop at the w-mart and begin uploading the photos and files to my website. At nine-thirty this evening, I drive to the d-mart and park for the evening.

Awake, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer and sit in the jammer in order to be here for the mid week meeting tonight. After pounding keys all day, I look up at the clock and see that the meeting will begin in less than an hour, so I stop what I am doing and begin getting ready for it. When the meeting starts, I take my place in the congregational squares and join in with the worship and education.

After one and a half hours, the last song is sung and the last pray is spoken, then, the friends slowly leave the squares back to there homes. I do likewise and drive to the d-mart for my place to park under the parking lights.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, drive to the w-mart, walk inside for a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water. Then, I return to the jammer, make my breakfast and then begin pounding keys while I eat my Daystart and sip on first the hot coffee and then the hot tea. I continue on drawing the maps that will be used both on the website and the next book, Episode Three.

After another day of creating pages for this book, I stop at eight this evening and pack out for the d-mart. I arrive there, park in my regular space and get ready for a night in the horizontal.

Awake, start the jammer, and drive west on IH 2 until I arrive in La Joya, where I stop for a cup of coffee.

I dress in my blue suite, then drive to the court house and wait for it to open at nine this morning. At nine, I call the number and the clerk says for me to come to the front door and a police officer will escort you to the court. I walk up to the door and officer Salinas invites me in, takes my temperature and then we walk up to the clerks window. There, she gives the officer my file and we walk to the magistrate′s office. After the initial greeting, he asks me how do I plea, and explains my choices, telling me that if I do not contest the case, it will be dismissed and I will just need to pay the fine. I choose the no contest and then he asks me if I want to comment.

I tell him that a truck pulled onto the highway right in front of me and I had to swerve around it to the left and then I pulled back into the right lane after passing it. The officer saw me and gave me the ticket for not signaling my lane change. I then say, the driver of that truck did not have respect for any one else, people just have no respect any more. Myself, I learned respect for others, for authority and for the law in the Marine Corp. The judge looks up and asks, You were in the Marines? The officer there says, The judge was also in the Marines. I answer, Yes, during the Viet Nam war. The judge then says, I am going to dismiss the charge, it will not go on your record and I will also reduce the fine by ninety dollars. I thank the judge and then the police officer escorts my out of the court.

I continue south on US 83 until I reach SH 2098 and turn off to drive to Falcon state park, check in to camp for three days and then drive to the campsite. Upon arriving at the site, I continue to dig dirt from the hole that I had dug last visit so as to level the jammer. The dirt that I dug out from under the passenger side tires, I moved to where it will be under the driver side tires. Then, when I park the jammer along side the concrete pad, the jammer sits level. This will be so much better than previous visits here when I was constantly pulling my sleeping pads back into place.

Then, to check out how well it works, I lie down on my bed to take a nap and not once did the pad slip out of it′s place. I rise from my nap in the early afternoon, turn on the computer and begin pounding keys to update my journal. Shortly before six this evening the sun arrives at the horizon and soon after disappears for the night. I photograph the event and not long after that, begin to photograph the great conjunction. Wow, are these two planets close now. With my unaided eye, Jupiter and Saturn look like they are together. However, with my camera and when I zoom into the planets, I can see that they are still a distance apart.

After seven, I turn on the jammer engine to keep the batteries charged and continue pounding keys for a while longer.

Awake before the suntouch, dress, unplug the solar, drive to the shower house and get into the always welcomed hot water, lingering for some time. Afterwards, I return to the campsite, plug the solar back in and then get out the cook pot to make breakfast. When I had updated my backpack supply bag, I took out several bags of chopped pecans and since then have been using them in my Daystart. I have recently not been buying chopped pecans but have instead have been using almond flour. The added flavor and crunchiness increases the taste of my morning meal, but methinks that it is just because I have not had that flavor for some time that it seem so good to me. I will continue to use the pecans for now even though I have found cause to eat the flour instead of the nut due to small undigested particles becoming lodged in the digestive track.

After eating, I resume work on the web pages, work until the sun is two hands above the horizon and then begin my evening meal preparation. I cut up all the remaining fresh vegetables that I have and add them to my Repast. After I put away my cook pot, I climb inside and spoon out a cup of the meal, add some hot sauce and continue to pound keys while if have supper.

At the sky begins to darken, I take photos of the changing colors, then of the conjunction with the two planets now so close that they are beginning to seem as one light in the night sky. I take many photos of the two planets, both with the lake below and mountains in the back ground but also several where I zoom into the two planets together. What an amazing thing to behold, this creation by the most high God. Finally, I write a post about conjunctions then upload three of my photos to social media with the post.

It is now after nine this evening and I am done for this day, I turn off the computer, spread out my mattress and get into the horizontal to first read the Bible and then begin another nights sleep.

Awake at six and the sky is still dark, so I go back to sleep to await the alarm to go off and rise immediately when it does. The sky is already illuminated on the eastern horizon with great swaths of dark reds and orange color. I dress in my fall blues, disconnect the solar, start the jammer engine and drive to the shower house. Stopping briefly outside the shower house, I again admire God′s handy work, then I walk inside for my morning long soak in the hot water.

After returning to the campsite, enjoying the beautiful colors all along, I begin my morning chores. I plug in the solar, open the rear hatch, get out the cook pot, pump up the stove and add fire to the escaping jetted fuel. While the stove is heating up, I get out my three cups in which I put coffee in one, a tea bag in another and my Daystart in the third, a procedure that I have repeated a countless number of times in the years during the journey on. Next, I fill my tea pot with spring water, put it on the stove and wait the seven minutes for the water to boil. When the water is bubbling out of the spout, I then begin pouring the hot water into the three cups. Finally, I put away the kitchen, move into the jammer office and begin enjoying my meal while I work on finishing my journal entry for yesterday and start the one for today.

It is eight this morning now, the sun is one hand above the horizon and shining into through the rear hatch and it is a comfortable 49° F here inside the jammer. I am still eating my breakfast, a regular Daystart that I have, for the first time in months, added some blues powder to, which I only recently had acquired. I have to admit, the blues powder is my favorite, with not only blueberry but also alai berry powders in the mix, it adds so much sweetness to my food. Methinks, blueberries have been my favorite ever since Saturday, 22 July 1978. After I left Allentown lean-to and had walked back up on the ridge, I found large fields of ripe blueberries where I fill every available container in my pack. Then, for several days, I had fresh blueberries to add to my morning meal. I do so love blueberries.

The rest of the day I spend pounding keys and cropping photos to complete both the Jupiter page together with the Galilean Moons pages and the Conjunction page. I will have to drive into the city, however, before I can upload the photos and pages to my website because I can not connect to the web host with my internet connection even though I can connect to everything else.

It is cloudy all day right up until sunset which eliminates any possibility of more sky photos. Then, shortly after dark, Joanna texts me and I then suggest that we to a video call. After a few minutes using the message app for our video call, I next suggest that we try a zoom connection. I send Joanna an invite to join my zoom meeting and it takes us a short time but then we have that going. A little later, I get a text from Patty, and then I send her an invite as well. Soon, all three of us are in separate squares and talking. We all agree that it was a lot of fun, methinks it is fun but not at fun as when we use to go together out to the pizza buffet in Oak Harbor. At about ten, we say our good byes and leave the zoom meeting.

I then shut down my devices and get into the horizontal for the night.

Awake late this morning, dress in my summer blues, step outside and set up my cook pot to make breakfast. Again today, I use blueberry powder in the meal. After eating, I then walk to the shower house for a hot shower after which I return to the jammer and pound keys until the afternoon when I do some heavy cleaning inside the van. For one, I take some of the painted cabinets and scrub the surface to remove the oil and dirt that has collected. When scrubbing the lid of one cabinet, the one that serves as my office bench, I find out that the accumulated oil and dirt is in fact the top layer of paint that apparently did not adhere to the under layer of paint and it was deteriorating. It was not too hard to scrub off and now the wood is white again. I also scrubbed my office desk top and it looks much better now, however, there is a lot of bare wood, so the entire cabinet should be sanded and painted again, however, that will not happen today.

After putting the furniture back in it′s place, I pack out every thing except for the solar panels so that I can pound keys for a couple more hours. At about four this afternoon, I pack out the solar panels and then drive out of the park. I drive to the d-mart in Rio Grande City for the night and in the morning, will drive into the city to upload web pages and photos. After that I am not sure but will most likely drive back out here to Falcon Heights and stay at the county park.

Arriving in RGC at six-thirty, I see the conjunction above the d-mart and take photos of it, now with Saturn to the right of Jupiter and slightly below. However, because I am in this city, the light pollution is higher here than it was at Falcon and the photos are much dimmer and do not come out as well. Then, I complete my journal entry and at eight this evening, I turn off my computer and get into the horizontal to read for a while in the Bible.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, drive to the ff-mart for a cup of coffee and drive east on US 83, connect to IH 2 and continue east to the w-mart in McAllen, Texas. I pull into the parking lot, park, walk inside and purchase another cup of coffee. Then, I begin uploading pages and photos to the my web site on the internet. Afterwards, I continue working on the Predictable Phenomena for the rest of the day.

The store closes at five this afternoon and some time after, I use my extension cord to connect to the outside power and recharge my computer battery. I stay here until long after the sun sets this evening and continue to work on the web pages and then upload them to the web site.

Finally, I drive to the d-mart, park the jammer, go inside to purchase groceries and then return to the jammer to spend the night parked in the outlying area of the lot.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, walk into the d-mart to use the restroom and then return to the jammer and drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. I spend most of the day creating planet pages, gathering photos of the different planets and their moons. In the process, I am learning quite a bit about the creation called the solar system.

Then, at three this afternoon, I close the website editor and open up my JW Library to begin my study for the meeting tonight. I had already read the Bible reading which consisted of chapters 14 and 15 of Leviticus and deal with the purification requirements for the Israelites. One specific point was dealing with the purifying of women and the study material was in the Insight book on Clean and Cleanness. Wow, what an eye opener, one showing me just how much more I really need to take in just so that I may even come close to qualifying to be in the paradise. But, how so much I do want to become qualified.

When I finish my study, I play solitaire for a time awaiting for the meeting to begin. Then, the zoom app opens and there are two other in the squares and greetings are said. In a short time, the squares begin to increase and then the meeting begins, one which I really do enjoy.

Immediately after the meeting, I leave the app, start the jammer and drive a short distance down the interstate feeder road to the restaurant that I still frequent, hoping to have breakfast here in the morning.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, start the jammer and drive to the front of the restaurant where I stop, get out of the jammer and walk to the front door only to find, Closed on Christmas. I return to the jammer and then drive to the w-mart arriving about fifteen minutes before it opens. So, I leave the jammer running, set up my computer and begin pounding keys. When the cafe opens, I walk in and purchase a cup of coffee and a spinach feta breakfast wrap. Then, I return to the jammer and have my morning meal while checking com and pounding keys.

Shortly after noon, I get a text message from a friend in Oak Harbor telling me of a zoom meeting that will be interviewing a circuit overseer that had come to visit us in Oak Harbor. I then use the ID and password to log onto the meeting and find that there is a ministry meeting currently going on so, I tell them, OK, I will write letters until the interview begins. Then, at one in the afternoon, my time, the interview begins and it is Gus and Laura who had visited us at Oak Harbor in August 2010. I find out that they are now in an apartment at the hall in Malibu, California. The interview lasted about an hour, then the viewers were allowed to ask questions and speak to Gus and Laura.

Gus asked me, Where are you now? to which I answered, in Texas along the Rio Grande river camping. Laura asked, Weren′t you working of a book? to which I said, Yes, now I am on my second one. I really am glad to see the two again. Also, during the interview, Gus made a comment on how close Jehovah′s people are, saying that there is nothing else like it anywhere. Yes, I do so love this wonderful brotherhood, it is the best.

Afterwards, I continue finishing up the Planet′s page together with all the links to the separate pages and then upload the completed files to the web site. Then, I drive to the restaurant once again with the hope of it being open in the morning, park in the back and retire for the evening.

Awake, not as cold as yesterday morning, dress in my fall blues, drive to the front of the restaurant and park near the front door, grab my mask and money bag, and then walk inside for an old timer breakfast with all the fixings. Yes, to get a breakfast like this for less than nine dollars can not be found anywhere else but at this place and is the reason why I come to this chain nearly once a month for a morning meal. After eating, I return to the jammer, drive west on IH 2, then US 83 continue all the way back to Falcon state park where I pay for three nights.

Then, I drive to campsite 68 to resume my encampment at Falcon, pull into the same location where I had dug holes for the right tires and piles the dirt into mounds for the left side so that the jammer would sit level for when I sleep. Next, I set up the solar panels, turn on the WiFi and check my com for today for the first time. I am still not able to connect to my website server with my new WiFi service and I am not sure why, every thing else is connecting. Later in the afternoon, I want to lie down for a nap, but the roadrunner strolls by and by the time I am done taking photos, the sun is less than one hand from the horizon. No nap for me today. When the sun reaches the horizon, I grab my camera, step outside and begin snapping photos of an absolutely clear sky with the sun dropping down on the mountains in Mexico. After a little while, I begin looking for Jupiter.

When I see the big planet, it is not long after until I can get my lenses focused on it and also see Saturn, quite a distance below and somewhat to the right, but still in conjunction. However, when I zoom in on Jupiter to view its moons, Saturn leaves the picture. I do not take too many photos of the two and they both seem to be dimmer now since the moon is now gibbous.

Returning to inside the jammer, I then turn the computer back on and pound keys until about eight

Awake, dress in my fall blues, step outside to unplug the solar and see that the dayspring has just begun with a slight glow in the east and barely lighting the horizon. Venus is about two hands above the horizon and very large, even full circle due to the fact that Venus is approaching superior conjunction with the sun in it′s orbit.

I then drive to the shower house for a morning shower, finishing and returning to the campsite before long the suntouch which occurs at 7:21 this morning. By seven-forty, I am back inside the jammer with hot food and drink to begin recording the start of this day in my journal.

Then, at eight-thirty, I begin my study for the meeting later this morning only when arriving at on the zoom app for the ten o′clock morning meeting, that it is not until one this afternoon, They tell me that there is a ministry meeting going on now and I tell them that I will join them and write some letters. After two hours, I leave this meeting and have something to eat before the afternoon meeting begins. I also connect to the Oak Harbor weekend meeting at eleven-fifty, my time and visit with the friends there until my connection becomes unstable and I am dropped.

Later, I show back up on the Harlingen zoom app about fifteen meeting before it starts and connect with the friends, listen to the public talk and go through the entire Watchtower study. Afterwards, I disconnect from the zoom meetings for the day and begin working on Episode Three until just before the sun sets, when I stop, take some photos and then return to the jammer for another hour or so of pounding keys.

At seven this evening, I am totally done in and decide to stop the key pounding and get into the horizontal to read and watch some videos

Arise, dress in my summer blues, drive to the shower house and take my third soak in hot water since this encampment began Saturday afternoon. I finish there, return to the campsite, plug in the solar and then climb into the jammer to turn on the computer and begin my journal for today. Once my journal is caught up, I return to my work on Episode Three, now in the days of Lamech the servant of the most high God.

At about four this afternoon, I begin thinking about eating supper and when I step out side to prepare my supper, the wind is blowing so strong that it would be hard if not impossible to cook with my stove. So, I return the vegetable to my food storage and instead, get out a quart of bone broth to drink. Actually, I had got it out to heat in the cook pot as the liquid for my meal. Instead, I just drink it from the carton. Too, the wind becomes very strong after dark, I have to step outside and secure my solar panels by laying them on the concrete under the picnic table. Then, I put some items on top of the panels to hold them secure.

After that, I return to inside the jammer and pound keys for a time longer and finally, retire to the horizontal to read in the Bible and watch more of the videos. This evening, the sky is clear, the wind is strong and the temperature is in the high 70s. Too, the full moon is bright this evening and so much so that it is hard to take a photo.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, start the jammer, drive to the shower house, but unintentionally leave my sandals at camp. Like I have always said, Life is tough, then you leave your sandals in camp. No really. I do not drive back for the sandals, but take my hot shower without them, and then return to camp. After returning to my parking space, I leave the jammer engine on for charging batteries, set up the solar panels back in their position, and then climb inside the jammer to pound keys and begin my journal entry for today. The wind, still blowing this morning refrains me from using my stove to boil water. Well at least for now because I do so enjoy having my hot water to use for my morning meal. A little later, the wind abates somewhat and I am able to heat water.

Then, I climb inside the jammer and continue pounding keys while working on Episode Three some more. However, shortly after noon, I pack out my gear and head out of the state park and drive into the city and stop at a w-mart to upload the photos and web pages that have been updated. The wind continues all day today and then the sun sets again before six this evening, another short day with little sunlight for charging batteries. Methinks, I must purchase a second deep cell battery so I will have power that will last into the evening, especially on these short winter days.

At seven, I pack out of here, drive to the restaurant a few blocks east, go inside for some supper, which because of the pandemic, only have fried food suppers. So, I purchase a four vegetable place for my meal and methinks, I will not come here again to eat supper for a while. Afterwards, I park the jammer in the back of the restaurant, climb in read until I get sleepy.

Awake, dress in my summer blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. I keep pounding keys until shortly after noon when I pack out and drive north on tenth street until I arrive at the hg-mart.

I go inside and purchase two packs of blueberries, four pack of cooked beets, elderberry juice, grape seed extract and two packs of cranberries, which comes to almost sixty dollars. Again, I am so appalled at the extreme high cost of food and methinks, how much worse can this get.

After that, I stop at the dollar store to purchase napkins and envelopes for the letter writing ministry. Finally, I return to the w-mart, park and work on Episode Three until long after dark. Then, I drive to the d-mart, park in the outlying parking lot for the night and get into the horizontal to read and watch Bible videos for until I turn of the electronics and close my eyes.

Awake and see that the front came in last night, which dropped the temperature some ten degrees and brought with it scattered rain showers with occasional thunder. I then dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart, walk inside to purchase a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water. Then, I walk back to the jammer, grab my sierra cup and walk to the rear of the jammer to fill it with the ingredients for my morning meal. Next, I close the real lift door and climb back into the front to set up to eat my meal and to pound keys for this morning.

First, I update my journal entries for yesterday and today, then upload the file to the website and afterwards, resume my work on Episode Three. Today, I work on connecting the two episodes, one and three, together, making them match in between the two accounts, which has proven not to be an easy accomplishment. Later in the day, I stop working on the word processor, save and put away the stories for another time. Then, I get out the JW library app and begin my study for the meeting tonight.

Then at seven this evening, I connect to the meeting on the zoom app, then begin seeing the friends fill the congregation squares again and soon the meeting starts. The amazingly great information continues to be taught at the table of Jehovah with the understanding of how the sacrifices at the tabernacle relate to how we live our lives now as we worship the one true God.

After the meeting, I drive back to the d-mart to park for the night.

Awake, start the jammer engine to warm the inside, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart, purchase a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water, then use the hot water to make my morning meal. While I eat breakfast, I also pound keys and continue with Episode Three, keeping to it all day long. Then at seven, I drive to the burger called What for a double meat extra onion, which I take to the d-mart to eat.

I then park, have my burger and read in the Bible on my phone for a time before closing my eyes.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart and find the space that I like still open, so, I back in and get the jammer ready for a day of pounding keys. Then, I grab my sierra cup, walk to the rear of the jammer and load the fixings for a cup of Daystart. After I put the cup back into the jammer, I walk inside for a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water, then return to have my breakfast.

Another day in the city, pounding keys. listening to all the sirens, horns and loud engines. I do so dislike the city, but I know too, that there are some places here where I can hide out while waiting for the paradise to come. Later, I return to the d-mart for the night and here, there is an outlying parking lot which is next to a small city green spot, on with numerous large trees which block most of the parking lot lights and also lessens the traffic nearby.

Awake to a near perfect day, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. After I purchase my coffee, I return to the jammer, set up the window coverings, turn on my computer, begin my journal entry for today and then afterwards begin preparing for the meeting later today. Then, fifteen minutes before noon, I have completed my study, so, I open my word processor and pound keys until time to connect to the meeting. Then, the meeting starts and I am dressed with my shirt and tie, but still have my shorts on. However, in my particular square, all that you can see is from my chest upwards, no one is able to see the lower areas of my attire, which is life in the zoom app.

After the meeting, I continue working on Episode Three until about six-thirty, after which, I stop, put away the computer and then drive west on IH 2 to where the Cracker Barrel restaurant hoping that they have the grilled trout for supper. Upon arriving at the host desk in the restaurant, I see that the menu has not changed since my last visit, meaning, there still is not grilled trout. So, I settle for my second choice, the Old Timers Breakfast, which is really great in the morning but not really what I wanted for supper, but is at least a meal that I do enjoy.

Afterwards, I drive back to the d-mart, park for the night and climb into the back to watch some videos.

Awake, slowly get up, dress in my fall blues, drive into the main parking lot to dump my garbage in the receptacle, and then drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. I watch the sun rise through the thick fog over the horizon while I pound keys and update my journal. Then, I resume my work on Episode Three.

Another day in the jammer, a warm one, which I spent pounding keys. Then after the sun sets and the sky turns dark, I drive back to the d-mart for the night. Before I turn off the electronics, I watch the new monthly program on JW.org.

Awake late, drive first to the garbage can and dump my trash, then drive to the w-mart and connect to the WiFi to check com and upload my files. After a day having to deal with the midday high temperature, I am glad when the sun sets and the heat fades. Shortly after it becomes dark, I drive to the d-mart and park for the night,

Even with the decrease in temperature after sunset, it takes a little while longer for it to cool off enough for me to be comfortable so as to be able to fall asleep.

Awake later today, dress in my summer blues, and drive out of McAllen heading west on IH 2, then US 83, and continue to Falcon state park so that I can get into the hot water. After taking my shower, I leave the park and drive back into the city, but this time all the way to Harlingen, stopping first at Luby′s cafeteria for baked fish and steamed vegetables. After eating, I then drive to the of-mart to see if I can print my tax forms and I find out that the printer accepts an USB thumb drive which makes this so very easy. Now, I just have to finish my tax documents and then I will print and mail them.

Next, I drive to the w-mart and sit outside in the jammer while the temperature goes up, but no where near as much as it did the last two days, to which I am glad. When the wind increases, it begins to cool off quickly, as the wind is the leading edge of the incoming cold front. When the sun sets and the sky turns dark, I drive to the d-mart and park for the night.

Today has truly been a day unlike any I have experienced in my life, both in weal and woe. I find myself saddened because the country where I have lived all my life has become an malevolent and completely corrupted. The people of this nation, likewise have digressed to becoming nefarious and shameful, even without remorse. Thus was the scene yesterday in the capital assault by a mob, as reported on by all the media where numerous were hurt, one shot dead and many arrested. But not only there, even here in Harlingen where amassed a large contingent of the same crazies, screaming, blowing horns for what amounted to hours.

At first, I thought the commotion was the local high school winning a football game, but the noise did not stop, nor was tonight the customary Friday night for such venue. It was not until I walked inside the w-mart to ask about the commotion that I was to find that it was a rally for the outgoing candidate in the election.

Methinks, this world has become out of control, like what was prophesied by Daniel, when he said that the feet of the image was partially iron and partially clay, revealing the unrest of the people at the time of the end further diminishing the iron like strength of the then world power. Even so, the very same prophesy ends with God′s Kingdom crushing and putting an end of all the rulerships of the Earth and setting up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. (Daniel 2:44)

Knowing this about what God′s Kingdom will soon do, I lay in the back of the jammer and I thank Jehovah for having called me out of this wicked world and given me the hope of the coming paradise.

Awake, walk into the w-mart to purchase a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water and then back out to the jammer for my breakfast while pounding on the keys to begin today′s journal. Later, I begin my study for the meeting tonight after which I pound keys while waiting for the meeting to begin.

At seven this evening, I log on to the congregational, take my place among the squares, and enjoy the spiritual meal. Afterwards, I drive to the d-mart to park for the night.

Awake, walk into the w-mart for coffee and upon my return to the jammer, start the engine and drive west on IH 2, to Penitas, Texas where the additional western sections of the Interstate high continues under construction. From here, I continue west on US 83 all the way back to Falcon where I go into the state park for a hot shower after which I drive back out to the county park to find a space to park. As I am walking about outside the jammer, a man drives up in a car and greets me, after which we begin to talk. He says that he is from the city and drove up here to check out the area. Soon, I direct the conversation to the Bible and he tells me that he is Agnostic, to which I respond, What do you mean when you say that you are Agnostic?

He replies, I do not believe in being a Catholic, Baptist or Protestant. I was taught to be a good person by my parents and I try to follow the rule, Do unto other as you would have them do unto you. We talk for a while longer and he lets me read a scripture and speak to him about how I believe but he then says that he need to get going.

Then, I put up my solar panels and climb inside to begin pounding keys, first to catch up on my journal writing, after which I resume my book writing.

At nine-thirty, I put away the electronics, roll out my bed and get horizontal for the night.

Awake, climb out of the jammer and walk to the shower house to use the mens room. Then I say hello to the several campers in the open air shelter. Dan greets me, welcomes me to the campground and describes the campground amenities. After a short talk, I return to the jammer to begin boiling water. Once the water has boiled, I make a cup of coffee, a cup of hot tea and a cup of my Daystart after which, I climb in to keep warm on this cold day and pound keys.

There are several birds that frequent this area, mostly a nosy mockingbird but also a loggerhead shrike. A little later, I see a female vermilion flycatcher but I am only able to take one photo before it is gone. Too, I have seen both of these flycatchers recently while in Falcon state park which this park is adjacent to.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, turn on the jammer engine for some heat as the humidity make is feel much colder that the actual temperature. I also turn on the computer and begin checking my com and soon after walk to the mens room but on my return do not set up my stove for coffee but instead forgo the hot liquid because of the dampness outside. I have been thinking of driving back to the city so that at least, I will be able to buy a cup of hot in the morning. Still, I will need to wait for the clouds to dry up so that I can step outside and pack out my campsite. That will happen, most likely this afternoon or tomorrow, but if it dries up and warms up enough by then, I may just stay and make coffee here on the picnic table which I only yesterday scrubbed clean of the orange moss that had taken over the surface.

However, right now, I will begin my study for the meeting that will happen a little later today. During the meeting, the rain stops but the wind seems to have increased, even blowing over my solar panels. I continue to enjoy the fellowship and then after the meeting, I step out of the jammer to find out the area has dried out. I pack up the solar, grab my suet feeder, wrap it with a plastic bag, and hang it in its place. Then, I pick up my stool and put it in the back of the jammer and leave falcon county campground.

Afterwards, I drive to the state park for a hot shower in the full hookup loop shower house. This time under the hot water completes my assessment of three of the shower houses in the state park. What I have come to learn is that the one that I began with, the one next to campsite 67 has the hottest water, steamy hot and this one will continue as my favorite. ¹

After the shower, I leave the state park, drive southeast back into the city and stop at the w-mart in Mc Allen, Texas, the one next to the d-mart which in the outlying parking lot has an area that is heavily wooded next to the parking area. I like this location for overnighting as it is darker than most parking lots and here, I have not yet been told that I can not park here. So, until that happens, I will continue overnighting here during then winter. Too, there are several of the stores that I like to frequent nearby.

I climb into the back of the jammer and close my eyes.

Awake, turn on the jammer engine to warm me up, then dress in my winter blues, drive to the w-mart for a cup of hot coffee and one of hot water. Then, I return to the jammer, use the hot water to make my morning meal and then enjoy breakfast while pounding keys.

At five this evening, Angela, a friend in Oak Harbor who receives my mail sent me a text telling me that my stimulus debit card arrived. She was not sure that it was real, so I send a photo from the IRS web site showing what the real envelope and debit card looks like, and she confirmed that it was exactly like the photo that I send. I like that fact that the funds on the card are good until mid 2024, because now, I do not have to hurry to Washington to pick up the card.

I continue pounding keys for a time longer before I pack out and drive to the d-mart for the night.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. Then, at twelve-thirty, I connect to a zoom meeting, a different sort but still with my spiritual family. It is called a coffee break from the ministry where a brother interviews, usually, a couple who have been in the full time service for some time. This is cool because we are getting to know one another more and more, even from different countries. This particular coffee break is coming from Ensenada, Mexico.

After the interview, I leave the zoom app and continue pounding keys until just after sunset when I drive to the d-mart to do some grocery shopping. When I walk out of the d-mart, I drive to the outlying parking lot, pull in, put up my window shades and retire for the evening.

Awake to a cold morning, start the jammer engine and drive to the d-mart to use the mens room. Then, I drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. I work on Episode Three and update the images in Book Two. The sunrise this morning is quite colorful, however, I refrain from taking photos because of all the utility wires everywhere in the city that to me, makes the photos, any photo ugly. However, I do so enjoy having the conveniences that are found here in the city.

Later, I retire to the d-mart to park for the night.

Awake, drive to the w-mart, go inside for a cup of coffee and a cup of hot water, then return to the jammer and with the engine running, make my Daystart for my morning meal. The last few mornings, I have been adding almond flour to the mix so as to use up the flour.

I continue until the afternoon when I stop and begin study preparations for the meeting tonight. At seven this evening, I turn on the zoom app and soon, I an mingling among the squares. Before the meeting begins, I ask Frank if I can have some more addresses so that I can write letters and witness to the home owners.

Then, after the meeting, I drive to the d-mart, park and climb into the back of the jammer, to first read and then sleep.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, drive to the ff-mart for a breakfast burrito and a senior coffee, then I drive to the interstate and drive west out of town towards Falcon state park for a hot shower. When I arrive, I pay for one week of camping and then drive to the shower house for the first of eight days of hot showers.

Then, I drive to campsite # 68, set out my solar panels and put out my door mat. Next, I climb into the back of the jammer and turn on the computer for some recreational key pounding. At seven, I have some caned fish and open a container of bone broth to drink. Next, I read for a while and watch a couple of Bible videos, after which, I get into the horizontal and sleep.

Awake to a very cold morning, start the jammer engine to warm up, disconnect the solar, and drive to the shower house for a hot shower. After warming up, I return to the campsite, leave the engine running, plug in the solar and watch the sun rises shortly after. I then pound keys until it warms up outside enough for me to step out and make coffee. After my breakfast is ready, I return to my seat and pound keys while I have my meal. By eleven this morning, the temperature has already risen to sixty degrees with the high expected to rise just above seventy. I still have on my winter blues but will be shedding some layers very soon.

Awake, start the jammer and drive to the shower house for some hot water. After a long soak, I return to the campsite, and put on a pot of water to boil. Then, with coffee and my breakfast in hand, I study for the meeting today while I eat my meal. Later, before the meeting starts, I connect to the zoom app and take my position in the squares. A brother from Brownsville, Texas gives the public talk and after we study the Watchtower together.

During the meeting, a large raptor lands in the campsite across the park road and sits on a tree branch for some time. I take several photos of this bird and later check to find out that this is a red tail hawk, only a form that I have not seen before. It is called a Harlan′s Form.

Awake, unplug the solar, start the jammer and drive to the shower house for a time in the hot water. Afterwards, I drive back to camp, reconnect the solar and then get out my broom to sweep the concrete. After removing all the sand, I then wipe down the moisture off of the exterior of the jammer and brush the dirt off of the wheels. Next, I get out my stove and tea pot, boil a pot of water and make my regular breakfast, a cup of coffee, a cup of hot mela tea and a cup of Daystart. Finally, I climb back into the jammer and enjoy my meal as I begin my journal entry for today. A short time later, I my alarm goes off to remind me that the zoom coffee cup meeting is going to be today at ten pacific time, but that is still two hours away.

The interview was with Rick Malet, who served as a circuit overseer in the Mexican English congregations for many years. I do enjoy these interviews. After the interview, I return to my key pounding but in the early afternoon, the temperature rises into the mid-eighties and the flies begin to get annoying. I try to close the windows to keep them out but it quickly becomes overly hot inside the jammer. Next, I step outside and sit on my bench but I do not have access to my computer desk so I just check com on my phone.

In the late afternoon, I step outside and begin cooking my Repast meal

Later in the evening, the wind picks up even more and I step outside to wind proof the solar panels by laying them on the ground and using my bottled water, put some weight on each. Then, I climb back into the jammer and continue watching online videos until late.

Up later this morning than usual, start the jammer and drive to the shower house to get into the hot water. Then, I return to the camp and put on my tea pot to boil water and then I see Laura walking by with her dog. She walks up to my campsite to give me a couple packets of instant coffee and we talk for a few minutes. When she leaves to continue walking her dog, I return to my tea pot and use the hot water to make my regular breakfast. The day continues windy which keeps it cool for a short time longer so I leave my rear lift door up to air out the jammer. In preparation for the heat the is to come later and the flies that also show up, I put up my bug netting across the front two door windows hoping that this will keep them out. About ten-fifteen this morning, the sun starts to brakes through the clouds so I close the rear lift door and then climb back into the jammer and resume pounding keys but the sun never does actually break through the clouds.

Then, I hear the call of a bird I do not recognize but soon after see a golden fronted woodpecker land on a tree next to my site and it begins making a lot of noise, methinks, some what like a chicken. I take a couple of photos but the woodpecker leaves quickly never visiting my suet. I hope he comes back and does land on the suet feeder, which will provide some up close photos.

It has been relatively comfortable hear so far this week, except for the over hot afternoon yesterday. Too, the primitive campground area is nearly empty which allows for a lot of quite time for me. Laura, who came by earlier was the first person I have seen for a time but even so, the state park truck drives by (but does not stop) nearly every day and other cars also drive by. Still, I am finding it so very quite here in this desert state park and also enjoying it. At four this afternoon, I have my left over Repast for my main meal for today adding a can of salmon to it and some hot sauce. Methinks, this is so very taste, but who am I because I am the one who cooked it, so it has to taste good to me.

Then, at seven this evening, it begins to rain, and I start the jammer engine to keep working on the computer.

Awake, turn on the jammer engine for heat and to dry the inside. I do not step out to make coffee this morning because the wind is blowing too hard and the rain has everything wet. Instead, I decide to drive to Roma, Texas a little later for my coffee, and just stay inside this morning and pound keys. Then, at ten this morning, I step outside and pack out for the trip to town. I do leave my tap water bottles and garbage containers on the table and drive out of the park, then south on US 83 to Roma and stop atop at the burger house named What for a sandwich and senior coffee. Afterwards, I then drive further south on US 83 to Rio Grande City, Texas to stop at the grocery store and purchase some vegetables.

When the shopping is done, I drive back north on US 83 to the state park, to my site and pull into the space and park. Then, I turn on the computer and pound keys until in the late afternoon, I decide to take a nap.

After a couple of hours, I rise and walk to the mens room, after which I return to pounding keys and do not stop until after ten before I return to the horizontal for the night.

Awake, turn on the jammer engine for the heat and dry and begin pounding keys to catch up on my journal writing. Then, about nine this morning, because the rain has stopped, I step outside and set up my stove and boil a pot of water for my breakfast.

While having my breakfast, I resume the key pounding and work on the web site pages dealing with Falcon state park campground and surrounding areas including the Sierra Madre Oriental.

Then, at seven this evening, I connect to the Airport Harlingen congregation and join with them in the mid-week meeting. After the meeting, I turn of the computer, get into the horizontal and watch some of the January JW broadcast, but only about half and hour before I turn off my phone and close my eyes.

Awake to a dry morning, the rain of the last two days having given way to dryer conditions and I dress in my summer blues, drive to the shower house for some hot water on my body and then drive to the park office to add three days to my camping stay. Once I have the new permit, I drive back to the campsite, park, and set up my stove to boil a pot of water. When the water boils, I make my regular breakfast, after which, I climb inside the jammer to eat and for some key pounding to catch up on my journal entries.

Awake to a fog saturated morning, dress, drive to the shower house, wash my winter shirt and trousers in the outside sink, and then go inside for some hot water on my body. Afterwards, I drive back to camp, string a clothes line to hang my wash and set up my stove to boil water. Then, my new neighbor Dana, walks into my site to say hello and stays to talk for a time. I finish making my breakfast, put it inside and when he leaves, I climb inside to have my meal and begin pounding keys.

At three today, I step outside, start my stove, and then cook a pot of collard greens, adding onion, Mexican squash, TWS, seaweed, and finally some quinoa. I draw off of the pot, two large cups of broth and sip on the hot liquid for a couple of hours before having some of the cook pot foot, which turns out pretty good, if I might say. Again, who am I to say, Mikey likes everything!

Due to the fact that today is Saturday, there are a lot of city dwellers who come to the park for picnics and such. One family parked three spaces down from me lit a campfire and began to cook meat over the coals. I know it was meat because I could smell it. Then about five this afternoon, they pack out and drive out of the park, with the exception of Danna, who pulled in yesterday diagonally across the road to camp, I am pretty much alone in the state park now and it is quiet again.

Then, at about six this evening, the sun finally does break through the clouds cover, but only for about two minutes before it disappeared again. The night soon takes control of the sky and not long into the dark do the coyotes begin to cry out as it is a warm night and thus they are very active. I turn off the computer, then get into the horizontal to read or maybe I will watch more of the January broadcast before I close my eyes.

I end up doing both, reading in the Bible and then watching more of the broadcast, then I close my eyes.

Awake, drive to the shower house for hot water, then return to the campground and begin my morning meal. Afterwards, turn on the computer and begin my study for the meeting. Soon after, the meeting begins and half way through the talk, the internet dies and I loose my connection. By the time that I get reconnected, the talk is over and the study is already in the fifth paragraph. The connection lasts until shortly after the meeting ends.

I then take off my meeting shirt, step outside with my bucket and wash the shirt, after which, I hang up on the line that I had strung yesterday for my winter shirt and trousers. Then, I climb inside and begin pounding keys until the sunset when I take some photos but it is not the best that I have seen here.

Continuing to pound keys, for some time, working the New River Gorge page, because the photos of that journey not only took me to a Canyon that I previously have not included in the Earth′s Canyons, but there are two bridges to include, the New River arch bridge and the Station Road truss bridge, that I have photos of that are not in my Modern Man, Bridge Gallery. I get really close to finishing the Gorge gallery and then I get a phone call from Joe, my friend in Tennessee. He has a question about a friend request, one which I had also go but determined that it was a scam. We continue to talk for a while longer and make plans for a visit in late February or early March for me to see his new home in Ardmore, Tennessee.

Then, I return to the key pounding, finish up on the gorge page and will half to wait for another day to do the two bridges. I then shut off the computer and read for a while.

Awake, start the engine to charge batteries, turn on my computer and update journal entries while awaiting the sun to rise. Then, at seven-twenty, I walk to the shower house for a hot shower, the tenth one in ten days, and methinks, I have not had this much hot water since before the journey on actually began on Day 1053 IP, when I said Any future hot showers will be a rarity and truly appreciated. Yes, I do so appreciate a hot shower, but even more so appreciate a hot spring, which I have been thinking about traveling to for several days now, even told that to Joe yesterday when we talked.

Upon returning to the jammer, I turn on my computer and begin recording today′s journal entry, after which I work on the New River pages for a time. However, I will not do so for too long because I must needs drive to a w-mart to upload the countless pages that have been updated this repose at the Falcon. So at ten this morning, I drive out of Falcon, east on US 83, stop in Penitas, Texas for gasoline and then connect to the IH 2 and drive to McAllen to stop at the w-mart, Here, I sit, upload my files and then complete the New River Trio and upload all these files as well. However, the temperature is really much too hot here for me and I begin looking at moving north sooner than I would normally from the bottom of Texas.

So, in looking at my available options, I immediately decide not to go in the direction of the Rocky Mountains, at least not yet, but instead drive north through Texas. Because I do not want to go through another hot day and very warm night it has been for the last two days, I will begin tomorrow morning and work towards arriving at Lake Corpus Christi state park for my next hot shower stop.

Awake, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com, update my journal and upload pages to the web, saying here only long enough to finish work on what I had been working on for the last couple of days. I have decided that it has become too hot in the valley for me, even when I am at Falcon state park. The daytime temperatures are in the eighties and the nights in the sixties. With it this warm, I am constantly sweating and even after several showers at Falcon, as soon as I am back in the city for one day, I begin to sweat and then shortly after, stink. The only alternative is to remove myself from the hot and to do that, I must needs move further north in Texas to where the temperature is still relatively cold for me not to be sweating.

What I will be looking for is to find daytime temperatures in the low to mid sixties and the nighttime in the mid forties. It could even be a bit colder at night and I will just have to put on another blanket, but not above the sixties during the day. I have been looking at the temperatures across Texas and I will start with about two to three hundred miles north of the valley, somewhere north in IH 10 and most likely along the El Camino Real de Los Tejas, which is one of the Royal Roads, the one that is in Texas. Methinks, when I do travel in the area, I now prefer to use the de Los Tejas route, one of the several routes, which now is SH 21 in Texas from San Marcos northeast to Nacogdoches and to the Sabine River, then SR 6 in Louisiana to Natchitoches.

Then, before noon, I am on the road north once again, first IH 2 a little to the east and then north on IH 69C out of the valley towards Alice, Texas, then SH 44 east to Robstown, then north on FM 1889 SH 624 and east again a short distance to my stop for today, a w-mart that I have frequented often on this north south corridor.

It was an easy drive, only about one hundred and fifty miles but that short distance should drop the temperature fifteen degrees during the day down to under seventy degrees. I sit in the parking lot in front of the w-mart and pound keys until it the sun drops below the horizon and even for some time after.

When I become tire of sitting and pounding keys, I drive to the nearby d-mart and park for the night. Once I have gotten into the horizontal, I spend a time reading and watching a couple of videos before I close my eyes.

Awake, dress, drive to the af-mart to purchase gasoline, and next to the w-mart for coffee. Then, I sit in the jammer, turn on my computer to check com and pound keys. The temperature here when I arrived yesterday was much better, actually just below the high of seventy degrees.

At ten this morning, I pack out and drive on a series of highway which take me nearly due north. However, my first stop takes me west along SR 624 to Orange Grove, then northeast on SR 359 to Lake Corpus Christi state park for a much needed hot shower. After the long soak, I continue northeast on SR 359 to US 181 and turn left heading northwest Karnes City, Texas where I turn right on SR 80 and continue north to Luling, Texas where I turn right on SR 86 and drive to SR 71 and Bastrop, Texas where I stop for the day at the w-mart.

I have come from the bottom of the Texas coastal plains to a location very near to the Balcones Fault line which in Texas marks the edge between the Coastal Plains and the Great Plains. I do not believe that I will soon be crossing that fault line.

Then, some time after the sun sets, I drive to the other side of the highway and park in the d-mart.

Awake to a very cold morning thinking that even though it is so cold, I would rather have it like this than it being hot during the day and warm at night. Glad that I made the move north to get out of the warm weather in the bottom of Texas. I dress in my winter blues which are mostly gray, and drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and computer. After pounding keys most all morning, I stop, put away the computer, and begin writing letters for my my ministry. Then, after completing three complete letters, I then stop again to change my focus.

I get out my Bible app and study for the meeting tonight, after which I begin uploading videos to my phone and continue while also working on my journal entry. When seven o&clock arrives, I turn on the zoom app and connect to the Airport Harlingen congregation. When I acquire my space, a couple of the friends ask, Are you still in the Valley, you are aren&primel;t you? I shake my head side to side and say, It is way too hot in the valley this year, I moved to where it has a high of 59 degrees and a low at night in the 30s. Frank, then asks, Where are you? to which I tell him, I drove about 175 nearly straight north and arrived in Bastrop, Texas, a short distance east of Austin.

Soon, the meeting begins and even sooner, it is over again and I leave the w-mart, drive to the d-mart and park for the night, at the edge of the lot, near where I had parked the night before.

Awake, stop for coffee at a ff-mart and since the local grocery does not have a good selection of organics, I drive into the city to shop for groceries. I also stop at the Cracker Barrel for lunch before getting back on the road.

Later, I drive back to Bastrop, arriving shortly before the sunset and stop at the w-mart to get online and check com. After some time, I then drive to the d-mart for the evening.

Awake to what feels to me like a perfect morning, well, temperature wise, but the humidity make me feel like I am on the wet side of the climate divide. In fact, when checking my coordinates, it shows that I am east of the ninty-eigth meridian.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, drive to the w-mart for coffee, com and to pound on the computer. Later, I begin preparing for the study today and at twelve-thirty connect to the zoom app and log onto the Airport Harlingen congregation for the weekend meeting.

Awake to another cold morning but when the sun rises, the day quickly warms. I dress in my fall blues, drive to Bastrop State Park for a hot shower. After my shower, I leave the state park and drive northeast on SH 21 and stop in Bryan, Texas but the signal at the w-mart was so weak that I could not connect. I leave Bryan and continue east to Crocket and here too could not find a good signal. So, I continue driving but depart from SH 21 because I know that Nacogdoches does not have a good location, and turn east onto SH 7 and drive to Lufkin, Texas. After finding two w-marts inside of d-marts, I finally find the perfect location, one with a very strong signal. Too,

Too, directly behind the w-mart is a d-mart and a Cracker Barrel, and a Wienerschnitzel, and a Whataburger, and every other store I could ask for. Well, except for a bank, but I do not expect to find a branch of my bank until I arrive in Arkansas.

I stop, connect to the internet, upload my web pages and then drive to the d-mart to park for the night.

Awake, dress in my winter blues, drive to the ff-mart and walk in for a cup of coffee and a breakfast burrito. After have refilled my coffee, a twelve ounce cup, three times, I pack out of the restaurant and drive to the w-mart to get online. I await for the coffee break meeting in Ensinada, Mexico which happened first on Day 875 TG when I was in the valley. It starts at eleven-thirty by my time is two hours later at one-thirty in the afternoon. The interview is of a couple who have been working full time in Jamaica and all that attend get to meet then by having this interview.

Immediately, after the coffee break ends, I drive to the af-mart to fill up my gasoline tank, the to the Wienerschnitzel for my favorite meal, a Polish sandwich, which has a Polish sausage sliced in two, and a sliced dill pickle, mustard and onions all on two slices of bread. I take it with me and depart from Lufkin, Texas on US 59 north and drive for one hundred and eighty miles to the IH 30, then east a couple of miles to the w-mart in Texarkana, Texas. I pull off of the interstate and park in the parking lot, connect to the WiFi at the w-mart and begin pounding keys to catch up on my journal writing. Earlier, I had sent my ministry report to the brother in Oak Harbor and he replied that there is a Circuit Overseers visit tonight.

After I have caught up on the journal, then, I begin preparing for the meeting toning, which my time will begin until nine this evening. I know this will be a late night because the meeting will not end until nearly eleven pm. That is much later than I ever stay up, but it is for a good reason, a spiritual banquet.

I am really tired when the meeting is over, having stayed up later that I ever do and I drive to the d-mart and climb in the back to sleep.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, drive to IH 369, then north to IH 30, east across into Arkansas and drive to Arkadelphia, Arkansas to access my bank account account to withdraw some money. Then, I go online to check to see if the Quapaw Bath House is open to day and find out that they are, so I drive north five miles further on IH 30 and get off at exit 78, turn north on SH 7 and stop at the Cracker Barrel for an Old Timers breakfast. Afterwards, I continue north on SR 7 to Hot Springs, Arkansas and pull into one of the free parking spaces in front of the Quapaw, grab my day pack and load it with a towel and clean clothes. Then, I walk into the Quapaw only to find out that the pools are closed for two days for the annual cleaning. I told the gate keeper that I was really upset because the website said that the Quapaw was open today. She said that yes, for the spas but not for the pools. I then said, It would be nice that your web site would specify that because I had to drive a very long way to get here.

Leaving the Quapaw, I drive to the w-mart to check my com and when I am done, I drive east on US 270 to Pine Bluff, then south on US 65 until the sun sets, after which, I stop at the next d-mart I find along the way. I then leave the jammer idling so that I can update my journal entry and try to upload my web page with no avail. Then, I get into the horizontal, watch the February broadcast, after which I finally close my eyes.

Last night was really cold before midnight, possibly 32 degrees, and I was cold despite having my wool socks on and a second blanket, my wool one. After that, I awoke every two hours to drain my bladder and noticed that after midnight, it was no where near as cold when I first got under the covers. I turn on the jammer and while it is warming up, I dress in my fall blues and then begin driving south on US 65, which is the Old River Road, but there are not any locations with good views of the Mississippi River. I cross the state line into Louisiana and continue south on US 65, also the Old River Road in this state. A short time later, I cross IH 20 and continue south on US 65.

Then, before noon, I arrive at the east-west route, US 84 and turn left and drive east on US 84 to Natchez, Mississippi when I immediately pull off into the Natchez Visitors Center to check about the availability of parking here overnight. Upon asking one of the workers, I was told that no, not any more because the National Park Service purchased the visitors center and no longer allows that. So I resort to my backup plan, drive north on the Natchez Trace Parkway to Rocky Springs campground at mile marker 54 and camp here for free.

Upon arriving in my space, I get out my cook pot and begin preparing my Repast. Then, at three in the afternoon, I climb back into the jammer to eat and pound keys to update my journal entry.

Later, I watch a couple of dramas from the JW Library app and then get into the horizontal. During the night, it begins to rain quite hard.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, walk to the mens room, then back to the jammer to start the engine, drive out of the campground and north on the parkway. When I arrive on the north side of Jackson, Mississippi, I pull off the parkway and stop at a w-mart, go in and purchase coffee and back out to the jammer to pound keys and upload files to the website.

At four this afternoon, I pack out and head north on the Natchez Trace Parkway only to find that there is a ten mile stretch of the parkway closed for road repair. So, I take the detour which makes the traverse closer to fifteen miles before it leads me back to the parkway. The extra time for the detour delays my arrival at the Jeff Busby campsite until after sunset and when I arrive, I have to get out with my flashlight to locate a space where I can overnight. Still, I am just happy to have arrived here safe.

Due to it being dark upon arriving, I do not notice the signs on the outside of the rest rooms informing the campers that this restroom is closed. I park, and leave the jammer engine running to keep me warm so as to be able to catch up on my journal writing. Later, when I do walk to the building, I then see that the building is locked shut, apparently for the winter. I return to the jammer and get into the horizontal and decide to wait until the morning to drive down to the one on the parkway.

Then, I turn on the jammer engine to idle while I update my journal entry for the day and at the same time listen to some national radio broadcast which highlights mostly the ideals of the political left that is in power now in this country. Normally, I would have just listened to the broadcasts of the political right as I have done for most all of my life. This change in talk show radio source has also give me quite a bit of insight of what is really happening in the world. This is actually good for me as previously, I have always given kudos to the conservative opinion, even though as a Christian servant of Jehovah, I have always never taken sides with any political organization, nor supported their ideals. What this year, with the most recent presidential election, has shown me is, one, that Jehovah God is really in total charge of the future, and, two, that no man, or group of men can even come close to what Jehovah God has promised to be the future for his servants.

In fact, all that is happening in the world today, is right in line with and on time with what the Bible hold as the truth about the future. My faith in Jehovah is still being bolstered in so many ways. Then, when the national radio then begins a series on a trans-gender music writer and his life now as a female singer. I soon get enough of this because the content is totally repugnant to me and turn off the radio and instead, turn on my audio recordings from the JW Library app. Now, this is what I truly must needs listen to.

Awake, dress in my fall blues, drive down to the parkway to the rest room and after, continue driving north on the Natchez Trace Parkway towards Tupelo, Mississippi. It does not take long until I exit at mile marker 260 in Tupelo and drive east on Main street to the w-mart, park, walk in for a cup of hot and then return to the jammer for my breakfast, check com and to pound keys.

I work all morning, and stop for a lunch break to drive for Mexican food, yes, I purchased some fish tacos at the local restaurant which turned out quite good. Then back to the w-mart until done uploading my work and then on to the d-mart for the night.

A statement from one of the series in Star Trek, "You spend so much time arguing whether or not a hotdog is a sandwich, that you are ignoring the real question... Is cereal soup?" When I heard this today, I laughed quite loud.

And the above bit of Star Trek wisdom closes yet one more of my one hundred day parts of the span of a thousand days.