Boy, has it been a hot summer so far! Now imagine Canton, Texas (102 degrees) inside a huge metal building with no air conditioning and 100,000 people... Yuck! What I did get out of the whole thing was to go earlier in the day... by 2:00 everyone was leaving and I felt like I was melting!!! It was a fun experience though, found some cool traffic signs and some vintage furniture for the store. We headed down to San Antonio from there and spent a few days wandering around the outlying neighborhoods and the Riverwalk area. Now, skip ahead two weeks and just on a whim, we decide to go to Tulsa to a music festival downtown.... well the music was questionable, the street performers were awesome and the crowd interesting!Needless to say, we got bored, drove to quiktrip to get an icee and went to our room in a very cool downtown hotel and called it a night. Next morning, we made the short trip to Jenks and spent hours shopping at my favorite store, River City Trading Post. My head hurt bad from looking by the time we were done, but drove home with a truck full of goodies! Now it is 108 degrees here in Northwest Arkansas and the store is mostly full, but my storage is completely empty.... and its too hot for garage sales or shopping... I'm not really sure what to do now! Guess I will have to start building my own furniture to paint!
The moral of this story is have fun with everything you do! If you have to travel, go visit the downtown areas and eat at the mom and pop establishments... you will not only get work done, but also take in some culture and have lasting memories!
