{"id":8964,"date":"2017-04-08T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2017-04-08T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T17:26:29","slug":"austin-the-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"Austin – the Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I crossed the Mississippi, my next destination was Buda, Texas, which was a mere<\/strong><\/em> 525 miles away. I had an appointment for Flo at Camper Clinic 2 to have her checked for leaks.<\/p>\n

Buda is a small town about 10 miles south of Austin, and, incidentally, Buda is pronounced “BEAU-da.” (I knew you wanted to know.)<\/p>\n

I crossed into Texas and stopped into the welcome center.<\/p>\n

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And I was back in Texas!<\/p>\n

I stopped for the night at a rest stop near Corsicana. I like the fact that Texas welcomes travelers to stay over at their rest stops. It makes covering ground in that huge state much more convenient.<\/p>\n

After a good night’s sleep at the rest stop, I hit the road towards Austin. I started seeing signs for Buc-ee’s.<\/p>\n

Buc-ee’s! Now I know<\/strong><\/em> I’m in Texas!<\/p>\n

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There are billboards announcing how far you are from the next Buc-ee’s. When you get close, you finally see the Buc-ee’s sign glowing in the distance.<\/p>\n

You might want to know, “What is Buc-ee’s?” Well, it is a Texas-sized gas station. Actually to call it a gas station is kind of like calling the Grand Canyon erosion damage.<\/p>\n

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The clerk in the convenience store – which is roughly the size of a Wal-Mart – told me that there are 96 gas pumps in front of the store, and that there are times when all the pumps are full and there is a line!<\/p>\n

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At the entrance to the store is a bronze statue of Buc-ee himself!<\/p>\n

The store has just about everything you could want – food, clothes, outdoor equipment and REST ROOMS! (Guess where I was heading?)<\/p>\n

After my visit to the porcelain convenience, I decided to grab a little sustenance. I saw that they had kolaches, which I hadn’t managed to sample on my previous travels in\u00a0Texas.<\/p>\n

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According to my ultimate resource (Wikipedia), a kolach (plural: kolaches) is a pastry that comes from Eastern Europe. It is a type of pastry that holds a dollop of fruit rimmed by a puffy pillow of supple dough. Now I can say I’ve had kolaches.<\/p>\n

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On my way to the cash register to pay for my snack, I passed a large display of Buc-ee swag. While they had\u00a0cute stuff, I didn’t really need anything. I was able to pass the display and get back on the road.<\/p>\n

I arrived at Camper Clinic 2 and dropped off Flo. Cora and I headed for the hotel.<\/p>\n

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The plan was that they would apply the Sealtech machine on Flo and then seal up where the water was getting in. I do love a plan! One of these days, the plans will work.<\/p>\n

After I got settled in to the hotel, I got a call from them that told me that the repair job I had done the year before – when I put a hole in the side – had been done incorrectly. They told me that they had to remove, reseat and re-caulk the five windows on the affected side of the trailer. I took a deep breath and agreed to the repairs.<\/p>\n

So, rather than the two days I had originally planned, I ended up spending about a week in Austin.<\/p>\n

Oh, well. I did feel that I hadn’t allotted enough time for my visit to Austin the year before.<\/p>\n

Thus endeth “Austin – the Arrival”.<\/p>\n

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After I crossed the Mississippi, my next destination was Buda, Texas, which was a mere 525 miles away. I had an appointment for Flo at Camper Clinic 2 to have her checked for leaks. Buda is a small town about 10 miles south of Austin, and, incidentally, Buda is pronounced “BEAU-da.” (I knew you wanted … Continue reading Austin – the Arrival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[765,431,763,766,764],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-765","tag-austin","tag-buc-ees","tag-buda","tag-camper-clinic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}