Our truck was fixed this morning but we waited until after lunch to pick it up. After ransoming it for $1600 we decided to go Christmas shopping and spend some more money. Around San Antonio there are lots and lots of stores in lots of spread out shopping areas. There is also lots of crisscrossing highways including I10. To access the stores you have to take the correct exit, and drive the access road to the stores on the correct side of the road. If the stores are on the other side of the highway, you take the exit to the access road, take that a mile or two to the u turn, then take that access road back to where you want to shop. If you don’t know where you’re going (which of course we didn’t) you take the wrong access road exit, drive extra far to the u turn, then drive back and look for the road you need, miss it and turn around again, then stop somewhere and set the gps.
We managed to find several stores we wanted within walking distance of each other, then decided to find a store in another section. This turned out to be a city of high-end-NYC/Rodeo Drive type stores with several different sections. Each section was centered around a courtyard with parking at the backs of the stores. If you didn’t know where you were going, (which, again, we didn’t) you let the gps guide you, park, and try to find access to the store fronts. This was a lot of trouble for access to one store!
We bought our two gifts, walked around and around looking for the public restrooms which were in another section off a different courtyard, and decided to head for home. We joined the queue on the access road for a couple of miles of stop/start bumper-to-bumper traffic, then joined the queue on the highway for more of the same. After a few miles we managed to leave most of the traffic behind, made a quick stop at McDonald’s for supper and made for home.
Phew!
Louise and Duane
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