On the road again....

Yee Haa!!! Old Billy Bob is headed down the road do'n a hunnert mile a hour. This post is being made from Sanderson, Tx. bout 115 mile from Del Rio, Tx., where me an' old fat man Jack spend an awesome time catch'n fish and stuff like that. In Del Rio not Sanderson. Camped a whole week for $14......cain't beat that wit a stik.

Got to make this short 'cause my internet connection SUCKS. Really slow for a big city like Sanderson.
Left out an hour after Barney did this morn'n headed off in different directions. Him go'n south to Rockport and me go'n west towards Deming, NM. I were all excitis once I got fuel and set the speed control thingy on 60 mile a hour. Damn, I like the desert.

When I get down the road to civilization, I'll attempt to catch up on all the blogs and put an update to this one. Somewhere's up the road bout a mile or less, I'll be headed north to Ft. Stockton and I-10......only bout 80 mile north.

Missed y'all for the last week. Ain't never gonna let it happen again.

UPDATE:
4PM.......sit'n to the side the road. Boy howdy I mean to tell ya, this travel'n stuff is why I retired. Get behind the wheel this big ol' thang an' scare hell out people. You think I'm kid'n? It were back down the road a piece and this guy pull slap out in front me. Now "Sally" can yell "get the hell out the way" pretty loud when she get nervous. That guy what pull out....I'm think'n he done mess his pants....turn pure white, weave'n all over the road look'n for a place to get out the way. Bet he don't do that no more.

Been sit'n here read'n blogs for the last hour....boy howdy I'm never gonna catch up. Then I got to think'n,....this is a really nice comfortable look'n place to camp for the night. Hmmmmm, think I might just do that.

Just for Trouble.....here that pic ya been wait'n for for so long. Ya see, Barney was fish'n over there where there weren't no fish while old Billy Bob done clumb over all them big rocks an' stuff to get to the fish'n hole what had so many fishs they was fight'n just to get on my pole. That be one monster of a fish.

Ya believe that right??? Well good.....'cause old Billy Bob don't stretch no truth ya know.

Stuck in the desert with no internet...

Well howdy do to you....where the hell ya been? Been miss'n see'n all your happy faces and sit'n on "da porch sip'n a cup an'n jaw'n with ya.

Pull in right across the street from OFM Barney the other day. Tuesday I beleive it was. Well it weren't exactly just pull'n in, old Billy Bob went right on by the entrance to the campground do'n a hunnert mile a hour. DEAD END. "Oh Oh Billy Bob, I don't think you oughter be on this road".

And then...."that jeep" done screw up again. Won't shift out of park. After a full night of think'n an' worry'n "I'm gonna be stranded in this God forsaken place", I finally come to the conclusion...."that jeep" is a piece of junk. Next morn'n I breaks out all kinds of tools an' start tak'n stuff apart. Hammer in one hand and a big screwdriver in the other.....something gonna give. Wiggles wires, pulls on cables, swak this with the hammer, twist that thingy....all kind of "back yard" mechanical stuff. Then I cranks up the engine, grabs holt that shifter thingy an' push the button......WALLA, it works. "You good Billy Bob". 

Today is my 4th day at San Pedro campground in Del Rio, Texas....with no internet, what really make old Billy Bob feel somewhat angry with Verizon. The only place in the whole freak'n world where Verizon won't work and that's right where I plant myself.

Me and old Barney been everywhere. High dollar eat'm up places eat'n up shrimps an' stuff like that. He been mak'n me climb down cliffs, over brush an' weeds, great big ol' rocks, just to get to a fish'n hole.....where there ain't no fish. Not even a little bitty one, 2 inch long or nuttin like that. Sheesh, how I gonna catch me up a fish if'n there ain't none.

Until next time, this is old Billy Bob sign'n off. See ya down the road a piece.

Count down....

Oh boy, I get to see the sun come up this morn'n. What a thrill to look out the winder and see this look'n back at ya. Not a spectacular view of a sunrise if ya ask me. But like they always say...."ya get what ya pay for".

Speak'n of gas prices, what some pretty little girl mentioned......it don't matter. Ya got to understand, that when you retire, buy a big ol' motorhome (Sally da house) and tow a big "that jeep" behind it, it's almost 60 feet long. Now you try to pull this rig up to a pump at the local convenience store. It won't fit and you can not back up. If I drive 8 miles to save a couple cents on a gallon, I'm gonna burn a gallon of fuel or more. So I save nothing. But I have on occasion HAD to drive 4 and 5 miles off my route just to find a station I can fit this rig into. I dread refueling. A trip such as this Texas trip, I'll burn over 350 gallons of fuel. Gotta dig deep in the pockets for that.

Remember all that stuff I were gonna do yesterday so I wouldn't have to do it this morning? Well, guess what. No, never mind, you already know the answer.....didn't do a damn thing. Not only did old Billy Bob feel terrible yesterday, he feel worse this morning. "What the hell did ya eat this time Billy Bob"?

Ok, 10am and all is well.

Well all except for the damn dash air. Where the hell did my freon go? Will have to suffer my way to Del Rio with out it, but ya knows how tuff Billy Bob can be. Ain't skeered no stink'n heat.

Went dumpster div' a while ago. Fount me a great big ol' American flag. I'm talk'n BIG. Now what the hell I gonna do with it....blanket for the bed??? Or a couch cover??? Front winder screen thingy??? I'm talk'n BIG. Maybe put it on my awning like one them screen thingys for shade.....yeah, another project.

Ok folks, see ya down the road a piece.

1pm update:

That ain't so bad. Got the winder open and the fans run'n. Finally got out of the high humidity of the gulf coast and a few miles behind me. But......ya know what a back up monitor is??? It a little tv what hangs up thewre on the dash so's you can see what behind ya when ya back up. Mine stays on all the time so's I can see when "that jeep" come loose an' hits the shoulder....off into the corn fields. Well, that sucker done quit work'n. Now we talk'n anywheres from $400 to $600 just for a new unit. Then it gots to be installed. Is this another project for the Billy Bob?

Ok, just let'n ya know I'm still truck'n down the road a piece. Laters from somewheres.

Pack'n up....

Although 86 to 88 degrees may seem somewhat warm to some, I don't think I gonna be need'n no air conditioning. If worse comes to worster, I can always crank up the generator. Yep, boondock'n is rough. Ain't many can survive the extreme elements that those temps, but old Billy Bob is used to these extremes. When I were 13 year old, I lived in the desert, place call Twentynine Palms....California if'n ya didn't know. We didn't have no air condition back then....in fact we didn't have no electricity neither. But back then, we didn't think much bout how hot it were......115 was the norm.  Burlap was hung over the winders at night with a gallon jug drip system. Gentle breezes would bring in soothing cooled air in the heat of the evening. It were part of grow'n up in the desert.

Boy howdy is Billy Bob got lots to do today or what? Ya see, I always wait till the last minute to do things that might be considered work. Pack'n up for a road trip is work, so I waited till the last minute. Got to make a trip to town for a couple weeks supply of eat'em ups.....you know what I'm talk'n bout. Pick up a few items at the hardware store. Get me one more them cherry hot fudge sundae thingys. Then back to "da house" and pack it up for a long 310 mile drive to Del Rio, Texas. May spend tomorrow night camped out at the Walmart RV Resort in Uvalde, Tx. before mak'n that last hunnert mile journey on to Del Rio. 

It ain't too often when old Billy Bob carelessly flips his lips and says the wrong thing. Well I did that yesterday when I says "no one" instead of "not many". "That's all I have to say bout that"....Gump.

Ok....gonna head 'em off to town. Excitement awaits Billy Bob in the old fishing village of Port Aransas.

Sunday afternoon update

Since no one read this morning edition of Billy Bob's Adventures, here's an update of this afternoon.

The printer is up and running. Does a fair job for what I want it to do. Only problem is I have a room full up with wires hang'n all over the place. So....I am gonna make my kitchen table area my computer command center. Just like NASA. What means I gonna be mov'n stuff. Remodel. Tear down walls. Throw stuff to the dumpster. Break out power tools. Big hammers, table saw, engine hoist....hydraulic jacks an' stuff.

Actually what I gonna do is move a cabinet from over there to over here where the other table chair is located what is never used and I don't eat at the table 'cause there ain't no room.......PHEEEEEWWWW, that was a mouth full. Then I might buy me one them recliner type chairs to put over there where I move the cabinet from.

Yup....that what I gonna do, but not today. Be another project.

Oh yeah afore I forget.....I changed my mind. Well, Barney helped changed it for me. We gonna meet up in Del Rio round bout wednesday or thursday. Do some boat'n in the "bubba boat", catch us up some fish, spend some leisure time just sit'n back jaw'n and tell'n a few lies. Well wait a minute, old Billy Bob don't lie and I don't think Barney do either. 

New project

Holy crap, today is Sunday. Tuesday is departure day and I have no idea where I gonna go. I'm headed west, so it shouldn't be too hard to figger out. Rekon I better break out my Rand McNally GPS and figger out a route and a few places to camp. Ya can buy your own Rand McNally GPS at most any Walmart for $5.97. I'm think'n 2 weeks is enough time to drive the 800 plus miles to Deming.....what ya think?

Ok, let's talk bout this Boze sound system what I bought. "What the hell was ya think'n Billy Bob"???? Holy crap I can yell that loud. Like I said before, it's an excellent system if'n all ya want to do is listen to "quiet" tunes at bout 100 or so decibels. Now I ain't say'n that 100 decibels ain't loud 'cause it is. But that ain't what I were look'n for. I want that hammer'n bass....shake stuff.....rattle doors and winders. No I ain't too old for that kind of stuff.

So here what I gonna do. Back in Deming I have my old bass 10 inches speaker what the amplifier burn slap up. It were a Logitech just like what I was want'n in the first place. I gonna take this Boze thingy apart and put the guts inside my old box. Then cross my fingers an' hope it don't catch fire when I crank it up. Yup....another project for old Billy Bob. It's projects like this that give ya the feel'n of...."you da man Billy Bob".

Speak'n of projects.....let me tell ya bout this wireless printer thingy I bought. Holy cows, how the hell do ya hook it up? Mess around with it last night for a couple hour when I come to the conclusion....it ain't gonna work. Well, maybe it ain't. I got it to finally hook up to the router, but that ain't what I want. Don't need no stink'n router when ya got a wireless computer. Today I gonna try to install all the set up stuff on the computer from CD disc an' see what it do. Damn, why they make this stuff so complicated....change this setting, change this change that, hook up this hook up that....and the damn thing still don't work. Where's help when ya need it??? Yeah I read the freak'n instruction.....a hunnert time an' still don't understand a damn thing.

Was gonna do laundry today but decided to vacuum instead. Takes less time ya know and the laundry will still be there when I get back to Deming. Stink a little, but what the hell, I still got plenty underdrawers left. Ya see, I got a inventory of underdrawers of bout 30 pairs what will last bout 6 months or so if'n I'm conservative an' don't change too offen. Ain't got no date scheduled for the next few weeks, so I'm good to go.

2:30pm.......Ok, so no ones interested.

Well, Billy Bob done bit the bullet and relocated that damn wireless printer.....under a chair on the nasty dirt collect'n floor. Gonna hook it up with a wire......Oh no, not more wires. Holy Jesus, I got too many damn wires hook up to my laptop already. Us'n 3 USB connections and need one more. Damn....this sucks.

Got the floors all vacuum up. Look like a brand spank'n new floor now. Well it did until Sadie May brung in some more grass an' crap from outside. Changed the license plates on "da house". I were just get'n to remember what the numbers was and they send me a new set....with different numbers an' letters. Sheesh!!!

Got it pretty much figger out where I gonna go from here. Inks Lake State Park. Catch me up some fish this time an' not sink the "bubba boat". But that decision is subject to change. At my age, all I got to do is say I forgot where I was go'n and go somewheres else.

Ok, on with the printer installation.

New gadgets

I'm gonna start this morn'n with a little story bout "grudges". You know what I'm talk'n bout....somebody says something to ya what ya ain't expect'n them to say, so's ya throws the old grudge trick on 'em. I have a cousin. Lives in California, not that that would make any difference. One time as a teenager, I says to her..."Margaret, you're cute but you're fat" Oh my God, should'a never say that. When my Uncle died in 2004 I think it was, she still would not talk to me. Over 40 years she carries that grudge. And to this day, she still fat. Don't do it folks. Ain't worth it. Watch what ya say an' don't be toss'n "grudges" round like they was nurf balls.

Ok here the deal. I were gonna make a comment on this Boze sound system I bought yesterday. It were gonna be something like this..."OH YEAH....OH YEAH.....KNOCK YER SOCKS OFF"!!!!! Now ya got to know old Billy Bob and understand him and his ways. I ain't say'n this system ain't good, 'cause it is. It's fantastic. Clear and crisp. LOUD. All the good stuff you would expect from a 'spensive Boze sound system. But ya got to understand, old Billy Bob had his eye on a different system...one what has the power to rattle the winders and doors off the neighbors house a block away. That's what I'm talk'n bout. Hmmmmm, how can I modify this system to do what I want it to do???

Now bout that wireless printer I bought. Well hell, ya gotta have a wifi router for it to work without wires. Well I got me one them router thingys an' I got a 100 page booklet of instructions. Sheesh.....what the hell did I buy? I don't even use a printer. But it got one them flat top "sit on take a picture yer butt" thingys....what ever it called.

Ok....I'm out of here for a bit......back laters with excit'n news and nonsense.