Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - San Marcos TX
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Faulty Throttle Position Sensor, December 24, 2008
Travel route for the day
From Brenham TX I went
- South on TX 36 about 1 mile then
- West on TX 109 about 10 miles to Industry TX then
- West on TX 159 about 25 miles to La Grange TX then
- West on TX 71 about 20 miles to Smithville TX then
- South on TX 95 about 1 mile then
- South on TX 535 about 16 miles to Rockne TX then
- South on TX 20 about 25 miles to Fentress TX then
- West on TX 80 about 12 miles
To San Marcos TX
Get directions and a Google map of this route
Night camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in San Marcos TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter in San Marcos TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #404, 1015 Hwy 80, San Marcos, TX 78666 - (512) 353-0617
- This store has a nice, level parking lot.
- Verizon cell phone service - yes, excellent signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - yes, excellent signal
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Waiting
I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans,turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunich in the background standing guard. Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood