November 4th - -
Mathis Texas Weather – O/C 21C
Total Kilometers this trip – 7323.3
Kilometers today - 0
Last night was the day we changed the clock back, that meant
we had an extra hour sleep, we went to bed early, but somehow, it still seemed
that we did not get enough sleep – HMMMM how does that work.
Powell got up at 7:30am, he thought it was 6:30am but we
went for breakfast anyway, alas, to find the other guys and ladies there as
well. After breakfast we went to a
friend’s house called Ken, he has numerous old cars such as Packards, Rolls
Royce, Ambassador, Fords, Chevrolets, Oldsmobiles, Buicks and a Tucker. He also has some older trucks, Rio,
International COE, which has been changed into a pickup truck with a 5.9l Cummins
engine – all of these were very nice vehicles.
Char and Vadie went to church and we worked on Powell’s bus
a little, then met them at Van’s for lunch.
After lunch we headed out to look at a job for Powell, then
headed into Corpus Christie mainly to take a tour of the USS Lexington – an older
aircraft carrier which has been turned into a museum.
The Blue Ghost - as the ship is called
Aircraft on flight deck
Barber's chair
Dentist
cut open torpedo
emergency equipment
Vadie, Powell and Char on flight deck
Looking from bridge deck
mockup of airplane
We toured Corpus Christie a little bit and also did a little
bit of shopping, stopping at the Sears store to pick up a socket which I had
misplaced as well as buying some drill bits.
Oil refinery
Ocean view homes
We had supper at Luby’s, a cafeteria style restaurant, the
food tasted very good.
We headed home and as the norm in the evening, we played
cards.
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