road trip adventures - part 7

Our trip down to San Antonio had some challenges, but I'm glad we went anyway. We did "see" The Alamo, but we didn't actually go to The Alamo. Like I said, we had some challenges. It's really cool to see though - it's right in the middle of downtown and all of these new building are built all around it.

We went to the Riverwalk and walked (a lot) and took a boat tour which was neat. The tour guide was really good and he made the trip interesting. Did you know that there are lemon, orange, and avocado trees growing all around there? He said it best when he said people don't bother to look up!

On the Riverwalk

The highlight of the trip was when we went tubing on the Comal river. Not only did the 5 of us go, but Harry insisted on bringing the dog. I told him that he is officially a hipster because that's a very hipster thing to do. All of the things I was worried about happened: the family got separated at one point, the dog kept wanting to jump out of the tube, I fell in the river off my tube, and little Harry complained pretty much the whole time (because we didn't know *exactly* where the exit would be). All that being said though, it was an adventure.

We rolled back to Bubby's house on Wednesday evening. She took Harry W. to the doctor for a follow-up this week. His CT scan is clear and they are stopping one of his medications because they are trying to determine if he has Parkinson's or if the symptoms are a side-effect of a medication he's taking. The concern is that without this medication, he may stop eating again, so if he does, they will try a different one to get him eating again. He's also recovering from a UTI which could also be causing some of his disorientation and confusion. He's also lost 3 pounds in the last few weeks which doesn't sound like much, but it's something like 3% of his body weight right now. Friday he had lunch with us so we could see him one more time before we started the journey back home.

Ready for the journey home!

It's Saturday night now and we've driven about 1/3 of the way home - because it's a long way from Texas and we can only go about 55 mph. We're in Hot Springs, Arkansas for the night. We went to a national park that had this great spring-fed river and after some coaxing, all of the kids enjoyed themselves. Tomorrow, we'll head to Chattanooga for a night or two, then we'll finally be home.