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
It was the Crickets
Now then: it isn't so much that one way of dying beats another, though that certainly is the case, but rather that when you KNOW the jig could be up any second or any decade -- it's the awareness that's important -- that just might make a difference. I'm like everybody else, I have these moments and then forget, lapsing back into "immortality." But there was a thing that happened in my back yard maybe 18 months before we split from Maryland that hit me as hard as seeing their president drop dead on stage must have hit those graduating seniors.
It was the crickets. I'd gone outside one warm fall evening to shut the garage door and suddenly realized I couldn't hear the crickets! No wait, I could, but only if I turned my head a certain way. Oh God, oh no: I had almost no high-frequency hearing in my right ear, or was it my left? That doesn't matter. The point is, a part of me had shut down permanently. No, it hadn't happened suddenly, but I had finally noticed, and that was hard to take. I'd never again hear crickets like I once had. Never! I walked back to the house in tears. All right, I'm sensitive. But I understood at once what all this meant.