Amarillo sucked. Well, not really. We went to the most beautiful park and the kids made some friends and observed a dead fish and tons of geese. A lovely gentleman gave the kids a handmade puzzle with a couple dollars in it right before we headed out to the TA to get some fuel. We didn’t get any there, and got kicked out of the Pilot up the road the next morning too, so we went to the Walmart and sat behind Whataburger. I had myself a dance party and wrote “Miracles pending…” on the chalkboard.
Amarillo is overrun with spangers and crime, I didn’t feel safe staying the night in mid town, especially after speaking to a lovely lady that’s been vanlifing it on her disability money locally and had her back window busted out within the ten minutes she had walked to the gas station. They’d been watching her and busted her window just for a couple blankets. So we headed down the road to a truckstop where I looked at a map and saw we were right by the VW slug bug ranch, so we stayed there for the night and had a nighttime exploration where I made Atreyu read bad graffiti. In the morning I woke early and did lots of pictures. You can find them here: https://youtu.be/hE2hzgIx1yQ
After that we drove to Shamrock. What a beautiful town I want to explore more, but their grocery market was bomb and the people took some time but were nice once they warmed up to me. An awesome lady I gave my business card to was super sweet and taken and encouraged us to check out downtown. Really some amazing vibes before sundown. We also took some pictures infront of some historiv route 66 conoco tower.
I felt like it was a super educational day for the kids in general. Atreyu read multiple books, we discussed some multiplication and what DNA does concerning our dogs and then how it defines humans. We saw beautiful things and had music and discussions about feelings. Covering a broad range of subjects to be expanded on in the future.
We pulled over and made potato soup, feasted and then drove the last stretch to meet up with Peaches.
So, somethings that been on my mind is that I probably put my foot in my mouth on the last post. Brittany messaged me to make sure I know they weren’t hinting at my leaving and would’ve enjoyed us staying longer. I really love them and feel honored that she reads what I write. I just feel that I wasn’t kind enough about her kids. Did I put too much emphasis on the little annoyance I had as an anecdote? Did I fail to mention that I observed them having many full and preoccupied happy days of kid cooperation? Did I age the eldest wrong? They’re not the kind of people to probably take offense to small nuances; they’re amazing. I know I’m overthinking it a little, but that’s why it’s going on here, to free up my mind space… I just want to make sure everybody knows how amazing I find this family. How great it was to have Atreyu have a computer friend and Galixy having someone to learn kid politics and play ‘family’ with. I thoroughly enjoy Brittany’s company and Andy’s cool too. I’m gushing cause it’s a mini crush of love and appreciation and I don’t want any previous anecdote making this unclear in any way.
So, here I am, morning time in Elk City, Oklahoma. Peaches is going super slow and letting themselves be deterred by everything. It’s amini detour in the name of friendship and company. The kids are ecstatic to see Peaches, Galixy just sat on his lap and hugged him for an hour. We’re sitting on his fullsized new bus and the kids are jumping around looking at stickers, waiting to play on Peaches’ gameboy while I’m here typing and listening to Ben, Dean, Peaches and the kids. We want to head back through Texas maybe through Corpus Christi and then along the gulf of mexico into Florida. It’s a loose sketch of thoughts, but the thoughts are helpful as the future is unknown anyway.
My mom updated my data plan to make my work easier. I know I’ve mentioned my issues with storage and saving things for my youtubes, so now we had another issue that I needed to update my iOS to save things or upload. I have worked for a few hours stretched over a few days and had little to no movement on what I wanted, but now I feel like the block is out and we’re gonna bust out some awesomeness. So, stay tuned, we’re getting healthy and routined.
Yeah, I feel like this is a mess of a post, but… whatever. We’ll all be ok.
I have to pee again and it’s getting urgent so I’m just wrapping this up for now, I think I covered everything I wanted, but there’s always the future posts if not, so I’m sending YOU love.
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