Day 183

After a stop at the post office to mail off the taxes we drove to San Antonio.  The trip down did not go well.  I missed the I35 exit on 290 and had to drive 5 miles to get turned around.  Then the damn GPS voice input wouldn't work.  Finally I had to pull off and do it by hand.  When we got to San Antonio the GPS didn't have up to date info on the exit we needed (it was under construction).  So that was another detour while we drove miles farther and then doubled back.

The show itself was cool, except for the $7 parking fee.  It was a whole different set of vendors than the Saxet show.  There were some cool old guns (overpriced) and some really cheap AR's.  We decided to buy a 22/45 Lite that both of us liked the look of.  While we were buying it Bill Misch was buying one, too.  We talked with him for almost an hour.  He's broke up with his wife and is living in New Braunfels.  He's also back at Crimson Trace.

The way back was better.  The GPS again routed us through construction.  Only this time the entrance was closed and we had to use the frontage road to the next one.  The road was empty and it allowed us to get all the way around the traffic backup.  Cool. 

We stopped at New Braunfels on the way back to go to the train show.  Ellen stayed in the car.  They show was about the same as always.  There was a good selection of N scale cars, but almost no buildings.  One guy had high prices and another two had good ones.  I bought one car that I've wanted for a long time, but had never seen.

One story I forgot from when we were in Kerrville:  I've been trying to buy a snow plow tender on ebay for years.  I've been looking hard for the last 6 months.  One finally came up last week, but the auction ended on Tuesday night at 11.  I won the auction (money talks).  However, I had the Oregon PO box set as the shipping address.  I had to quickly email the seller and tell him to send it to Texas.  He did and I got it today.  It's exactly what I wanted.  Of course just after I bought it another vendor listed both the plow and the tender kits together at the same price.  Oh well.

We got home about 6.  I unloaded the car and then did nothing for the rest of the evening.  We watched the new Avengers movie and went to bed.