Traveling while accommodating limitations

Plan to travel the United States in My Chevy volt since she uses little fuel and I can see places that I cannot see from the water plus air conditioning will keep my body from cramping while I am traveling I hope.
we're going back to last week I will just talk about what I did after the art museum.

Jim and I drove back to Port Aransas and we had dinner at the Fins restaurant I had grilled sole and shrimp. it was good. 
We slept in the marina parking lot.
In the morning we took the ferry and drove over to Rockport Jim wash clothes and I looked at my land and then went over to see Miss Pharrell at steering company real estate to sign the papers so we can put our land up for sale.
We drove back to Port Aransas and at 1:00 coming over to Farley boat works to work on my tiller. The fellow at Farley boat works helped me to trim the broken part of the tiller off. I sanded it to it's the proper shape, then we mounted the accoutrement to the tiller. Finally last we drilled a hole for the mounting bolt in the end. Since I didn't have the boat nearby to make a good measurement we drilled it in the wrong place.
When I return to the boat and tried to mount the tiller to the rudder I found it would not work.
So we decided to drive to Seguin to see M'liss Richie and my mother.
The trip was uneventful, but hot.
I carried pickles with me as well as some Gatorade so by drinking Gatorade and eating pickles I staved off the cramps and made it to Seguin just fine.
I showed Melissa and Richie the boat and Richie said it's big and heavy and I agreed. I told him my sad story and they fed me and Jim grilled pork chops have a wonderful. I turned in early slept all night.
 The next day I got up, i went outside to get stuff out of the truck. When I saw this lizard on the Harrington barn.
 Richie fed us breakfast of sausage toast and eggs, and we were off.
We visited Patsy Bodine for a couple of hours. Then drove home.
While i was a M'liss' house i thought the boat's tires were low.
I didn't attend to them. Once I had reached Austin Mopac just south of the river I had a blowout. I had the pleasure of spending 45 minutes to an hour lying on hot concrete jacking up the boat removing the blown tire and putting on a new one. This effort took the use of two Jacks since I used a hydraulic jack to start it's easy to jack up but then it only goes 4 inches so I needed the scissors Jack to complete.
To avoid further blowouts I drove slowly up Lamar to the house.
Over the next day and a half we put the boat away in the backyard and the neighbor told me she liked it better back there so when I come back home and start working on the boat again I will keep that in mind.
I spent the weekend with my beautiful wife. And I asked her if she'd like to go see the mammoth national monument in Waco, she said she would.  Sunday after church, we drove up to Waco to see the mammoth national monument. We had a good time.

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