taco's & toucan's travels ~ 2019

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DAY 3

Week 1

CORINTH (Texas, USA)

Sunday March 17^th, 2019

TODAYS MILEAGE – 14 miles / 23 kilometres

TRIP MILEAGE – 9,788 miles / 15,752 kilometres

Thankfully the excitement and drama of yesterday was not repeated, as it turned out to be a laid back and lazy Sunday that culminated in a sit-down family dinner.

I trundled off around 9AM and seeing as I was unable to locate an appropriate house of worship on this recognised day of the Sabbath, I decided to go check out how the Denton area had changed in my decade long absence – plenty I might add.

I also had an underlying goal of locating a 3 pin cloverleaf electrical cable, that allows me to recharge my laptop without having the need to use a travel adapter. With this in mind, I ended up at a Best Buy store and in trying to explain what I require, I was looking into the eyes of the young female assistant and seeing straight into the back of her head. I’m like I've lost this sheila, at which point she says “I'm sorry, I can’t understand you.”

After all these years, I’m pretty confident that English is my first language and as I hadn't been drinking, I was reasonably assured that I was coherent, but the more I tried explaining, the more confused she seemed to get. What’s the old saying "All English speaking countries are afflicted by same common issue – English!" Rather than exacerbate the problem, thought I’d just let it go and find another supplier.

The afternoon was filled with sorting out the petrol powered pressure washer that Bek had borrowed that was severely lacking in servicing, fuel and oil. Sorting all that out and unravelling the collapsed hose caddy then allowed us to spend the best part of a couple of hours removing several years of grime from the paved rear deck.

The highlight for me was hanging with the niece and nephew in preparing a couple of side dishes for dinner in which they not only fully participated in, but also said they liked some of the ingredients that they initially screwed their faces up at, when first tasting them.

I had to laugh as both Myah and Mikey are probably thinking “who is this big funny talking boofhead, whose dropped from the heavens and is taking up our Sunday afternoon with food prep???”