Catching up: Louisiana, Houston, bedbugs and tomatoes from hell
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 19:09 Well, I’m back and I can tell you that nearly a week away from this constant Angle-Reid battle would have been a breath of fresh air had it not been for the oppressive, demoralizing heat and humidity of Texas and Louisiana. They were pitching their August worst.
Checking the status of seats available on the flight I would be taking out of Lafayette, Louisiana to Memphis, to Salt Lake City to Reno, the availability of empty seats for a pass rider was starting to look grim. The flights were all showing ‘over-sold’ with long stand-by lists - I started to panic. I couldn’t imagine spending one more miserable sweaty day there.
You would have to pay me a LOT of money, as in a boatload, to leave the high, dry western states.
Then there was the bedbug thing.
With all the news reports about bedbugs infesting the hotels around the country, I was paranoid about my room in Houston. Twice I was up in the middle of the night, pulling up the corners of the bottom sheet, peering intently around the mattress cording. I would fall back to sleep - sorta - thinking that I felt ‘something’ on an ankle.
