A Week Recap

Recapping this week.

After my visit with a new shoulder surgeon on Monday and receiving his recommendation of remaining with conservative treatment - an injection into the joint, I have felt much better.

On Wednesday night, we met Dick's life-long friends, Johnny and Betty, for dinner at our favorite seafood restaurant, Anaya's.  We always enjoy our time with these friends and love hearing about their world-wide travels.  Honestly, they take the most amazing trips, so we just simply live through them.

So, now it's Friday.  What do you do when your husband walks into the room and says, "Let's take a road trip to the end of the road!"

Most would probably say, "Let's go!"

My response was, "The end of what road?"

There is a main street not far from us, that runs north & south from Dallas to the Oklahoma line, named Preston, but it ends at a lake - Lake Texoma.  Appropriate name, don't you think?

After he explained, I then answered, "Let's go!"

On the way out of the city, we first must maneuver 8-lane traffic on a Friday morning; however, since I am now a seasoned Texas driver, this was nothing.

On the way, we saw our favorite bronze cowboy still hustling longhorns.  If you haven't seen this small park in Frisco, you need to treat yourself.

It is hard to believe the amount of growth in North Texas since we moved here 5 years ago.  Highways, schools, subdivisions, and shopping centers that didn't exist then now crowd the landscape.  The new PGA golf course and other attractions have added to the area's appeal.

Before we knew it, we were out of the city and no longer on a four-lane road, bustling with new businesses, but a two-lane country road.  That's when we saw actual, real longhorns and donkeys out among the scrub trees typical of North Texas.

Before we knew it, the road narrowed even more, and we began to see the lake on both sides of us.  We continued onto a small peninsula, which gave us great views of this beautiful lake.

And sure enough, that was the end of the road.

On the trip back, we detoured into Sherman, TX, and treated ourselves to lunch at an old Dairy Queen, one of Texas's original eateries.

This was such a fun day trip, and we wonder why we don't do that more often.  Actually, who knows what else we might find at the end of another road leading somewhere.