The drive here went very fast! I learned a few things while driving through some of our southern states... Mississippi and Louisiana are very odd and that Florida is great. The blinking signs and the bumpy roads (I10) were fairly comparable to the drive up a mountain in Haiti.
After all that. It was great to arrive in Texas, even if it was at 4 in the morning. We got here about 12 hours less than expected so Ed and I had some time and visited Texas A &M. There campus is SO much larger than Florida's. There animal science and farm units were extremely impressive.
This is a picture of TAMUs Beef Center... Muy Bueno
TAMUs Beef Cattle Systems Facility
They had a Goat Center!
The University Farm was beautiful. Felt like I was on a real, functional operation.
Then we made the trek to San Antonio, which is quite beautiful. The city has some nice rolling his, a river walk (to be explained later ) and gets my vote because it's cleaner than most cities.
At the end of the day when we arrived to the McAdams. Normally, when you meet the person that you are going to be working for it's nice a suit and tie environment but.. not this time. As life would have it, we came the same day that they were moving into their new house. It was a different kind of "work" environment packed with boxes and sofas.
The first few days here have been all about making a game plan for the next 2 months... along with moving but, I don't mind because it gives me time to get to know the family and pick them apart with questions.
I have also learned a few random things:
1. There's a Mexican restaurant on every corner.
2. Texans are very proud of their culture
3. People drive like me in Texas... efficiently... so it's a little hairy at times
4. Use containers. More to come on this.
5. Don't go into the woods without a stick... we walked up on a wild havana (Spanish for wild pig)
6. And I learned why Aggies yell "Gig Em"
All these will be expanded on in later posts.
This is home and work for the summer! I will be trying to record all that I can about my experiences. They have to get pretty grande because they are going to happen in the state where everything is larger.
