July 01, 2005
Trip to the North American's, Day 1
I'm retrospectively posting my notes from my trip to the 2005 NACR. I made some of these notes during the trip, and some afterwards due to time constraints or just plain laziness. I hope who ever reads this from the Day Sailer.org site gets something out of this and will consider going to future NACRs if they have not gone before. If nothing else it's a great vacation, with lots of good times, minor adventures, and lessons learned about how to travel with a boat on a trailer. - B.H. 7/23/05
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I left home at 3:24pm CDT. I picked K. up at her work at 4:16pm, and we made reasonable time even though we immediately veered from our planned course. Instead of following I-10 to Kerrville, we took Beltway 8 around the city to the north. At the north side of the city, I got a low coolant indicator which I had seen earlier in the week, and we pulled into a parking lot and topped off the reservoir with some prestone I had bought just in case. After that no problems were noted. We took US 290 towards Austin, and made it there by dusk. We continued on to Johnson City and Fredericksburg, arriving in Kerrville at 10:45pm. Austin, johnson city and Fredericksburg are in the hill country of Texas which is very differnet from the coastal plain of Houston. It's still warm, but not as humid and there are more deer to be seen in the area.
