Had a great Halloween weekend. Started off with the San Antonio Zombie Walk from Hemisfair Plaza down to the Alamo. A short little shuffle/limp/stump drag down through the middle of touristy downtown and stopped in front of the Alamo. My group of friends generally went for a "dead super hero" theme. I didn't have too much time to prep, so I went and bought a black fleece shirt and spray painted a Punisher symbol onto it. Add some zombie makeup and prosthesis and voila!


zombie walk was a good time.


Halloween day I took the motorcycle out for a long ride and stopped and stocked up on provisions on the way home. Ready for Halloween!


my roommate wore her oversized, googly-eyed skeleton costume and I put on my Headless Horsemen costume and moderned it up a bit for the trick or treaters:


good times. We both noted how it's not quite the same as when we were younger and the whole neighborhood would get into Halloween with lots of houses passing out candy and decorating. Maybe only seven houses on our street were doing it..but we had a fair number of kids and parents come by and we had a good time.



Today I took the motorcycle out for another ride. I found a polling place on the far edge of the country with lots of nice back roads to get there and went to vote. Then I rewarded myself for doing my civic duty by going to one of my favorite truck stops for chicken fried steak and home-made ice cream.


getting ready for a short two day camping trip after the weekend at Lost Maples, Texas. It's probably one of the only places in Texas where the mass of foliage changes for the season. Hence its name. We've had a couple of cold spells, so there should be some red and orange going.