A Shaving Cream Ceiling?

Ever stay at a Travelodge Motel?  Our first time and will be out last.  We should have walked out when we saw the ceiling.  You think those popcorn ceilings in motels are bad?  This one looked like someone had taken shaving cream and smeared it on the ceiling about 3 inches thick!  I think that was to cover up something because you can see a crack that runs the length of the room.  All I could think of was an earthquake hitting and this ceiling burying us under feet of plaster or whatever they smeared up there! Okay...just don't look up I kept telling myself.  Turn the lights off, go to bed, and close your eyes and all will be fine....until.........Bill came out of the bathroom and said the toilet wouldn't flush!  Now that issue can not be ignored by closing your eyes.  Bill calls the manager (twice) to report the problem.  A knock at the door brings a (south of the border) manager and a 6 foot snake standing in our doorway.  He makes his way to the bathroom and rotorudes our commode and guarantees us it will work for our duration of the night.  If not, give him a call and we can have another room.  Why?... oh... why didn't we just leave then? Instead...we went out to dinner and had steak and lobster and returned to the shaving cream ceiling motel room with the questionable toilet.  Soon our questions would be answered with the call of nature.  Off to another motel room we went... with another shaving cream ceiling; but a toilet that flushed!

That was last night; but I had to share this with you :-)

Our room tonight is a very comfortable room, with a nice ceiling,

...and a toilet that flushes!

 

Made it to Texas!  It really doesn't look any different in the Austin area than Wisconsin.  Of course...the 6-8 inches of in rain some parts of Texas has accounted for all the greenery.  I'm sure it doesn't look like this in the

long, hot, dry summer. 

Some evidence of the overabundant amount of rainfall in the area.  This is a river overflowing its banks and covering the frontage road next to the interstate.  Luckily,  we didn't come across flooding on the roads we were on.

Oh...those Shermans are everywhere...

even in the Lone Star State.

Austin, the capital of Texas.  Some neat buildings; but couldn't see the capitol building

from the interstate.

Then....practically around the corner

 you'll see a home like this. 

Wish I knew the stories this house could tell.

I saw the sky with it's beautiful shades of pink and blue, along with the cute baby that reminded me of our new grandson and had to snap this picture.  I didn't even read the the words on the billboard

until I posted it on my blog. 

No personal views intended here.