Oh, we have one more query regarding Paul's rattlesnake bite. Here he is convalescing at the Fort Davis Cavalry outpost medical center in Texas. Our question to a medical expert is: have you ever known antivenin treatments to darken the skin and make you look like Richard Pryor? Why not Pancho Villa? Or Milli-Vanilli? Is that also possible? Personally I believe that it's improved Paul's looks but he insisted on ditching the hospital garb and stealing away in the middle of the night so back on the road we go, eschewing further antivenin treatments. Alright, for you tea-baggers, look up the words "eschew" and "but" and "a" and "the". You might learn sumpin.
Course, first thing we see back on I-10 is more snake stuff which is the last stuff we need. We have enough snakes and scorpions. Some damn Texan suggested we get an armadillo. Put it in the trailer overnight. They have a highly acute sense of smell and natural body armor that protects them from predators.
They can hunt down snakes and scorpions, kill 'em and eat 'em. So we've given it a try but like Daisy, the armadillo just jumped up on the bed and now sleeps with us. So here we are rolling east along I-10 with snakes, scorpions, Daisy and an armadillo. But they really are loving little creatures that the Texans consider quite a delicacy. Is any of this funny?
Armadillos have a peculiar odor so now Daisy runs around the RV wearing her radiation fallout mask and preparing for the next suggested way to rid the trailer of vermin. We were told to drive the trailer into the Gulf and give it a good saltwater bath.
Yeah, that one sure worked. Hit a shrimper's net...(actually, this is what is considered high yard art in the town of Van Horn, Texas, right next door to Chuy's Mexican Restaurant popularized by sportscaster John Madden on his motorcoach trips across the U.S.).
Once again we're back in the oil-rich ("Texas tea" is oil) conservative bible belt where cable systems block out pro-Obama channels like MSNBC, CNBC, anything with NBC in it. Instead, you get what you see here: Lawrence Welk, the Christian right, or 24-hour harangues against President Obama on Fox News.
And lest you think we're exaggerating about the attitude down here, this is a common sight--anti-Democrat, pro-tea bagger (i.e., Republican) yard art. This guy had a third sign...
proclaiming to be a proud member of the Texas Farm Bureau. So what you have here sort of says it all. "I'm a tea-baggin', whiny ass, birther-farmer who's afraid Obama is going to take my precious farm subsidy away and I won't be able to live the good life in town while my land outside of town sits fallow. Waah!!" Hey, tea-baggers, look up "fallow". But if you watch Fox News, which is all we had to watch, yesterday Sunday, April 3rd, we saw that Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is proposing major cuts in farm subsidies, not President Obama. But, what the hell, let's blame Obama anyway. Otherwise those tea-baggin' wienie-waggers are likely to be sitting on the sidelines for another four years come 2012.
I wish we could have snapped a photo of a pickup truck we saw in Fort Davis with anti-Obama stickers plastered all over it. Signs like "Obamanos", "Nobama", "Obamanation". This guy, as it turned out, was a contract worker doing restoration work at the fort. If Obama goes, so goes his job. But then he didn't strike us as the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Moving east down I-10 toward Houston, we made a call to an RV park and gave our name. They seemed as excited as hell to find that Paul Ryan would be staying there. Course they thought my Paul was that midget of a tea-baggin' congressman from Wisconsin. Can't tell you how disappointed they were when the real Paul Ryan showed up. And what a park it was. The sign out front sort of said it all. The place was full of FEMA trailers and fire ants. It sat right on the interstate, big rigs rolling by all night long. But then it was only $75 a night. We did meet some nice folks there and I guess that's what travel across this great nation of ours is all about regardless of whether you have teeth or not.
Oh, I'm able to post a few photos now.
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