Friday morning dawns bright and early at you know, 10AM. We decited to pack up first then get breakfast. Fortunatly I had already done most of the packing the previous night. All that was left was to take down my hammock, reassemble the bed, and clean out the last of the trash, food, and dishes that where mine. Most of which we did not want. We briefly droped by our neighboring appartment to drop off some of the food in the fridge of an unsuspecting room mate who would be there for some weeks. After that we hopped in the car spending as little time in the sun as possible and checked out at the main office. Now that I have left, I can reveal that I stayed on the 4th floor of building 6 at lovely Momentum Village. I highly recomend the rooms there. From there we had a few stops. First to the HEB to drop of a now empty 5 gallon water bottle that was too big for the car, while there, we bought 5 gallons of water and used it to fill a 3 gallon tank (we are going to be driving through a desert in August in a 20 year old car afterall) and all our water bottles. Then off to find some breakfast at Good Ol Jason's Deli for some last minute Texas Style Baked potatoes. Man I will miss those. Over a nice breakfast Ice Tea I explain to dad about Texans. See, Texans are interesting and hard to describe. I have finialy found a good one liner for explaining texas. Now I dont want any of my friends in texas to be insulted by this, you are all great people. But Texans are Very Polite Ass Holes. Now that might sound like a contradiction in terms, but its actually not. Texans will Smile and wish you a nice day as they cut you off in traffic. They will just leave a cart in the parking lot and wave to you as you go by. At one point I saw a Texas Driver pass Jason's Truck and steal a parking spot he was lining up on. She then got out and pleasently went about her business. She probiably even waved to us. And that is why Polite Ass Holes. They are increadably nice here, especialy when they are doing something rude. Its like they dont even notice that what they are doing is rude in any way. This is a good lense to look at Texans through, and this way you wont be supprized when you watch some one leave their cart in the parking lot.
After "breakfast" we headed to the good will to drop off some dishes that I am not taking home, the post office to mail some letters, and lastly to a hat shop for Dad to do some shoping. I did find a gallon yeti cooler, but decited to pass. Next time. 
We didnt find a hat alas and our last stop on the way out of town was a brief drive by of the USS Lexington. Then it is back to trying to find a highway. We eventually found one, and from there we started our inevitable way towards the unavoidable, San Antonio. However, this time it was not Google who insisted on this route, but me. There is an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in San Antonio and I was determined to get Dad to it. I convinced Dad that I would do all the city driving there so he was fine with it. We started off in that direction with me at the wheel.
Now, at this point I feel I should explain some very immportant things about driving in Texas. First and most importantly, people will not slow down for ANYTHING. If the sign says 45, we are doing 45, and you can bet the guy behind you is doing 46. Fortunatly, all the highways and turns are designed for this mentality. This includes all of the following features. In Texas when a highway "intersects" another highway there is 1 and exactly 1 exit for said highway. This exit has a nasty looking Y split right in the middle of it. Take the right Y if you wanted to turn right on to the crossing highway and the left for left. There is generaly 1-3 lanes per one of these and if you know about this Y it is easy to pick the wrong lane on the free way. The left branch follows a arching curve with recomended speed of 55 (as apposed to 70) The right is similar, but you can generaly do it at 70.
Next is the access road. Parralelling each highway in a city is an access road. This access road is 45mph and has regular on ramps and off ramps to the highway. It is also 1 way and split in half so the highway runs down the middle of the split. The highway stops for nothing, but the access road has regular arterial intersections.
This brings us to the 3rd important fact, U-Turn lanes. Google maps does not use these, she just has you make 2 lefts, however the highway engineeres recognized that people would need to switch sides of the access road in a hurry and so built in a dedicated, isolated, U-Turn lane at every single intersecition on the access roads. This lane bypasses any lights, has a full crash baricade to prevent miss understandings with other traffic, and always has a yeld sign for on comming traffic, oh and generally a good view of said on comming traffic. These U-Turn lanes are built to be the same speed as the attatched access road.
Lastly you never have to get on a highway in a city if you dont want, the access road will take you every where you need save over bridges. You can use it to bypass any highway intersection if you so choose.
If you are traveling in Texas it is important to know these things as it makes driving much easier. I had picked up these things after 10 weeks of driving. My Dad however was blissfully ignorant of such niceties.
P.S. If you are building a highway system from scratch, I highly recomend these practices.
Once you know these simple rules, city driving in Texas is easy unless it is rush hour. As we aproached the beautifull city of San AndGoogleWantsYouToGoHere Dad was taking a much needed and well deserved nap. He was gently waking up just in time for me to take a highway interchange ramp's left lane at "Warp" (70 slowing to 60 for the fly over part) followed by a merge into the traffic from the other direction, then a merge onto the highway its self. This had a rather shaking effect on him and I belive rather spoiled his nap. What follows has gone down in his Redacted memory banks as "The Spin Cycle." I have included a diagram bellow as reconstructed from google maps' time line feature. The red line is our path.
1. "Highspeed" exit from highway on to access road, (70 mph scaling down to 45 on the ramp). This thoroughly woke him up from what was left of his nap just in time for us to hit 2. "Highspeed" U-turn (only 45, the lane was zoned for that) in to merging on to the access road going the other way. A few merges later and we arive at 3. 3 was a bit dodgy, I had to make a right turn into the parking lot of the theater. As I have explained Texas drivers dont slow down. Even when you are indicating a turn and gently applying the break. So we made what should have been a 25-30 mph turn at 45. 
I have had to do such a turn no less than 6 times when I have been down here. Thrice into my appartment driveway (Tricky, its 35 in, but only 100 feet to shed all momentum, fortunatly the turn helps), one of these was with Dad last night. Once into a mall, one other time at the hat store this very day.
As we coasted into a parking spot Dad is out the door and kissing solid reliable asfault, that is until he realized that is still 90 degrees and something like 70% humidity out here and half his body tried to climb back into the air conditioned car. I gently escourted him to the shade and thence into the air conditioned lobby of our theater. We where about an hour early so I gave him time to peruse the gift shop before explaining the way the highway is layed out here in Texas. This helped calm him down.
We then enjoyed our movie, Spiderman Far from Home over some burger and a shot of Irish Cream. The great thing about a dinner theater is you are going to be there for 3 hours anyway. My body (well, most peoples really) will completely process 1 drink of alcholol in 1 hour. So for me by the end of a movie there is no lasting effects as long as I only have 1 drink. Which is a good thing, because we are still in the middle of a "hostile environment" i.e. Large city, and I am going to need to drive us out of it.
So its back on the road for round 2. This time Dad has been properly briefed on texas driving. Unfortunatly due to one thing and another we missed our exit for highway to San Anjelo. Again refering to included diagram. 1 is where the exit was, the blue path is the intended path and red is the actual path. Having missed our exit at 1 I did the next best thing, I went streight through the spagetti at 2 and to the first avaliavble access road exit at 3, then another highspeed U-Turn at 4. Dad has not gotten use to these yet and still expected me to hit something despite this particualr U-Turn lane having its own ENTIRE BRIDGE (Yes really) to its self. Followed by 5 a Y split in the access road and 6 a nice smooth merge onto the highway.
A brief repetition on the highway layout and some time to study the map and Dad was doing... ok. I drove us the rest of the way to Junction. Which is an interesting name for a town to say the least. From there we swapped drivers and Dad put his new knowledge to the test by driving to San Angelo. Sufice it to say, he has not completly mastered the concepts, and after this that and the other thing, and the fact that no parking lots connect in Texas we made our round about way to our hotel, the only entrance to it being on a one way the wrong way. Easy enough to fix with a U-Turn lane, but you try telling that to someone who hasnt used one before, after midnight, durring a long trip, and can see the hotel sigh RIGHT THERE! We stayed in the La Quinta again, but I honestly cant remember anything about it other than setting up my hammock and crashing. I do know it was right across an inconvenient median from a Whataburger, so at least we have somewhere to grab a nice breakfast in the morning when we sleep past the provided one.
Day 74