Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Feeling rather apt these days....

Favorite Star Trek: The Original Series episode?

I felt like watching TOS, and put on one of my fave episodes, The Immunity Syndrome.

It's a very good sci-fi episode, where the characters are faced with something so perplexing they don't know how to handle it, and have to learn and understand their way through the first half of the show.

Once they figure it out, it goes from Sci-Fi to character drama as they need to figure out who is best to deal with the problem and the reactions to possibly losing that person. And finally a last ditch fix that could legitimately end with the deaths of everyone while attempting to save the universe.

The effects are also pretty good for 1968.

It's a really great episode among great episodes, and for me, the one that stands out when I think of TOS.

Ah, Seven Can Soup. When you need a lot of food, very cheaply, right now.

Apparently, we've encountered Romulans on this flight, and have gone to Red Alert. SHIELDS UP!

On the ground in Las Vegas. My window is filthy.

Phone comparison

It's not often I get to pull out the laptop on a flight, and certainly not comfortably. This is what my laptop usually looks like on these trips....

Also: MOOPSY.

Who says Southwest doesn't have business class?

On the ground in El Paso with a two hour lay over.

Oh hey. Schlotzsky's at the airport. Don't mind of I do.

Well, I'm not hurting for entertainment. I can play some catch up....

Well since my flight is two hours delayed, I may as well grab one last one for the road...

These posters look like I asked AI to give me pictures of David Tenant as The Doctor reaching towards the camera and it gave me several to choose from....

The final schools: Willow City and Crabapple

Inside the totally restored Rheingold Teacherage

The Rheingold School and Teacherage

The Cave Creek School

The Albert, Junction and Nebgen Schools.

The Luckenbach and South Grape Creek Schools.

I had one last day in Texas, and I'd seen most everything I felt safe enough to see. So I asked the folks what THEY wanted to see. Dad wanted to see the Gillespie County schools. So we went, and saw as many as we could given the constraints of the day.

They'll do the ones they missed some other time.

Rural schools are fascinating. Imagine walking miles to your nearest school, all grades in one room, learning your three Rs, and if you were lucky more (only need the three Rs for working the fields).

Or being a school teacher. A young woman, coming out to the country to teach, staying in a small house for the week next to the school before heading back to town for the weekend. Often in the middle of nowhere.

It's a very different world we live in 140 years later.

Here are the Muesbach Creek School, and the Grapetown School and Teacherage.

The fairly well cared for ghost town of Morris Ranch. Once a thoroughbred horse raising powerhouse, now a collection of weathered but still standing buildings.