What is it they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? Our plan was to get up early and be on the road home by six a.m. Well, we were up on time, finished putting the last few bags in the car, turned off the water, locked up the house and were backing out of the driveway at six a.m. sharp. John and I were very proud of ourselves that we got everything done and were leaving on time.

As we turned left out of the fort toward Del Rio, there was just a very slight mist. However, the closer we got to Del Rio, the harder the rain fell. By the time we reached the outskirts of town, we were in the middle of a major rain storm. John had to drive slowly and carefully because of flooding on the highway and as it was still dark, you couldn't tell how deep the water was on the road. After creeping along for a few minutes, we decided to scrap our plan of breakfast in Sonora and instead stopped at Mac Donald's in Del Rio. We would eat breakfast there and hopefully by the time we were finished, it would be light out and the rains would slow down. Well, we ended up sitting there for over an hour--the rains just kept coming and coming. We had a nice visit with a gentleman who had walked to Mac Donald's for his morning coffee and was also waiting out the rain.

We could not believe how flooded the streets were in Del Rio. There were fire trucks and police cars all over the town. The rains had finally let up so we ventured out. It took us about half an hour just to get out of town. We had to keep trying different streets and backtracking around the deep water. Since our car is so low to the ground, we had to be very careful where we drove--we saw several cars stuck in deep water.

It was well after 9 a.m. before we were on the road again. We kept running into heavy rains all day which slowed our travel time. We had planned to reach the northern border of Oklahoma by this evening--instead we only made it to Chickasha, OK. Since we would hit Oklahoma City at rush hour we decided to stop for the night. So much for our well laid plans--tomorrow is another day!