In Enemy Territory -- Fri., Mar. 8

Intrepidly wearing our red colors, we infiltrated behind enemy lines. The security detail yelled to the crowd that Portland Trailblazer fans would have a hard time getting into the arena (AT&T Center). Let the trash talking begin.

With that welcome, we made our way to our seats one row from the top of the arena. We were surrounded by San Antonio Spurs fans.  (Thank you to Stephanie at Bob's work who won season Spurs tickets. She has been kind enough to share them with other people in the office.)

Our minds ever hopeful, we thought positive thoughts and hoped for the best. If you've been following the Portland Trailblazers this season, that's all you can do.

However, the Blazers turned it on tonight. We were surprised, then delighted, then amazed. The Trailblazers kept up with the Spurs and then blasted them to smithereens. Thank you to the skitterbug, #30, Damian Lillard, who scored **35** points, and had nine assists, three rebounds and two steals. He was everywhere. Wow. Final score 136-106. It was the spurs second worst home loss EVER.

Damian wasn't the only Blazer to put up big numbers. LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points, J.J. Hickson had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Eric Maynor had 20 points off the bench. Whee! What a fun game to watch.

Since we've been in San Antonio, we've had the opportunity to go to a few Spurs games. The arena tonight was the quietest we've ever heard it. Spurs fans know how to bring the house down...when they're winning, that is.

As Bob said, normally when we go to the Spurs games we cheer for the Spurs. But having lived in Oregon for over 35 years, the Blazers are still "our" team. So on the one night the Blazers play in the AT&T Center, if we happen to be at the game, we cheer for the Blazers behind enemy lines.

Tonight was Military Appreciation Night at the game. Many tributes were made to those in the Armed Forces who serve our country. Wounded Warriors had courtside seats for the game.

We had a super fun evening.

On a different note, Bob has his second upper respiratory infection (URI) in about a month. He hadn't finished coughing from his first one, when he came down with this one earlier in the week. Bummer for him. I felt bad for him tonight with his runny nose and coughing. So far I have not caught it.

I'll end this blog with a photo of Bowie sleeping peacefully in "his" box.

Infiltrating agents Travel Bug and Bob out.

Trailblazers & Texas Twang

This morning we washed our 5er, Bob's truck and my car while it was early and cool. The amount of bugs our vehicles collect is staggering.

Once our chores were complete and the 5er hooked up to the truck, we left rustic River Oaks RV Riverside Resort and headed to a real RV resort: Buckhorn Lake Resort in Kerrville, Texas. The drive took us about 1-1/2 hours.

We checked in about 12:15 p.m., picked up our forwarded mail, and settled into our site. Laundry was at the top of my list for this afternoon and we finished that by 4:00 p.m.

Tonight, we went to the Portland Trailblazers vs San Antonio Spurs basketball game at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. More on that later.

Much more interesting is Texas twang or "How do you say that?" When we checked into the RV resort, I mentioned that we had been to Gruene (which I pronounced grew-knee). The clerks had no clue what I was talking about. So I explained where the town was located and asked them how to pronounce it. They told me it's pronounced "green."

Also included in my Texas twang lesson were the following:

Bexar is pronounced "bear."

Boerne is pronounced "bernie."

Leakey is pronounced "lake-y."

Lots more to learn about speaking "Texan."

We are long-time Trailblazer basketball fans, having lived in Oregon for over 30 years. We were looking forward to being at the game tonight for the game with the San Antonio Spurs. Bob wore his Trailblazer T-shirt. Unfortunately the Blazers did not show up for the game mentally. It was ugly. The Blazers looked like they didn't know what they were supposed to be doing (things like scoring, defending, making free throws, blocking shots). I told Bob the game was so bad he was going to have to turn his Trailblazer shirt inside out. The game went to the Spurs who had a 35-point victory.

Tomorrow is another day. The RV Rally starts and lasts until Sunday, April 29. Time for this night owl to fly off to bed.