Day 5 - Sunday, February 12
Woody and I were homeward bound just as dawn was breaking. We managed to avoid any eyes during the “walk of shame” to load our luggage into the car. (Aren’t you proud of us,
@wdisney9000?)
We made one pit stop.
While the third time should have been the charm in knowing
exactly what food to order, I soon discovered I am still on the learning curve.
On our first visit, we had breakfast brisket tacos which were amazing and easy to eat in the car. (And by easy I mean not messy.) But today we’d arrived after 11 am and those were not an option.
Warm sandwiches from the Texas Round Up would be our choice for lunch.
I’d had a sliced brisket sandwich on my second visit. While delicious, the slices were large and would be better eaten with a knife and fork. I’d decided then and there my next sandwich would be
chopped brisket.
We picked up two chopped brisket sandwiches and a bag of these:
For those unaware, there are NO tables or chairs inside or outside a Buc-ee’s. Food is strictly to-go. Both prior visits I’d eaten in the car while in the parking lot. But Woody wanted to keep driving.
In theory, that sounded okay.
Until I unwrapped the first sandwich and discovered that the chopped brisket sandwich is SAUCY. Very saucy.
There was no way Woody would be able to hold one of these bad boys while driving, let alone take a bite. I ended up breaking the sandwich into bite-size pieces and feeding him, sauce covering all my fingers. (Romantic it was not!
)
As if that wasn’t messy enough, the powdered cheese on the Buc-ee’s Nug-ee’s made a paste with the sauce on my fingers.
All I could do was laugh.
Next time I’ll have plastic utensils handy. And baby wipes. Wetting a paper napkin with water from a Dasani bottle is
not the best substitute for cleaning sticky hands!
The rest of our drive was uneventful and we were home in plenty of time for Super Bowl pizza and Monster Cookies, a family tradition.
Coming up: Final thoughts
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