Better to miss a message than to lose a life.Don’t text and drive. Sage advice. Isn’t it ironic though, that delivering the message that it’s dangerous to read and drive, requires a billboard for us to read while we’re driving? Another billboard warns again the dangers of prescription drugs. It says: “Prescription pain medication can be just as addictive as Heroin.” Know what that means? It means I have permission to try Heroin. I’ve taken prescription pain medication and haven’t become addicted, so it must be okay to try Heroin and I won’t get addicted to that either! Our daytime highs are still in triple digits, but a stop at Balmorhea State park softens the pain. 2016 Summer Trip Map Benefits of stopping at Balmorhea include a dip in a huge outdoor pool fed by a natural artesian spring that pumps out 15 million gallons of water a day, with a constant temperature in the low 70s. It’s a little chilly getting in, but it’s refreshing and charming; sharing the water with minnows and a few turtles that also live there. We have a night sky with moonlit scattered clouds, stars, planets, and a lightning light show off to the northeast. What a life we lead.