We can control many things in our lives, especially our attitude.

The weather, however, is out of our control. Having gotten an extra hour by moving into central time we combined two days of driving into one with an early start, and landed at an RV park for the night after a long day. When we sat down to plan for tomorrow, we discovered a major outdoor sightseeing issue.

Rain. Lots of it.

If you’re a farmer, rain is fantastic. It waters your crops for free, washes off cows and horses, and makes for good mud bogging for your monster truck driving teenagers. However, if you’re a sight seeing traveler, rain mucks up your plans as good as a hurricane can toss a trailer park. If we stay put to wait it out, we lose an entire day — rain is forecast here from 8am to 7pm.

This fact brings to mind a story I was once told which goes something like this: Cows are fearful and run from storms. By running from them, once the storm eventually overtakes them, as it always does, they spend longer standing in it or even longer still trying to outrun it as it passes over.

Buffalo, however, are fearless. They see storms forming on the horizon and decide to charge them, embracing them and passing through quickly. Or as Ice-T would say, “I ain’t runnin’ from ya, I’m runnin’ at ya!”

So, it’s time to be a buffalo.

If we break camp around 8am and hit the road by 8:30-9 we’ll head west into the storm just as the eastern edge hits. Once we reach Jennings, around noon, it should be sunny and clear the rest of the way to Houston.

That’s how you clear a storm you can’t control.

Take action.

— The Impostor