on August 8th, 2010 at 12:10 am by MJ

Chris and Jason brought us breakfast this morning and saw us off, so they got to see what hitching up and getting the rig ready to roll looks like. It always tickles me to show people how the slides work.  For some reason, folks are really captivated by that. Site built houses just don’t have [...]

Continue reading about Day 53 on the road – From Bandera to Grapevine

on August 6th, 2010 at 9:43 pm by MJ

For whatever reason, I woke up feeling worse on Thursday than I did the day before.  I’m not sure why, but I do know that my sunburned legs were now covered with small little blisters.  I made myself get up and dressed and went into town where I went shopping for souvenirs for the folks [...]

Continue reading about Days 51 & 52 on the road – In San Antonio

on August 4th, 2010 at 10:52 pm by MJ

Not a lot to report today. After scoring really excellent doughnuts from the Snowflake bakery for breakfast,  I visited the local cemetery to find the graves of the Hay ancestors.  There are quite a few very old tombstones there, some dating back to the Texas Revolution.  The first Hays to settle in Bandera, Alexander and [...]

Continue reading about Day 50 on the road – In Bandera

on August 2nd, 2010 at 9:50 pm by MJ

Mostly, this blog is about the ins and outs of living fulltime in an RV.  That means lots of posts about the mechanics of the rig, adapting to small spaces, and being on the road.  One thing I haven’t written much about but that has been on my mind a lot this summer is how [...]

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on July 31st, 2010 at 11:18 pm by MJ

We were up around 8:00 a.m., and at 8:30 sharp, my friend Melinda knocked on the door.  She was carrying homemade breakfast tacos AND  a pan of cinnamon rolls!  She brought us some El Milagro tortilla chips and a bag of groceries!  That was so incredibly kind and generous.  She must have figured we look [...]

Continue reading about Day 46 on the road – From San Antonio to Bandera

on July 30th, 2010 at 10:11 pm by MJ

Today was our last full day in San Antonio.  Lex spent part of that day in town at a work-related meeting.  I stayed home, cleaned house, and waited for a college friend, Melinda, to show up for a visit in the afternoon.  We hadn’t seen each other in nearly fifteen years, but when she got [...]

Continue reading about Day 45 on the road – In San Antonio

on July 30th, 2010 at 12:52 am by MJ

Today was my day to geocache here in San Antonio.  Before I did that, however, I needed to get the oil in the truck changed.  We’ve come over 2,000 miles on our trip, so before we start heading back, we needed to take care of our tow vehicle.  I had the shop put Rotella T [...]

Continue reading about Day 44 on the road – In San Antonio

on July 28th, 2010 at 11:43 pm by MJ

Today I went to the post office in Elmendorf, not far from the RV park where we are staying, so I could mail Alexis’ iPhone 3G.  The two-year-old phone sold in under two minutes on eBay for $150.  What?  Are people out of their minds?  They can get the newer model, the 3GS for only [...]

Continue reading about Day 43 on the road – In San Antonio

on July 27th, 2010 at 11:40 pm by MJ

Because Lex was off, we both spent a lazy Monday just poking around the house.  Later in the afternoon, I did go into town to run a few errands and pick up some groceries.  Came home, put together some dinner, and ended up going to bed early.  So, not much else to report about Day [...]

Continue reading about Days 41 and 42 on the road – In San Antonio

on July 26th, 2010 at 12:35 am by MJ

Today marks the two-thirds point on our trip.  We’ll be home in three weeks. We still have a week left in San Antonio, a week in Bandera and a few days in the DFW area before we head back, though, so it’s not over yet! I woke up early today and started cooking.  The build-a-taco [...]

Continue reading about Day 40 on the road – In San Antonio