Lex called me today to say that when she was walking the dogs this morning, she heard a whole lot of screaming and yelling, and as she walked back toward our rig, she realized it was the neighbor, Jeanne, screaming at her mother. Apparently, Jeanne was standing outside the door of her mother’s travel trailer, [...]
Continue reading about Cussfest 2010 and Let’s Play Find That Smell!
As you may recall, we had a new couple of neighbors show up a couple of weeks ago. Today, our second set of neighbors showed up. These folks are actually Bill and Jeanne’s parents, and they have their own travel trailer. There have been a couple of extra pickups parked outside for a week or [...]
Continue reading about More new neighbors, a child on the loose, and ongoing awning frustrations
If you don’t really want to wade through 60 days’ worth of posts, I’ll break it down for you: Williamsburg: Stayed in an okay park, ate some good food, did some shopping and geocaching, got a little Colonial American history. Lex had her only real days off during the whole trip. Stone Mountain: Stayed in [...]
We traveled 1400 miles in three days to get from Texas back to Maryland. Initially, we’d planned on taking it a bit more slowly and dividing the trip up over four days, but when I asked Lex if she preferred getting home sooner and having a day off before heading back to work, she voted [...]
Continue reading about Days 58-60 on the road – Grapevine, TX to Dundalk, MD
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
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
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 [...]
About 10:00 a.m., Lex found out that her boss had called a meeting of her company’s employees at a local Starbucks (everyone in San Antonio or linked to the San Antonio office now telecommutes) from noon to 3:00 p.m. But, but, but….I had to be in Gonzales for the funeral at 3:00 p.m. What to [...]
Continue reading about Day 38 on the road – In San Antonio and Gonzales
As I promised, today I stayed in. The morning started early with a 6 a.m. call from one of my cousins telling me my aunt (the one who had the stroke a couple of weeks ago) had a heart attack and probably wasn’t going to make it. She didn’t. Her rosary is Thursday evening and [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve started to establish some standards for what makes a really nice RV park. Here’s my list: Nice staff/owners – it makes a big difference to have decent people in the park office. The Moers in Gonzales set the bar really high in this department. Spacious sites – I guess [...]
