Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Christmas Visitors

Rockport, Texas
Weather Conditions; Cloudy, 57 degrees

We sure hope that everyone had a great Christmas. We did.


My son drove down from Oklahoma with his girl-friend and her teenage daughter.

They arrived Christmas morning.

Dawn spent two days cooking a big Christmas meal. She cooked ham, turkey, fruit salad, candied yams, rolls, cheesy potatoes, shrimp, corn casserole, coconut pie, cranberry cake, lemon pound cake and pecan bars.

After opening gifts and having lunch the kids went back to their hotel for a nap.

We had plenty of leftovers.

This is the first Christmas we’ve spent with my son in a long time.

On Saturday we drove over to Port Aransas and had lunch. We filled our stomachs with pizza from the buffet at Port A Pizzeria.

We were able to catch a shot of a few dolphins playing in the water near the ferry.


We visited the beach. It was windy but we spent some time enjoying the warm weather.


We strolled through one of the souvenir stores on the island.

We also visited the Big Tree and drove around the area to site see.

This is my son and his girl-friend and her teenage daughter

Afterwards we stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream.

The kids returned the following day for lunch. We served a mexican food lunch.

Dawn and I made enchiladas and rice. We also had chips and cheese dip.

The kids went to the Rockport Aquarium and the Maritime Museum.

The kids had to leave on Monday morning. We hated to see them go so soon.


We really enjoyed our visit with them.

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Weekend Visitor

Rockport, Texas
Weather Conditions; Cloudy, 75 degrees

We had a visitor. Our very good friend Paula came for a weekend visit.


Paula had never been to Rockport so we wanted to show her as much as possible in two days.

She arrived Friday evening and we were up until midnight talking.

Saturday morning we had breakfast and then jumped in the car for site seeing.

The weather was beautiful so we went downtown Rockport to see what was going on. We stopped off at the Market Days area and strolled through to see what the vendors had to offer


We drove to Goose Island State Park. We drove through the park and looked at the camp sites in the woods and the sites on the beach.

We drove over to the Big Tree too. The picture doesn’t do this tree justice. This tree is massive.



As we were leaving the Big Tree area we noticed the whooping cranes in the pasture across the road. It was hard to get a decent picture because they were so far away from the road.


There were many whooping cranes and Sandhill cranes hanging out in this pasture.

We drove around Fulton and Rockport showing Paula the sites.

We stopped off in Fulton at Moon Dogs for a late lunch.

They have these crazy bar stools and we had to get our pictures made with them!



We went back to downtown Rockport and strolled through the Main Street shops.

We returned home to grab our lawn chairs and then back downtown for the Tropical Lighted Christmas Parade.


 The parade was great and lasted about forty-five minutes.

We returned home after the parade for a glass of wine, cheese and crackers.

On Sunday we drove over to Port Aransas so we could play on the beach.


 Again the weather was absolutely beautiful. We hung out on the beach for a couple of hours before moving on down the road.

We stopped off at Mustang Island State Park and showed Paula around. We also walked on the beach while there.


From there we drove towards Corpus Christi. We stopped by Snoopy’s for a late lunch.


Dawn and I ate at Snoopy’s about fifteen years ago. It’s still a great place to eat.



It was late when we got home. 

We had more wine with cheese and crackers.


Paula had to leave Monday morning. We can’t wait for her to visit again.

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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Southern Bird Watching




















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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Repairs and More Repairs

Rockport, Texas
Weather Conditions; Clear, 72 degrees

We’ve been really busy since our arrival here in Rockport, Texas.

We’re staying in a park we’ve not stayed in before. We have a rock site. We parked and got all situated be after a few days we were leaning a little to one side.

We hooked back up to the truck and backed up a few feet and now we’re nice and level.

We have slowly been losing water pressure at the kitchen faucet for a few weeks. I had to work on that.

I believe the problem was from sitting for two years in a park with hard water. Once we started traveling all that scale was knocked loose and it plugged up the brass water line at the faucet.

I took the line loose from the faucet and had a good bit of scale come out. I ran a pipe cleaner through the line and put everything back together.

The water was finally coming out of the faucet but it was little more than a drip.


I took everything apart again and ran the pipe cleaner back through the brass line. This time I tapped it up and down with the pliers.

Hooked everything back up and we had a little more water but still not a normal flow.

While the faucet was on, I started tapping up and down the brass part of the pipe and it knocked everything loose.  It sounds easy but this took most of the day to get it fixed!!

Next problem was with the DISH Tailgater. I had to call DISH and ask them to change my address so that we could get local channels.

We have TV! Well, for a short time we did! The next it was the same, no local channels. I had to call DISH again. They UPDATED our info and again we have local channels.

The next day we had problems again. We bought a new cable and I mounted a board on the top of our roof ladder. I then placed the DISH on top of that and strapped it down. It looks a little REDNECK but it works.


We spent an afternoon cleaning house and doing laundry.

My driver’s license expired on Friday the 13th so I had to go to the local DMV to get that renewed. That took a couple of hours.

Our new neighbor  (Sam)had a birthday and we were invited to go out with them for dinner. That was FUN.


My birthday was Friday so several of us went out for breakfast. Sam had invited a couple he met the day before to join us. Just so happens that it was Ray's birthday too. We were served key lime pie after breakfast. That was real FUN!




Today Dawn and I decided to go over to Port Aransas and do some exploring.

We got off the ferry and to the second signal light when the truck started making a funny noise and the check engine light came on. I pulled into a parking lot and killed the truck.

We raised the hood and looked under the truck. Everything looked fine. I then called my son in Oklahoma and told him what was going on.

He asked me our location and then told me to hang tight that he would call me right back.

He called back a minute later and asked me to crank the truck. I did. The noise was gone but the engine light was still on. I killed the truck and he told me he would call me right back.

A minute later he called back and gave me direction to a mechanic shop a block away. He stayed on the phone with me giving me turn by turn directions.

When we pulled up to the shop, a man met us at the door and asked if we had just called. He asked me to crank the truck. I did and it ran fine and the engine light was off.

He then hooked up a diagnostic tool and checked for codes. My son called back and talked with the mechanic on the phone. It appears we have a fuel injection problem.

WOW! I'm so GRATEFUL that my son is mechanically inclined and doesn't mind helping his mom.

THANK YOU son. 



The mechanic explained that his shop is not equipped to handle that kind of repair. So we arranged with him to have the truck towed to the Chev dealership in Aransas Pass.

We called our friends Peter and Judy to rescue us. They were nice enough to leave the local RV Store open house in Rockport and come pick us up.

They were kind enough to stop by Wal-Mart so we could stock up on dog food and a few other things since we don’t know how long we’ll be without a truck.

Needless to say we arrived here on the 1st and have been pretty busy ever since

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

A couple of Days in La Grange

Southern Texas
Weather Conditions; Clear, 78 degrees

We pulled out of Corsicana a little before 10:00 A.M following Peter and Judy moving south to our next stop.

We stopped in LaGrange, Texas for a couple of days.

We only have about 150 miles to go but the weather channel said it to be stormy for a couple of days and we decided to park it until the storms pass.

We stayed at Colorado Landing RV Park. 

The park is very nice. They have 76 RV site and all are very level.

The sites are gravel with full hook ups. They also have cable and Wi-Fi.

We stayed in site 69. This site is a pull thru.

We checked in and were all set up by 3:00 P.M.

Judy and Peter wanted to take us to Reba’s Deli and Pizzeria for lunch.

 The pizza was excellent. After our late lunch, we stopped by H-E-B.

Dawn has missed shopping at H-E-B.  I was very excited to see they had Blue Bell ice cream.

I bought 3 pints! YUMMY!!!!! That should do me until we get to Rockport.

Today it’s raining here and flooding in Austin and we’re under a tornado watch until late this evening.

We’re just going to sit here until this passes over before moving on down to Rockport.

These deer are in a field with the cows next door to the park.


This is the courthouse in La Grange


This is the old jail that is now the visitors center


We pulled out of La Grange on Sunday morning and followed Peter and Judy the 145 miles to Rockport.

WOW! We're so happy to be here
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Moving South

Southern Texas
Weather Conditions; Rainy, 78 degrees

We landed in Daingerfield at Daingerfield State Park and spent 9 days. 


The first 7 days we spent with friends that were also camping at Daingerfield.



We had a great time visiting with some very close friends.

Dawn and I took a drive to Mena to check out the fall colors. It is always a beautiful drive. 




We did a few chores too.

Dawn and I also made a visit to 5 D Steakhouse in Avinger, Texas.



They have the BEST Bar B Q. They pile your plates full. I highly recommend this place to anyone who travels into this area.

We were keeping an eye on the weather so we could travel south without driving in the storms that were predicted near our departure time.

After talking with some of our winter Texas friends we decided to pull out of Daingerfield a day early.

We left Daingerfield on Wednesday afternoon and drove to Corsicana, Texas.

In Corsicana we met up with friends Peter and Judy.

We stayed 1 night at American RV on Hwy 31.

It wasn’t a bad park but 1 night is about all I could handle. The traffic noise from Hwy 31 and the constant traffic in the park was a little much.

While in Corsicana Dawn and I had dinner at the Old Mexico Inn. Wednesday night is enchilada night. We ordered the Wednesday special.



WOW! Two enchiladas, beans and rice for $3.99. It was very good.

Oh and the margaritas where $1.75!!!!


We pulled out of Corsicana a little before 10:00 A.M following Peter and Judy moving south to our next stop.

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Friday, October 23, 2015

Wright Patman Lake, Clear Springs Park and Friends

East Texas
Weather Conditions; Rainy, 72 degrees

We left Purtis Creek SP on Monday and drove to Wright Patman Lake. 



There we parked on Site B-19 in the Clear Springs Park.


Clear Springs is a beautiful park. All the sites are level with large gravel patio area. Some have sewer but we picked a site near the water and those sites don’t have sewer.

They do have a really neat honey wagon dump station.


There are lots of tall trees and this park stays busy. It appears that most of the campers at this park are local. We met a lot of very friendly people while there.



The restrooms and showers are very clean.


We watched deer stroll through the park.


Lots of the locals bring their golf carts.



On Friday we had company. Some friends from Lavon Lake came to camp for the weekend.



We had a great time visiting with friends and enjoying the really great weather.






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