A little teaser

One of the features of blogspot is that it allows you to see what countries any visitors are from. Ten page views from Ireland lately. As I know no one there, sorry you got lost/took a wrong turn/was mis-directed on the information highway and ended up on this ole fools page. Hope you enjoyed the visit.

 For the others I thought I would post a teaser of planned stops for the upcoming journey. More detail for each location as we get there. But for now, a little preview tease.Have begun packing and organizing in earnest.

More progress

 Well after changing the oil in both vehicles it was time for a trial run. In our previous outing we had not towed a vehicle, but we will on this extended journey. Several items to accomplish this morning: me becoming comfortable with process of attaching the Jeep and pulling it. Mary driving the motor home for the first time and Mary relearning to drive a manual shift transmission again. She had driven one before but it had been 30 plus years. So after hooking up at home we drove over to the local community college campus. Their empty parking lot provided lots of space and opportunity to practice turns, stopping and starting, all that good stuff. After many hour preparing it was good to put it to use. And Mary did great. Got our dates and hours for Trenholm, reservations made, all we need to do now is pack.

One month and counting

 Well after back surgery, rehab and all the assorted delays, time is near. August 15th we begin a 3 plus months journey of discovery. We work for 2 and a half weeks or so in Montgomery Alabama then it is off to Florida. We will be in various locations in Florida till October 22 when we enter Georgia. We finish off October in Savannah then move to Charleston SC for November. Sometime in November we will turn for home in Texas to meet family obligations around Thanksgiving. Have been busy preparing our Jeep to become our toad. The last week before we leave will be filled with final packing and checking, double checking to insure we have close to what we need. Will be leaving in 100 degree temps and returning when there is a nip, and perhaps frost, in the air. RV only holds so much so pack wisely.

Tyler State Park, part 2

This is a lovely, and one of the most popular, Texas state parks. Really should try and get out here more often. Rough guess of nearly 20 years since our last visit. Shameful to be so close yet not visit more often. Weather deteriorating starting tomorrow so that eases the pain of leaving. Mary has surgery next week so the next outing is unknown at this time.

 I leave you with some photos of Tyler State Park.

Tyler State Park

Had a brief window of opportunity between retirement and doctors. Decided to spend a couple of days here.

Not a bad view from the front porch...

Rained before we got here, storms forecasted for Thursday, we got lucky on weather

Brownwood

March found us with a couple of days to roam so we headed to an old friend to use as a base for a long weekend. Coming in on Thursday allowed us to get a nice spot on the hill overlooking the lake.

 Unfortunately we were to discover Friday morning that the shower faucet did not survive the winter. Spent time mopping up water in floor only to discover leak I was unable to repair. That coupled with onset of a cold for Mary brought this little sojourn to an early end.

We camped extensively at this state park when kids were young and we had a boat. Since then kids have grown, sold the boat and central Texas is suffering from an extended drought.

 Dock where we used to park the boat.

Went under this bridge to get from dock to main body of lake. Another view can be seen on right side of picture above.

Might be a little difficult to launch boat today. Nice floating dock, now high and dry, was not there when we were boating on lake.

Next stop, a return to Tyler...

Thursday the 12th, Day 6

 Mary's back was giving her problems so Thursday meant a good book and relaxing in the hot tub and pool. Sorry no pictures :)