Daily Archives: August 28, 2014
Our Temporary Home . . .
for now.
At least until we get a gate.
I called Jamie at Gate Guard Services about 9am for a last minute check to see if he had had anything come available in the last couple of days, but he said ‘Maybe next week’, with emphasis on the ‘Maybe’.
Oh well, heading west, it is.
Jan and I pulled out of our site at the Colorado River Thousand Trails about 9:30, got hitched up at the top of hill, and headed two miles down the road to the Citgo station.
Not wanting to give Hugo Chavez any more money than I had to (Yes, I know he’s dead. It’s the principal.) I took my card inside and asked for $200 worth. This would give me a total of about 70 gallons to make the 180 mile trip to Whitsett while running the generator for the AC’s.
The diesel pump was an old one and didn’t even have a credit card reader on it. And it didn’t have much of a readout display either. Most of the digits didn’t work, and the few that did pretty much seemed to be displaying random numbers.
But I figured ‘Hey, it’ll stop at $200’, right?
Wrong!
She didn’t set the pump for $200 like I asked. She just turned it on.
So $285 later, I had a full tank . . . that I didn’t want. Damn!
Getting back on the road a little after 10, our next stop at the Luling exit Bucee’s to stock up on Cranberry Nut Muffins and Kolaches to tide us over for our gate guarding start. We love Bucee’s.
We pulled into the Whitsett Gate Guard Services yard a little after 2pm and checked in with Mark, the supervisor at the office. I noticed there was an empty RV available so we would have full-hookups while we wait for a gate. Nice.
Mark said the guy in the 5’er to our right is going out tomorrow, and we should have a gate in a couple of days, maybe even tomorrow. We’ll see.
The yard looks pretty much the same as last year, except less equipment trailers parked around. Which is probably due to the fact that things are so much busier down here this year.
About 6 Jan and I headed up to Pleasanton to have dinner at Chili’s. The place has been remodeled since last year and really looked nice. And the service was much better too. Maybe a new manager?
So tomorrow we’ll sit and wait. Hopefully not too long.
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Thought for the Day:
“When you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Sir Winston Churchill
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