Monthly Archives: September 2014
Should We Stay, or Should We Go . . .
So we went.
Talk about your ups and downs!
After starting coffee this morning I walked over to the office about 9:15 to see if Mark had anything coming up for us. He said nothing definite, but you never know.
Then about 9:40 Diane called me from the office and said they had a gate for us, and it was close by, only 7- 8 miles from the office. Sounded great so I told them we’d be ready to pull out in 45 minutes to an hour.
About 10:25, about 5 minutes before we were ready to crank up and pull shore power, Diane calls back and says the gate has been cancelled.
Bummer!
But knowing something could come up any time, we left everything pretty much ready to travel. Only thing I did was put the satellite dome back out and put out the window awnings.
And what do you know, about 1:45 Jamie called us from Madisonville with another offer. He had a gate for us near Madisonville, starting tomorrow (Wednesday) if we wanted it. It’s a long term gate, apparently not too busy, just sign people in and out, and tell them to watch the speed limit. Told him I’d call him back in a few minutes.
Jan and I talked it over after I checked out the route. Looked to be about 300 miles, (better than the 450 miles to Shreveport he offered us last week.) Figure, yeah, it was 300 miles but we would be working starting tomorrow, and we don’t know how much longer it would be before we got a gate in Whitsett. Plus Jamie said this gate would last our entire anticipated time (end of November) so we wouldn’t have to move around. So we decide to go for it. And after checking the route out some more, we decided to got ahead and get on the road today, and not wait to start out tomorrow.
So I called Jamie back and said we were on our way and would see him tomorrow. Then I headed over to the office to tell them we were leaving. And as I walked in the door to talk to Mark, Diane waved and said, “Bye.” Turns out Jamie had already called them to let them know he was ‘poaching’ us. Glad we weren’t leaving Mark in a lurch though, since there was another couple in the yard also waiting for a gate.
So right now, Jan and I are parked for the night at the East View RV Ranch near Georgetown, TX. We did 175 miles today, with about 125 tomorrow.
It was an easy trip with some rain on and off, but nothing too bad, and some one-lane construction on I-410 around San Antonio.
We’ll head out tomorrow about 9am. It sounds like our gate is somewhere on FM39 south of North Zulch, which is west of Madisonville on US190.
Apparently Jamie is going to give us directions directly to our gate tomorrow morning.
So we’ll see how it goes.
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Thought for the Day:
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. — Ronald Reagan
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Soon? We Hope . . .
After coffee and muffins this morning, we just took it easy, enjoying the quiet before the gate, so to speak.
About 2pm I head over to the Wal-Mart in Pleasanton to go ahead and stock us up with groceries so we won’t have to worry about that for a while if we get a gate in the next couple of days. Was kind of surprised to see that the place wasn’t very busy at all.
But I think that was because everyone was out on I-37 heading back to San Antonio from Corpus and the Valley. When I got on the Interstate heading for Pleasanton, I was in the middle of a solid two lanes of traffic heading north. But then coming home, the road was pretty empty.
For dinner about 6pm we had some of the Wacky Mac tuna pasta salad that had been marinating in the fridge since she made it yesterday. And as I had thought, the tomato, spinach, and beet powders listed on the package are just there to color the pasta naturally. They certainly didn’t change the taste. But it was really delicious and we each had two bowls.
I’ve been going through our bins a little more, pulling out the big items we’ll need on the gate. Or may need.
This first one we didn’t need at all last year since we stayed at one gate the entire 3 months, and we were only about two miles off the Interstate.
But in 2012 we were at four different gates, and used this Wilson Booster on two of them. And on one of them I was hitting a cellphone tower 21 miles away.
Wilson Electronics DB Pro Cellular Signal Booster
I had the directional antenna mounted on a 20 pole made up of 4 – 5 foot antenna sections from Radio Shack. When I bought ours in April of 2012 it was about $350, but now it runs about $400. But since we get our Internet access as well as cell service this way, when we need it, we need it.
I’ve got a few more items, but I’ll save those for tomorrow.
We’ll be up early tomorrow to check in at the office to see if there’s anything on the schedule for us.
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Thought for the Day:
2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2 – Fermat’s Next-to-Last Theorem
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