Monthly Archives: January 2015
Finally. It’s About Time . . .
Jan and I really like being back at Colorado River. Although we like Lake Conroe for all the shopping and places to eat, we like the park itself better here. It’s not as busy, the sites are bigger and there’s not as much traffic.
And of course we like it better because Nick and Terry are here, too.
Well, it finally happened today. The new sites are open at Galveston Bay RV Resort, and we will be heading down there on Wednesday, the 4th of February. Since we plan on heading for Tucson and the Escapade on March 1st, we’ll have not quite a month there. But it will make things more convenient for our doctor’s appointments next month, instead of having to drive down from Conroe or Columbus.
Several people asked me about my air compressor after I mentioned replacing the hose the other day. Mine came from Sears, but they no longer sell it. But apparently it was made by Porter-Cable and it’s still sold on Amazon for about $105.
I bought mine in 2010 and, except for the hose, it’s still going strong. And it has no problem taking rig tires up to 120psi in just a few minutes.
PORTER-CABLE 150 PSI Air Compressor
For dinner tonight, Jan used the convection over to heat our leftover Grimaldi’s Pizza from the other night. We always get the Large (18”) one, and take home half of it for later. And it’s still delicious heated up.
Finishing up for today, be sure and check out Nick Russell’s latest Big Lake book.
Big Lake Burning, the 6th book in the Big Lake series, just went on sale a couple of days ago, and copies are going fast. So get yours before Amazon runs out of electrons and has to restock. Order it now.
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Thought for the Day:
The executive who works twelve hours every day will be successful, and be fondly remembered by his wife’s second husband.
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It Works!
We were both up about 7am this morning to get ready for our trip back over to the Colorado River Thousand Trails. We didn’t plan on leaving until around noon, but since we wanted to have breakfast at Cracker Barrel before we left, and also had some bank business to take care, we wanted to allow plenty of time.
After taking down our Winegard Carryout Satellite Dish and stowing it away, I dumped a bottle of Diesel Kleen into the rig’s fuel tank. I started using Diesel Kleen a few years ago on our first gate guard job. One of the drivers told me about it, and said his company had done a test trial with about 50 of their trucks, and were now using it in all 600+ vehicles. Said they were showing a solid 5-6% increase in mpg, along with cleaner injectors. So I try to dump in a bottle every 4 or 5 fillups. Only cost $6-7 at Wal-Mart.
We headed off to Cracker Barrel about 8:15, and based on our Wed. morning breakfast there three weeks ago, we didn’t expect them to be very busy, but they were pretty slammed. So much so that it took a lot longer to get our food this time. But we weren’t in any real hurry, so it was fine.
But for whatever reason, our bank business took a lot longer than expected too, So by the time we got back to the rig and we pulled out, it was a little before 12 noon. The last time we were parked at this site, I was able to hitch up and pull out and go. But this time the people next to us, in a truck camper, had pulled the picnic table over into their site, and right out next to the road. So I was afraid if I pulled out hitched up, I’d hit the picnic table with our toad. So we hitched up right down the road and were on our way.
The trip was pretty standard, with no slowdowns, just the usual amount of Houston traffic. But there were two highlights for us.
First off, along the way we hit 130,000 miles on the coach, about 67,500 miles of it ours. At 130,000 miles, ‘Beauty’ is just getting broken it.
And secondly, we found out the new transfer switch I installed about a month ago actually works. Every time we’ve traveled since I installed it, it’s been cold and rainy so we haven’t needed the AC’s, but today we did. So right after we got on the road, I fired up the generator and a couple of minutes the AC’s came on and ran fine the entire trip. It Works!
But the real highlight of the day, was Nick and Terry Russell arriving here about a half an hour after we did. We haven’t seen them since we went our separate ways last August, so we had a lot of hugs and catching up to do. And lucky for us, we got the last two side-by-side 50 amp sites, especially good since the park is a lot fuller than when we left here a week ago.
Everyone was pretty hungry, so after we were both set up, we headed out to have dinner at Los Cabos, our favorite Mexican place in the area. Actually it’s our only Mexican place in the area, since we’ve never eaten Mexican any where else.
Happily Nick and Terry thought it was just as good as we do, and we all had a great meal.
Not sure what’s in store for tomorrow, but with Nick around, it will be interesting.
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Thought for the Day:
Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal. – Cory Doctorow
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