December 6, 2015 – Our RV Adventures

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On to Colorado River . . .

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For some reason, Jan and I were both up at about 6:30 this morning, earlier than we really needed to be, since we didn’t plan on leaving the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails until between 10 and 11.

But it did give us a relaxing time for our coffee and toasted pumpkin bread before we slowly started getting ready to roll. Jan was in her second day of a three day migraine cluster, so going slow was good for her.

About 8:30 I went outside and took care of the water, sewer, awnings, and satellite, leaving only shore power still connected. I also disconnected the engine block heater that had been on all night, a good thing since it went down to 36° last night. But with the block heater, the oil temp was 130° this morning, so it’s doing its job.

We pulled out of our site about 10:30, with Jan following in the truck so we could get hitched up before we left the park. Finally about 11, we were out on I-45 and heading south.

By changing our travel day between parks from Friday to Sunday a few weeks ago, we really cut down on the traffic, so we had a nice easy trip down to Beltway 8 and then around to I-10 west. We always make a pit shop on the wide shoulders just east of Brookshire, and then it was smooth riding until we got to the Colorado River Thousand Trails a little after 1pm. We were lucky enough to get our favorite A2 site, so we were quickly parked and set up.

A little later, I went down to the office to pay and get our gate codes for our two week stay. One thing I really like about the Colorado River TT over Lake Conroe is that here they give you all 3 gate codes you’ll need for your stay. If fact, Barbara, the Ranger who checked me in, said they already have all the codes for the rest of the year, and into next year.

But at Lake Conroe only the Manager knows the code and he doesn’t tell anyone until the guardhouse opens Tuesday morning at 9am. And since they won’t give you the code over the phone, you can end up in the same fix we did a couple of years ago when we left the park about 7am for a doctor’s appointment down in Clear Lake, and then didn’t get back until after 9pm, and after the guardhouse had already closed.

So we couldn’t get in the gate and had to wait around outside until someone came in, so we could zip in behind them. Luckily we only had to wait 15 minutes or so.

After goofing off for a while I spent some time going through things, getting stuff together for my upcoming plumbing jobs this coming Wednesday while Jan’s staying at Brandi’s for a few days.

Actually I have several more projects in mind if I don’t run into any delays on the first three, but we’ll just have to see how it goes.

This is Last Call to get your Gingerbread Man Sighting picture postcards into Landon’s class. All cards need to be received by this Friday, Dec. 11th.

To recap, Landon’s class needs picture postcards from around the country mailed to his class describing sightings of the missing Gingerbread Man. Note that the cards don’t have to be mailed from that location. You can just say something like, “We saw the missing Gingerbread Man here at Mt. Rushmore.”