Daily Archives: December 20, 2015
Back in Conroe . . .
Jan and I were up about 7:30 this morning. early for me since this in a travel day. But since we weren’t leaving until around 10am, we relaxed for a while, with Jan fixing us egg and cheese biscuits to have with our coffee, Really good.
I started up the rig about 9:40 and raised the levelers so I could get the pads out from under the rig. About this time Bonnie and Vance Clegg, our next door neighbors and new friends, came over to say goodbye. They’ll still be here when we come back in two weeks so we made plans to get together then.
We were hooked up and pulling out of the park by about 10:15. Getting out on I-10E we found it had become a very windy day, and stayed that way all the way to Conroe. Not windy enough to be a real problem, but enough that I had to stay on top of it.
We pulled into the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails a little after 1pm, and Kim, the head ranger got us checked in. She said that there were no 50amp open sites in the ‘E’ ring where we normally like to stay, but there were some in the newly-remodeled ‘G’ area. So after we got unhitched, we drove over through that area and quickly found a prime site.
So nice in fact, I kind of wondered why it was empty. But we quickly got backed in and parked. But when I went to get power, water, and sewer hooked up, it quickly became obvious why the site was empty. Probably 95% of 40ft Class A’s couldn’t hook up here.
When the rig is far enough toward the rear of the site so that you can park your toad out in front, the power pedestal is actually about a foot out in front of the rig. In fact I doubt anyone with a standard length power cord could hook up at all. The first owner of our American Eagle ordered it with the optional extra-long power cord, and a couple of times I’ve been able to connect to the power pedestal at the site next to ours during power problems.
But even with my long cord, I was just barely able to connect to power. In addition I had to use two sections of sewer hose because the sewer connection is also way forward. But since we can hook up here, and most rigs probably can’t, maybe this will be our spot from now on.
After goofing off for a while we headed about 3pm. First up was ‘linner’ at one of our new favorite places, Raisin’ Cane’s Chicken Fingers. We first ate at one on last year’s gate near Bryan/College Station, and a few more times since then.
And it’s always really good.
Then it was next door to the Home Depot to pick up a 5/8” countersink for my next project that I’ll talk about tomorrow. After that we made a stop at an HEB to pick up a few things, including a couple of their oven-roasted turkey breasts to have for our family Christmas dinner on Friday.
We’re really looking forward to getting together with everyone.
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Thought for the Day:
“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” – Thomas Jefferson
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