Daily Archives: December 21, 2015
Old Friends, New Friends, and Chinese . . .
Jan and I headed our for our inaugural walk here at Lake Conroe Thousand Trails. Since they don’t seem to have a real designated walking path like Colorado River, I used Google Satellite View to map out a 1 mile route, which is pretty just the circumference of the park.
About a quarter of the way around, we ran into our old friend’s Garland and Valencia Scott. We first met them last winter when we were parked near each other here at Lake Conroe.
Since we were both out walking, we ended up making the circle together as we caught up on our travels this last year, and talked over our travels to be for the next year.
Garland and Valencia are the couple closest to the camera, and behind them are Gordon and Merlyn Pendergast, also new RV’ers.
Garland and Valencia are leaving for a week starting tomorrow, but they’ll be back while we are still here, so we’ll get together then. Really looking forward to it.
A little before 4pm, Jan and I headed out to meet Ed and Debi Hurlburt at the nearby China Delight Chinese Restaurant. Ed is the moderator of two popular Facebook RV groups, RV Tips and RV Chat. And not to be outdone, his wife Debi has her own Facebook group, Debi’s RV Cooking. Jan says she’s gotten some really good recipes from there, so check them all out.
Ed and Debi have been eating here for years, and after trying the food, it’s easy to see why. We’ll definitely go back.
That’s Ed in the blue shirt and Debi to his right.
Along with themselves, Ed and Debi also brought two other RV’ing couples for us to meet. That’s Jim and Claudia Horak on the right, and Jack and Lynette Starwalt behind Jan.
We all had a great time comparing places we’ve been and places we’d like to go around the country, and talking about all the things RV’ers talk about when they get together.
Leaving the restaurant, we stopped off at Kroger’s to pick up the last of the needed Christmas food supplies, as well as some Christmas gift cards. This should wrap it up, except for the Coconut Cream Pie we’ll pick up from the Fish Pond Restaurant tomorrow evening, and the Cornbread Dressing and Turkey Gravy we’ll pick up from Cracker Barrel Thursday morning on our way to our daughter Brandi’s down in Katy.
Tomorrow we’re driving over to Livingston to visit Dennis and Carol Hill at the Escapees park there, and having sampled his past culinary delights, we’re really looking forward to whatever Dennis pulls out of the smoker.
My good friend Nick Russell’s new book just came out yesterday, and it’s already #32 on Amazon’s Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense list.
This one is not part of his very popular Big Lake series, but it’s another stand-alone book, like his Dog’s Run. Set in the Titsuville, Florida area, it’s sure to be another best seller for him. So get your copy before they run out.
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Thought for the Day:
This is kind of unusual for a TOTD, but this is really a big deal.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company achieved a real milestone today when one of their Falcon 9 rockets launched 11 satellites into Low Earth Orbit and then returned to Cape Canaveral to land vertically on its tail, just like in the movies.
Being able to reuse the complete rocket could reduce the cost of going into space by a factor of 100 and pave the way for lunar and Mars colonies.
You can see the launch and landing here.
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