Daily Archives: January 17, 2016
Goodbye and Pie . . .
As we’ve done in the past, Jan and I drove into Columbus about 7:30 to have breakfast at Schobels Restaurant before we headed for Lake Conroe about 10am. We had invited Nick and Terry to go with us, but Nick says he never eats breakfast before noon, so we were on our own.
When we do this, we get everything ready to roll before we go eat, so when we come back it’s pretty much just bring in the slide, disconnect shore power, crank up and go.
We had our usual great omelets at Schobels with grits and bacon for me, and hash browns and bacon for Jan. And their coffee’s really good too.
Their breakfast buffet doesn’t start until 8am, so we missed that, but I did check it out before we left, and it really looked good. Chicken Fried Steak and Gravy, Grilled Sausage Chunks, Grilled Ham Slices, Thick Sliced Bacon, Grits, Scrambled Eggs, and a lot more. Maybe we’ll come a little later next time.
Getting back to the park, we went over to Nick and Terry’s for a few minutes to say our goodbyes. They’re also heading out this morning, for Tuscaloosa, AL, and then Florida for the winter, so we won’t see them again until this summer. A little later, we left with a couple of slices of Miss Terry’s delectable Pecan Pie, and a couple of bundles of Gypsy Journals from Nick.
Needless to say, we liked Terry’s going-away gift better.
Following Nick and Terry, we were out of the park and on the road by 10:30, heading east on I-10. As in past trips, I pretty much just set the speed control on 55, and go. We did make a pit stop just east of Brookshire, but that was our only stop.
We pulled into the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails about 12:45 and got checked in. We’ve been here so many times that Kim, the head ranger, now knows us by name, which makes for a much quicker check-in. Nice.
So 2 hours and 15 minutes for the 120 mile trip, an hour shorter than our ‘shortcut through the countryside last time. And a lot less stressful, and a lot less tiring to me.
Kim said our new favorite space over in the G section was taken, but that a couple of sites over in our old favorite E section. Hey, so I guess we’re fickle. Heading over to the E ring we did find a nice spot there with easy back-in parking, and were quickly in and set up.
Coming up the ring, we did see our friend’s, Garland and Valencia’s Phaeton as we drove in, so it looks like we’ll maybe have some walking partners again.
We goofed off the rest of the afternoon, reading, napping, and computing, one of the great perks of being a full-time RV’er. Later Jan heated up our leftover Mexican from Los Cabos, and some of our homemade queso and chips. A great meal, again.
Earlier, when I was outside hooking up, I began talking to our neighbor and found out that he runs the MyRVTalk website, with over 3300 members. it’s more on the form of something like RV.net with many different forums areas on a number of different RV’ing subjects. It looks like there’s a lot of good information on there, so check it out.
Tomorrow I’ve got several things on my plate, with a call to Colaw RV Salvage to see if they have any screen door hinges for our coach. American Coach said they don’t have any in stock, and the door company is out of business, so Colaw is my last hope.
They were able to supply a lot of the parts for our blow-out repair in Prescott, AZ this summer, so I’m hoping they can come to my rescue again. If not, guess I’ll see if I can repair/reweld them somehow.
I’m also going to remove the screen door for now, because the sagging hinge keep jamming the screen door against the main door, and makes it hard to open and close the door. I’ll just store it in the truck for now.
I also want to check/replace the check valve on my water system. Yesterday afternoon, to get a head start on this morning’s travel, I went ahead and disconnected the water and sewer hoses and stowed them away.. I hate to wrestle with stiff water hoses in 33° weather, and it’s one less thing to do on a travel morning.
I disconnected the shore water and put us on our internal tank, which was full . . . then. But about midnight, when I went to my shower, I found the pump running and the tank now empty. So I got dressed, went outside and hooked us back up to shore water . . . in 35 degree weather. Otherwise, no shower for me, no shower for Jan tomorrow morning, and no water for general use on the trip today.
But it may have just been the really cold weather, since when I checked it out after we got to Lake Conroe, it was fine. So we’ll see.
I also plan on restarting the screen replacement project on my son’s Galaxy S5. The new screen/digitizer I ordered came in on Friday, so now I’m all set . You can check our my previous adventures on this project here.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/01/but-the-patient-died/
Hopefully things will go better this time.
Thought for the Day:
So Now We Know!
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