Our RV Adventures

As usual on a travel day, I was up about 6:30 to finish up our moving day preparations.

I aroused Sleeping Beauty about 7, and then went outside to finish up there, stowing away the satellite dome, letting in the awnings, putting away the step, etc. As usual I had already put away the water and sewer hoses yesterday, so by the time I was finished, the only thing left to do was to unhook shore power.

One other thing I did, that I’ve done for the last year, was to plug in the rig’s engine block heater. Normally you only think about using it in cold weather, but my idea is that even in warm weather, 140 degree oil is better than 60 degree oil when you’re starting your engine up after two weeks.

Not sure if I can quantify any increase in engine longevity, but hey, it can’t hurt.

About 8am Jan and I headed in to Columbus for our regular leaving-Columbus-Breakfast-Buffet at Schobel’s Restaurant.

They do an excellent breakfast buffet, with eggs scrambled, or to your order, grilled potatoes and onions, grits, biscuits, sausage gravy, grilled ham, crispy bacon, patty sausage, grilled link sausage, and for a little sweetness, bread pudding.

All very, very good, especially for only $7.99.

Leaving Schobel’s, we zipped across the street to pick a couple of Root Beer Shakes to go from the Whataburger. We enjoyed the one we shared the other day, we thought  we get a couple of more to have for dessert spread out over the next few days. Yumm!

We were back at the rig a little before 10, and hitched up and rolling by 10:30, on our way to the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails about 120 miles.

We made this trip enough now that I think the coach could do it all by itself. You know, just put it on cruise control, and go back and get a cold green tea out of the fridge.

And as usual, it was very . . . Windy. A couple of times, it was almost change-lanes-without-moving-the-steering-wheel windy, but we made it without bumping or being bumped, so it all worked out.

We got into the park a little before 1pm and found a nice site over in the newly-remodeled ‘G’ section. After getting plugged in and set up, Jan napped on the sofa, while I adjourned to the bedroom for an hour or so.

When I got up, I found Jan again engrossed in the Big Love series she’s been streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Dinner was soup and sandwiches, the soup being a couple of the Campbell’s Slow Kettle Tomato and Sweet Basil Bisque that we bought in bulk from Sam’s Club when we were in Prescott, AZ.

We noticed Sam’s Club had 4-packs on sale for $1.99 so we bought one to try it out. And it was probably the best ‘canned’ soup we’ve ever eaten. When we checked at Wal-Mart, we found the individual cans sold for about $3.00. So we went back the next day and bought all eight 4-packs Sam’s had left in stock. And even better, the price had dropped to $1.89. We bought all of them because we’ve learned from experience that if you wait too long on a Sam’s Club sale, it probably won’t be there when you come back. And they had a lot less of them that day than the day before.

So we paid 50 cents per serving, rather than $3. Nice.

Thought for the Day:

‘If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.’ –  Mark Twain

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