Daily Archives: May 22, 2016
Happy 48th, Chris!
I was up about 6:30, with Jan following about 7 to get ready to roll this morning. We didn’t have breakfast or coffee because we planned on grabbing something at the Flying J.
We hoped to pull out by 8:30, but beat that by 15 minutes, and were out on I-45 by a little after 8:30. And about 30 minutes later we were pulling into the RV lanes at the Flying J on I-45. And although it was faster than last time, it still wasn’t exactly speedy.
Last time, the first pump I used was flowing about a gallon every 30 seconds, so it would take about an hour for 120 gallons. This time it was twice as fast, at 4 gallons a minute, but still that’s slow. I’ve often seen pumps flowing a gallon every 4 or 5 seconds. Here’s what happened that time.
https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/01/rv-checklists/
Normally this is a clogged filter on the pump, so I told them about it while I was inside getting our coffee, as well as a couple of very tasty Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Biscuits.
We were back on the road a little before 10 for our trip down to Brandi’s in Katy. After taking the Beltway around, rather go out I-10 and take the winding FM 1463 to Brandi’s, we went straight across I-10 and down to the Westpark Tollway and took that out to the Shell station at the corner of 1093 and 1463 where we were going to park for the afternoon.
We got there a little before 11, and as I was leaving the rig, Brandi and Landon pulled up next to us. I told her that was perfect timing, since I had planned to call and have them pick us up.
She said she was on her way back from the grocery story and just happened to see us pull in. But even more coincidental, as I was walking over to the convenience store to ask permission to park for a few hours, we saw Chris, Linda and Piper there picking up something for our dinner.
Getting to Brandi’s we had a great meal and an even better family get-together.
Chris got a Cheeseburger Ice Cream Birthday Cake with Star Wars characters on it.
And of course, here’s the obligatory family portrait.
Is that a great looking family, or what?
We were back on the road by a little before 3pm, head for the Colorado River Thousand Trails about an hour away. Coming down from Brandi’s we’d just been running the fans, since as forecast, the weather was very overcast and about 75 degrees. And it was supposed to be the same this afternoon.
But as we got back to the rig, the sun was coming out and temps were rising. So we turned off the fans, closed the windows, and cranked up the generator to run the AC’s.
The generator was being a little cantankerous, however, at least at the start. The first time it ran for about 5 minutes and quit. The second time it ran about 10 minutes and shut down. But the third time it ran all the rest of the way. I’ll have to check the generator error codes to see if it shows anything.
We were checked in and set up at Colorado River by a little after 4pm, after a busy, fun day.
Thought for the Day:
If you can never remember your password, just change it to ‘Incorrect’. That way if you forget it, the system will remind you.
“Your Password is Incorrect”
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