Our RV Adventures

We left the park about 3:30 for our usual 1 hour trip into Katy to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at Texas Tradition, a local Katy restaurant that they discovered a week or so ago.

But our normal 60 minute trip took over 90 minutes due to 45 miles of rolling phantom slowdowns. And it started as soon as we turned onto US-10 in Columbus with bumper to bumper 10mph traffic as far as we could see.

But then a couple of miles out of town everyone started speeding up, and very quickly we were all doing the 75mph speed limit,

For about 5 miles. And then the brake lights came on, and we all quickly slowed down to a dead stop. But then after a few minutes we again slowly started moving forward. The creeping along lasted for another few minutes until suddenly everyone accelerated back up to 75 again. On several of the wide, sweeping curves where we could see the road for several miles, all we could see was solid traffic. Nothing but brake lights.

And the outbound side of I-10 had no problems whatsoever all the way.

This whole ‘rinse, lather, repeat’ thing lasted all the way until where the speed limit drops to 65 at the Waller county line and the Colorado River. Then everyone sped up to 75 again and it stayed that way until we got off I-10 15 miles later.]

We never saw any accidents, any construction, or any reason for the slowdown/speedups. So who knows.

I can’t wait for driverless cars. For everyone else, but not for me.

But it did cause us to be about 30 minutes late to meet the kids. But it was worth the wait.

Texas Tradition is a smallish family restaurant on US-90 near downtown Katy, And boy is it good. And the portions are enormous too.

Brandi had the Seafood Platter, while Lowell and Jan had the Chicken Fried Chicken Platter, Jan’s with Fried Okra and Homemade Mashed Potatoes.

I went with the Jalapeno Bacon Cheeseburger with Sweet Potato Fries.

And even though we were all stuffed, we couldn’t resist getting a couple of their fabulous homemade desserts to take home.

Jan went for the Chocolate Cream Pie,

while I checked out the Hot Apple Crisp.

And because the portions were so big, we all had plenty of leftovers to go with our desserts.

Getting our hugs, and our mail, we headed back to Colorado River TT a little after 6pm, with no slowdowns at all. But the incoming side seemed to have the same problems as this afternoon, with areas where everyone was speeding along, and areas where they were all just poking along.

Strange!

One day last week it was ‘Bring Your iPad to Dayschool’ Day. So Landon used his to take a selfie of him and his ‘girlfriend’.

She’s cute as a button, but we didn’t have her parent’s permission to post, so I blurred her face.

Thought for the Day:

Life is too short to worry about removing a USB drive ‘safely’.

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I thought I’d bring you up on the status of my recent repairs and/or fixes.

I recently replaced our 8 year old dead water pump and although we’ve only used it once since then, it’s working fine so far. Here’s the story

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/06/pump-it-up/

and here’s the one I used.

Shurflo 3.0 GPM  RV Water Pump

It’s certainly quieter than the old one.

I’ve done two repairs on our rig’s AC’s in the last few months. Most recently it was a stopped up evaporator drain pan on our rear AC, causing water to leak down into the bedroom.

Here’s that story.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/06/it-was-late-and-i-was-tired/

I still plan on getting back up on the roof to finish completely cleaning the coil, especially now that we’re in a nice shady site. But for right now, it’s still not leaking.

Back in April, our 9 month old Coleman Mach 15, our front AC, quit cooling. After doing some troubleshooting, I discovered that for some reason the AC compressor was not receiving the signal from the thermostat. The fan would turn on, but not the compressor. Here’s more info on that.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/04/buttoning-up/

I discovered by shorting the turn-on voltage between the fan to the compressor, everything worked.

Here’s more about the final fix. It’s still working great.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/03/cool-again-for-now/

A week or so ago, I came across a new non-kinking, collapsible RV water hose and gave it a try. It’s called the Zero G RV and Marine Hose and is available from Camping World and other dealers.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/06/a-new-hose-and-a-fixed-microwave/

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/06/a-well-fed-anaconda/

My most recent repair was to our Sharp Microwave Convection Oven. The door refused to open, due to a broken latch. Here’s that story.

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/06/easier-than-i-thought/

https://ourrvadventures.com/2016/06/a-new-hose-and-a-fixed-microwave/

The black one at the bottom of the photo is the new one, and looks much stronger than the original. The new one is still working fine, and hopefully will work another 17 years like the first one.

Both Jan and Miss Karma really the Moose footstool. Sometimes they fight over it, and then sometimes Karma and Jan just have to share..

Tomorrow we’re going to drive into Katy to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon for dinner. We didn’t stop by last night on our way back from Clear Lake since it was so late, after 11pm, when we came through the area. And for that same reason, we didn’t stop at Chris’ as we left the Clear Lake area about 10pm.

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