Monthly Archives: August 2016
Recuperating . . .
After several days of early risings, I finally got to sleep in this morning, made much nicer by the steady rain on the rig’s roof.
It’s nice to just set back for awhile and do not much of anything. After coffee and toast, I spent the morning catching up on some web stuff that was delayed during our recent traveling.
Then I started looking through some recent ads I’d seen for gate guard openings. I’m also trying to track down a listing I saw recently for wind farm gate guarding jobs in OK. I know I saved it off somewhere.
About 2pm I went down to the park office to settle up for our stay here. We used up our 50 free days a good while ago, since we alternated between Colorado River and Lake Conroe every two weeks. So now we’re paying $5 day plus $3 a day for 50 amps. So we’re paying $8 day, still a very good deal.
Of course our projected 12 day stay here may get cut short if we get a gate in the meantime.
This coming Saturday is Landon’s 6th birthday, and Brandi is having his party at the Main Event Entertainment Center in Katy. With bowling, bocce ball, billiards, laser tag, and a rock climbing wall, it’s got something for everyone. Should be fun.
We got Landon a couple of robot kits for his gifts, a Table Top Robot Crab that runs around the table top and when it senses the edge, turns and goes in another direction,
and a Solar Powered Transforming Robot that makes a number of different units.
They’re both for 8 years and up, but he’s really good at building up the animated Lego kits so I suspect he’ll have no trouble with these either.
Thought for the Day:
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Home Again at Colorado River . . .
With a 300 mile trip ahead of us today, and wanting to avoid the rush hour traffic going through Houston in the afternoon, we were up at 6:30 and pulling out of our site by 8am.
Since we stayed hitched up last night, prepping for travel this morning consisting of stowing the satellite stuff, letting in the awnings, and unplugging shore power, at least on the outside. Inside Jan finished up with her stuff and we were ready to roll.
We took I-20 back toward Shreveport for a few miles and then got onto US79 south about 30 miles until we got on US59 at Carthage, the location of our last year’s gate guarding job.
Then it was another 170 miles down through Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Livingston, and Cleveland before we got on the Sam Houston Tollway and headed west.
Coming through Nacogdoches we passed right by the big Foretravel plant. And I guess due to this, there seems to be a lot of RV sales lots here for a town this size.
Then just outside Lufkin, the light drizzle we been driving through since we left Miss Ellie’s RV Park turned into a heavy downpour for a while before settling down to a steady rain.
Of course right before I started to navigate the obstacle course where US59 merges into the Tollway, the bottom dropped out, so much so, I couldn’t even see the lane lines. So I just followed the semi in front of me and hoped he could see the lane better than I could.
Finally out on 1-10 west the rain cleared up as we passed through Brookshire. We got into the Colorado River Thousand Trails a little before 2pm and got set up in A1, one of our favorite sites here.
We’re here for 12 days before we move back to the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails, or we will if we don’t get a gate before then. I’m go to start making some calls tomorrow.
One encouraging sign was when we passed the US Rig Count sign as we left the Katy area. A little over 2 weeks ago, the rig count was 462, and today it was 481, up 17 just this week. So every little bit helps.
Looking back over our trip, we averaged a little over 8.4 mpg going over to Gulf Shores and then up to north Alabama. Then coming home where we had a lot more hills, we dropped down a little to about 8.2 mpg. This is with me holding 55 to 60 the whole trip. Not bad.
Thought for the Day:
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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