Our RV Adventures

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.

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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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or Lost in Translation.

Well, that didn’t go as planned.

Jan was up about 8 this morning, to get ready for our trip down to Katy to our daughter Brandi’s for a family get-together for our son Chris’ birthday. I was going to get up about 8:30, and we were going to leave about 9:30, picking up Rudy’s BBQ for everyone along the way. Jan was also bringing a big pan of her Sopapilla Cheesecake that everyone was looking forward to.

But getting up, Jan found several phone calls waiting for her, from both Chris and Brandi. Somehow we all got our wires crossed, and although Jan and I were sure we heard Saturday, apparently everyone else knew it was Sunday.

Now I think we would have noticed if it was going to be Sunday, tomorrow, because that’s the day we move back to the Colorado River Thousand Trails in Columbus. So, a quick change of plans.

First things first, I went back to bed. Nice!

So now, we’ll change our schedule for tomorrow’s trip. We’ll skip our usual Cracker Barrel breakfast and pull out of the site about 8:30. After hooking up, this should put us out on I-45 south about 8:45. Then it’s a stop for diesel at the Flying J along the way, right before we get on the Tollway.

Now, sometimes we’ve been in and out there in 15 minutes, and once it was over 45 minutes, so I’m allowing extra time for that. But we’ll make up most or all of that because we won’t have to make the Rudy’s BBQ stop.

And that was because this afternoon we decided to drive down to the Rudy’s in the Woodland’s area and pick our BBQ today. And even better, it gave us a good excuse to have dinner at the Torchy’s Tacos in the same area. A Two’fer!

I guess you could call Torchy’s a ‘gourmet’ taco place. I mean, with ahi tuna tacos, grilled salmon tacos, or ones with Jamaican Jerked Chicken, Fried Avocados, or Jalapeno Sausage, it’s hard to call them anything else.

We started out with the Green Chile Queso & Chips.

This time Jan tried the Baja Shrimp, as well as her usual Brushfire, which is the Jerked Chicken.

Me, I stayed in my usual tasty rut, with the Jalapeno Sausage and the Green Chile Shredded Pork.

Jan liked her Baja Shrimp, but will probably go back to her Trailer Park taco, which has Fried Chicken and Green Chiles, with cheese and pico de gallo.

After a delicious meal, we drove on down the Interstate to the Rudy’s for our BBQ. They were pretty busy, so it took about me about 15 minutes to pick up 1-1/2 pounds of moist brisket and 1-1/2 pounds of lean (or dry and chewy as I call it). This is Jan’s favorite.

I also got a couple of quarts of the Creamed Corn. Jan doesn’t really like corn, but she loves the way Rudy’s does it. A loaf of bread and a lot of Rudy’s Sauce, and we were on our way back north.

Our final stop was at the Conroe Sam’s Club for a case of Joint Juice for Jan’s knees and joints. We had checked at Wal-mart and several other places, and everyone was out of it. But we’ve never not found it at Sam’s. Until today.

But before I could look for the Joint Juice, I needed to renew my Sam’s card. Now normally I would do this at the register, but this time I wanted to downgrade my Plus card to a regular card, saving $30 over the Plus card’s $99.

We had originally upgraded to the Plus a few years ago because it offered additional prescription discounts. But then Sam’s stopped honoring Wal-Mart’s $4 – $10 prescription list, so it ceased making a difference.

The line at the Customer Service was long enough that a manager came over help out. And luckily for me, he was a little rusty on the computer. He was able to give me my new, downgraded card, but he couldn’t get the system to charge me the $69 for it.

So finally, in frustration, he handed my new card and said, “Here! It’s free this year.”

Nice!

But I didn’t get to used my shiny new card for Joint Juice, because they didn’t have any either. And the pharmacist said she hadn’t seen it in a while. So now we’ll have to look elsewhere.

Jan has been taking Joint Juice for years, even before we started RV’ing. And she knows from experience that if she goes off it, within 3 or 4 weeks, she’ll start having a lot of knee pain. So when we got home I went online to see what I could find.

Amazon had it for $34 for a case of 30, with free Prime Two Day Shipping, but that’s about $10 more than Sam’s price. So I did a generic Google search and found Jet.com

I’m sure you’ve seen the TV commercials with people’s exploding heads and purple smoke. That’s Jet.com. And they have great prices, and great service.

The case of Joint Juice that Sam’s sells for $25, and Amazon sells for $34, Jet.com sells it for $18.26. And that’s with Free Two Day Shipping. In addition, I got another $0.26 cents off because I waived Free Return, and then another 1.5% off because I used a debit card, rather than a credit card. Nice and Nicer!

I’ll probably be ordering more stuff from Jet.com at these prices.

Thought for the Day:

When you continuously jumps to conclusions, you inevitably come to a cliff.

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