Our RV Adventures

For our move down to Santa Fe, we were up about 7:30 to start packing stuff away for the trip.

We were pretty much down by 9, so we headed out to the Conroe Cracker Barrel for our traditional travel day breakfast.

Jan had her usual eggs, bacon, and hash browns,

while I had their Oatmeal.

I really wanted bananas rather than the other fruity stuff, but Cracker Barrel doesn’t have bananas. I’m sorry but it’s not really oatmeal without bananas.

Back at the rig by 10:30, after saying our goodbyes to Dave and Janice Evans, we were hitched up and on the way by 11:30. and we weren’t out of our site for 5 minutes, when someone almost immediately grabbed our site while we still hitching up.

Even through downtown Houston our trip was pretty smooth with no problems at all. Our first stop was the La Marque Buc-ee’s about 1:15 to top off our rig’s diesel tank at $2.27 a gallon, the cheapest I’ve seen recently.

After traipsing through Santa Fe neighborhoods, we pulled into the Petticoat Junction RV Park about 1:45. Finding no one around, I put in a call to the park owners and was told to take site #7. Since it was right behind us I unhitched the truck and then backed us right in.

After resting up about an hour, we drove up to Clear Lake, first to my client’s to pick up Jan’s other birthday present. This:

Instant Pot 8 Qt., 6 in 1, Pressure Cooker.

So Jan’s the proud owner of an Instant Pot. Now to learn how to use it.

Then our next stop was Floyd’s Cajun Seafood, one of our long-time favorite places. We’ve been coming here since the mid-90’s when the place first opened as Thibodeaux’s. When it closed under mysterious circumstances, Floyd Landry, who had been a silent partner, and furnished all the recipes, took it over

Jan, as usual got her favorite Chicken Fried Chicken, with Fries.

while I went with the Seafood Gumbo and a side of Floyd’s Potatoes.

Every time I’ve been to a Floyd’s recently I’ve been alternating back and forth between the Seafood Gumbo,l which had Shrimp and Crab Meat, and the Shrimp Gumbo, which has, well, shrimp. I think I like the plain Shrimp Gumbo better. Actually I wish they offered Oysters with the Seafood Gumbo, but they don’t.

Years ago I tried to talk Floyd into making it that way , and he said it would make the gumbo too expensive. Told him he should just offer it as an extra cost option, then we could order it if we wanted to. But never could convince him.

Tomorrow it’s back to work, but with a much shorter drive. Nice.

The Word of the Day is:  Vituperate

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Today is my Sweetie’s Birthday, and she wants to thank everyone for all the many Birthday Wishes.

One of her presents she won’t get until we’re down in Clear Lake tomorrow and we pick it up at my client’s.

But this was today’s gift.

We’ve been wanting to see TSO for a good while, but we’re usually gate-guarding that time of the year, so this year’s our chance.

About 1:30 I went outside to take care of a few travel chores, with the first being to check the rig tire pressures. One thing I really like about these Hercules Ironman tires is that they just don’t leak down. Seems like I only have to adjust the pressure twice a year or so, just for the change in temps.

When I replaced our Sumitomo’s a couple of years ago, I chose the Ironman’s due to the fact that I saw so many sets on the trucks coming into our gates.  And so far they’ve been great for us.

Next up was to rewire the taillight cable on the rig, I had done the truck end about a month ago, and since we’re going to be towing tomorrow I couldn’t put it off any longer. For some reason I couldn’t convince Jan to made the 80 mile drive down through downtown Houston following the rig.

This time I did remember to stagger the crimp splices so the flex conduit doesn’t look like an anaconda after a big meal.

Finishing up I added water to the rig batteries to top them off.

Done.

About 4:15 Jan and I drove into Conroe to meet up with a bunch of other couples. We were eating at Joe’s Italian Restaurant, a place where Debi and Ed Hurlburt have been eating for years. And it turned out to be really good.

We both had salads with Ranch.]

Jan had the Chicken Alfredo,

while I had the Spaghetti Carbonara.

Both delicious and enough to take home.

Then they brought out a piece of cheesecake birthday cake for Jan,

and we all sang Happy Birthday to my Sweetie. Thanks for settng that up, Debi.

We had a large group which ended up spreading out to an adjacent booth.

Finally we headed home with a quick stop at the Wal-Mart for a prescription, getting home about 7:30.

Tomorrow we’ll head down to the Petticoat Junction RV Park in Santa Fe, where we’ll stay for the next couple of months at least.

The Word of the Day is: Salubrious 

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