Our RV Adventures

I had planned for us to get up about 6:30, but we ended up sleeping in for an extra hour.

So finally up at 7:30 we got ready to roll before we headed out for breakfast at around 8:30am. As we did last week before leaving for Lake Conroe, we had Schobel’s in Columbus, and once again Jan had her Veggie Omelet while I had the Chicken and Waffles.

Getting back to the rig, we were hitched up and rolling by 10:30 heading for Junction, TX about 250 miles away.

About an hour later, we made our usual Buc-ee’s stop at the Luling. Before going inside we filled up with 90 gallons of diesel at $2.19/gallons, the lowest in the area.

While we were filling up, we were watching the travelers right across from us walk their dogs, even little ones,

while others walked their . . .

sheep?

You never know what you’ll see in Texas. Guess they’re on their way to the rodeo in Houston.

Unlike our past San Antonio pass-throughs, today’s seem to take forever, whether from the obvious construction zones, or those ‘phantom’ slowdowns. You know, those several miles of creeping along, that suddenly just disappear when everyone just speeds up.

We got into Junction and the Pecan Valley RV Park about about 3:30 and were given a nice, long pull-through site.

They even furnish leveler pad blocks if you need them. A first for us.

As it turns out Pecan Valley RV Park is in an actual pecan grove.

They were trimming and pruning the trees, and then burning the branches, making for a great smokey smell in the air.

The Junction area is known for bad cell/data service, no matter who your carrier is. Which is why I thought that posting a blog last night was questionable.

So I was happy to see a very strong park Wi-Fi signal. BUT . . . There’s always a BUT, right?

The park uses the OpenDNS content filtering service, which restricts your access to sites that are on a black list, I guess like porn sites, movie download sites, and other like places. However it doesn’t explain why I could access the New York Times website, but not the Washington Post site. In fact about half stories on Yahoo News were blocked.

And so was our OurRVAdventures.com and Nick’s GypsyJournal Blog site. Why I don’t know, but it kept me from posting the blog last night.

Tomorrow’s trip will be 310 miles to Van Horn and the Southern Star RV Park, where we stayed in 2015. And it has a really good steak place right next door.

Thought for the Day:

Nothing is more certain than death, and nothing is more uncertain than the time of dying.

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For one last time we were out the door at 8:15 for the two hour drive down to Clear Lake for our last two Dr. appointments.

Mine at 10:30 was a redo with my GP to repeat some blood work that gave some anomalous results. There seems to be some disagreement between two different blood testing companies.

In Jan’s case, she had blood work done at her oncologist, and then 8 days later, the same blood work done at our GP. Tested by two different companies, they show a couple of major discrepancies. Levels that were outside the norm on one were firmly in the middle of the normal range from the other lab.

It’s kind of like the saying “A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.†So which lab do you base any treatments on?

Although my appointment was at 10:30, I didn’t get called in until after 11:15, which meant that when I got out at 12:15, we didn’t have time to have lunch one last time at King Food before Jan’s endocrinologist appointment at 1pm.

So our Plan B was the nearby Whataburger as soon as Jan was finished. Not a bad Plan B.

Then it was on over to our son Chris’ for goodbye hugs. And it was our good luck that Miss Piper was there too. So we got double hugs!

We were back on the road to Columbus by 2:45, managing to stay mostly ahead of the Houston going-home traffic. Along the way we called our friend and Colorado River park ranger, Barbara Spade, to meet us at the Los Cucos Mexican Restaurant in Columbus for dinner.

Since Jan and I had eaten about three hours earlier, we just shared a Fajita Mexicanas Platter for one. A great time, great food, and Barbara was nice enough to treat us.

It doesn’t get much better than that.

Heading home we made a quick stop at HEB for a couple of things before getting back to the coach about 6:30.

Tomorrow we have a 250 mile trip to Junction, TX, the first stop on our way to Tucson. Really getting the hitch itch.

There is a possibility that there will be no blog tomorrow night. Phone/Data service has always been very spotty there in the past, so we’ll see if there’s been any improvement.