Good Mornin' San Antonio!
Well, our time here at Hidden Valley RV Park is over. I can't believe that four months have gone by so fast!
We have enjoyed our stay here but both Joyce and I are getting "hitch itch" and are ready for more adventures. After leaving San Antonio we'll head east to Goliad for a couple of days. You may remember that we hosted at the State Historical Park there last year for two months last year. The Goliad County Fair and Rodeo is going on and The Scott Taylor Band, our favorite Texas band, is going to be playing. That will be a great way to kick off a forty-five days of traveling! We hope to see some of the friends we made there last year again as well.
This past week we got to know Denny and Sheri Sejkora from Marion, Iowa. They came to Hidden Valley from the Rio Grande Valley where the spent a month and now are working their way home. Denny and Sheri are farmer's who grow corn, soy beans, hay and lambs and we found it fascinating to learn about their business.
We had supper with Denny and Sheri at their beautiful 38-foot Montana the a few nights ago and then we had them to our house on Friday evening. Fantastic food and a bottle of good wine with new friends makes for a great time.
03/06/2012
Yesterday was a kick-back day for me. I worked on our itinerary for the trip to the right coast, watched a little TV and greeted three couples from Medford, OR area.
The trip to Massachusetts and then down to Florida this summer is under revision. The price of fuel is heading north with no end in sight so we may have to cut out some of the stops we wanted to make. If fuel comes down to below $3.25 a gallon we could do everything but I don't see that anytime soon.
It has been quite awhile since Joyce has made a donation to the local economy so Joyce drove over to the Kickapoo Lucy Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass. Ok, that's done.
03/09/2012
Yesterday was a very productive day for us.
First we drove up to the MAC TLC store and had an additional 4 gigs of RAM installed in my computer. I have always believed in "mo Ram, mo betta" and even though MAC's are much more efficient in using RAM that a Windows PC, I was getting a lot of disk swaps. I typically have eight to ten programs running at one time, some of them being very graphic's intensive so the additional 4 gigs will prevent a lot of disk searching. Right now I have eight applications running and everything is running smoothly.
While we were there Joyce inquired about putting more memory in her MAC Book Pro and found out that the costs would be the same as mine. However, the gal at the desk said that the old memory sticks in my 'puter will work in her's so we had the tech install them.
After that we found a Toys 'R Us store and got Abigail's birthday presents which we will need to mail off today.
After a very quick stop at Wally-Mart, we went out to the BX at Lackland so that I could get a haircut. While I was doing that, Joyce did some browsing in the BX and discovered iHome had come out with a Blue Tooth keyboard for the iPad.
If you have an iPad you know that the virtual keyboard is somewhat of a pain to use, especially when you want to do a lot of typing. This new keyboard, although small, will help.
All-in-all, a very good day. We are off work again today and have are going up to San Marcos to visit friends.
03/16/2012
We are now at Goliad State Historical Park in Goliad, TX. Came over here for the Goliad Rodeo and the dance after the show featuring The Scott Taylor Band. We need a fix of our favorite Texas band one more time before leaving for the left coast.
The last week at Hidden Valley was pretty much tied up with getting everything ready to travel. Rv'ers end to put stuff away for connivence rather than for traveling, especially when sitting for a long as we did this winter. So, it usually takes a couple of days to put everything away properly before hitting the road. Also, I waxed the front cap on our rig, lubed the slide-outs, the leveling jacks and generally cleaned up in the basement.
I had an issue with my iPad 2 the other day. Without going into detail with what caused the problem which I think was my fault, I took it to the Apple Store in San Antonio. After explaining what the problem was and what I had done to correct it, the Genius replaced it immediately. He didn't even bat an eye about it. Now that is service!
After getting the rig hooked up, we headed up I-35 to a truck repair shop to get our tires on the trailer balanced. Most, if not all, trailer manufacturers don't balance your new rigs tires before delivery and that should be one of your first stops after taking delivery. Yep, we had net done that and we have some wear issues on our tires which we think will be corrected with balancing. After getting that done, we headed down I-37 to US 181 through Floresville and Kenedy then on TX 239 into Goliad, arriving at the State Park about 2:30 PM.
After checking in at the office and pulling into the camping loop, we noticed a familiar rig parked in one of the sites. It belongs to Gerry and Linda Moss who we hosted with here last year! We visited for a while and made plans to go to supper out in Weesatche on Saturday night.
Today Joyce and I are going to check out the rodeo and then do a little dancing. Gonna be a good one!
03/17/2012
Yesterday Joyce and I walked to downtown Goliad for the County Fair and Rodeo Parade. As you would expect in a small Texas town, the parade consisted of a lot of fire engines, sheriff cars, local town floats and horses.
The Cactus Tree
Trail To Goliad From The Park
Outside The Trailer
I have said this before, but at the risk of sounding repetitious, this small town has more going for it that most large cities anywhere in the country. The folks that live here are friendly, God fearing, hard working people that sure know how to have a good time. The gentlemen still tip their hat to the ladies and the younger folks say "yes sir and no mam". And, what really stands out is that they love Goliad!
Rodeo Parade:
Last years high school auto shop project
The girl driving along with the the three girls on the railing restored this tractor this year.
There are places in the US that would not allow this float in a parade.
Everybody havin' fun!
This was built by a 12 year old student as his first Ag Mechanic project.
Spring has sprung in TX!
Last night we went to supper at the Corner Cafe And Saloon in Weesatche with Gerry and Linda Moss. Now this is our kind of joint! Old, rickety, an old hardwood floor that isn't quite level and galvanized buckets for light fixtures. Oh, but what great food!
Check out the light fixtures.
I'm not going to say what Joyce and I had to eat since you can be sure that it wasn't very healthy but, man was it good! Washed down with a cold Lone Star beer mad it even better.
Today we are leaving Goliad and heading to Kerrville. Our plan was to just stay there one night and then drive on to Fort Stockton but that may change. The weather guesser's are calling for very high winds in that area and then even high winds up in the Roswell, NM area. We might just hunker down in Kerrville for a couple of days. We have no desire or need to go to a place that might have winds up to 60 mph.
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