I'm home.....may I quote Shania?
Road trip was great. First day rain, not heavy.
Day two, sunshine like I am used to.
Today, cloudy and 58 when I arrived home, 1293 miles
I think....
There's lots of space to move around in a ranch
home....funny, in Texas
we are outdoors so often, the indoors, of an RV, it
doesn't matter.....
I need to download the last photos so I can show
you my new RV site at Llano.....carry on.....
This is what greeted me to the valley, my new home, Llano Grande and the gas prices.
Today I paid from $1.94 to @2.12 per gallon, premium, for gas. What comes around, goes around. I think we were down as low at $1.39 per gallon this winter. I hope to live at Llano for a few years. If the brothers decide to come down,new living quarters will have to be arranged. Workamping is great, especially if you have a spouse to share the hours.
Come on down to the Rio Grande Valley some time to visit. Over 1,000 RV parks and
as many hotel/motel rooms at great prices. I will show you a good time.Carry on......
April 27. I am in Palestine, Texas, overnight. First stop on the way back to Iowa for the summer. I answered the alarm clock at 6 am, figuring an hour to finish storing away the outside stuff and moving the rest of the inside stuff to the car or the garbage bin. I pulled out of lot #14 at 719 am. By the way, I moved last week, That's another reason that I have not been on the blog for a while. With packing, doing a little bit each day for the last two weeks, I usually quit around 2 pm and then headed to the golf course for 9 holes. I have a huge blister on my left heel and on my fingers, must be gripping the club toooooo tight. Anyway. It was a good ride today, I arrived at my hotel room about 415 pm, in Palestine. It rained most of the ride, very unusual. I have not seen rain since the middle of December while working on the swimming pools. Iowa received a downpour last week end, I hope it is all headed east by Weds., when I make my final cruise home from Joplin, MO. Marla, I am just catching up with your videos, wonderful. I love hearing Drew talk and the fact that he knows his veggies.......Southern Texas and Mexico are famous for avocados, I laughed when he answered that correctly. As far as the flu goes...I was
going to make one more run to Mexico for booze, but heard the news first and stayed in the USA. I would assume that the Kansas and Ohio and Nova Scotia sick folks are all winter Texans, having brought the germs home with them. I am OK and so is brother Greg, he is home from the hospital. I think his problems are a result from the fact he was NOT taking his diabetes medicine. He doesn't get it, his brain works differenly from most folks. The pharmacy did NOT call to tell him the prescription was ready. I hope he has learned something from this episode. WELL, Weds., I will be back in God's country, but dreading the chill...........I might have to wear long pants and I won't get to go to the pool and swim late evenings. OH MY!! This picture is from my last trip to the beach, a short bridge walk down to the beach..........
I hope you can see the beak, looks like a
spoon...hence the name, spoonbill ducks.
Very pretty.
These are called Tree Ducks, web feet,
hang out in trees and water.
Lots of BIG turtles on all of the golf
courses.
Hole #8 at Llano, 236, uphill the last 75 yards.
I have used the big stick, 5 wood and driving
iron to hit the green, two eagles.
Hole #4 at Llano, 345 yards from forward tee box.
My goal is to drive this before I go home. Just
give me some wind, aim the ball down the right
side of the fairway, to hit the hard brown spot.
I have made it 285!
my teammates on the GOLD winning team.
Rudy and Ruth Assman from Ontario, Canada.
Denny McFarlane, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
We shot a 61 and next year we hope to repeat
the feat!
This is one of the regular sites,
military tanks and armed guards,
to stop the drug cartels.
At the top you see the Beer Wenches, if we
golfers are trash, they are wenches. 2nd, of
course, my cart and team is the party team and
first place with a 29! Some old farts found shade
for dinner while teammate Jerry flips me off.
Then you see Jerry's campaign posters from last
year, he is now ex mayor of Juarez. Rules for
the event, you have to live on the east side in
a trailer, or used to be in a trailer, or a
friend of trash....that's all. 40 golfers and
many more for dinner. Best food was desert,
strawberry cheese cake! Wonderful!
