San Antonio

We got back to San Antonio without any problems.  I 10 is a good highway with wide shoulders. I like wide shoulders, because sometimes it feels that we are so close to the left edge of the road. We really aren't, but when I think we are close I gasp and that makes Tom nervous and then we both get nervous and..... well you can imagine. We have to stop at a roadside park, take a break and eat cookies and milk to calm down. I wonder if other couples have this problem? Tom is really a very good driver. I know the problem is me.

We were tired, so we waited to put the screens on the coach until the next day. We had to put them up early because it was so hot. The heat on that big window can be unbelievable.

Here we are all settled in again.

We went over to see the grand kids. They jumped and squealed. I guess they missed us.  They are the cutest. We have been so blessed..    

    
I have been working on taking pictures for the last two days. I have a nice camera.
It is a point and shoot Cannon. I just need to learn the manual settings, so I can take better pictures in low light. My daughter has a real nice Nikon, but it is too big for me. Tom spend years in the Air Force, as a photojournalist, carrying around a 35mm camera, lenses and lots of accessories. Everywhere we went this big camera bag went. He has had the shoulder replacement to show for it.
I 'll just learn to use my little Cannon point and shoot and my Kodak Play Sport.

Here is a picture I took yesterday while we were walking Rascal. We have several rabbits that live in the brush here at the park.

The man next door said he saw a huge  taranchula yesterday. I hope I don't run into him.

La Dolcha Vita for you!

Day Trip to Fredricksburg

Here are a few pictures of the rally. I need to work on my photo skills, but that will be fun.

Yesterday Tom and I spent the day relaxing. After the rally we were TIRED.  We did get rested up and decided to take a trip to Fredricksburg today to explore. We drove out Highway 16 from Kerrville. We passed the house I lived in growing up. It is on top of a hill a few miles outside of town. We had been there before and had discovered it was NOTHING like it was when my parents owned it. Funny thing... well, that was a few years ago. Actually the house was for sale. If we were looking for a house (and we are not) that would be a great location.

We drove down the main street in Fredricksburg and decided we wanted to eat at the

We had not eaten there before. As we walked in we saw the most beautiful pictures of Germany.

We had a salad, German potato soup and a Rueben sandwich with German potato salad.
  Yummmmmmm!

We walked down the street and came upon a ol' fashion dime store. It was just like the dime store I remembered in Kerrville as a kid.  I took a few pictures.

The only thing I did not see was "Evening in Paris" perfume.

We finished our day with a visit to the German bakery for some apple strudel.
A perfect way to end our day.

RV-Dreams Rally

Tom and I have been attending the RV-Dreams Rally at the Buckhorn Lake RV Resort in Kerrville,Texas. The rally has been put on by Howard and Linda Payne. We have lived in our RV for awhile, but I think we are really just starting the RV lifestyle. We have learned so much this week and have been motivated to go out more into the traveling world.

We still have reasons we need to stay close to San Antonio, but we will be able to go out with more confidence. It is like Howard Payne said several times. "Go slow and have patience.

Tom and I have been to many conferences and events in the past. We can say the rally Howard and Linda put on has been a 1st class event. Each seminar was done in the most excellent manner. They took care of the details which made everything run so smoothly.

A wonderful surprise has been the many friends we have made in such a short period of time.When people who are interested in this lifestyle get together they have a great deal to talk about. We look forward to running into these new friends sometime on the road.

I am going to try and master blogging.... mainly because I enjoy reading other blogs, even when they don't have exciting things going on every day. I know that blogs really helped us keep our dream of full timing alive for several years.  Although I am not a  great, witty writer, I am going to do it anyway. Maybe in the future our grandkids will look back and see what grandma and grandpa were up to in the year 2012.

I will try and post some pictures of the rally when I get that part of blogging figured out.

June 2011

Tom have been living in our motor home since the end of January. This has been the most interesting adventure. A very long time dream finally coming true.

We started out thinking we knew a few things, but a motor home is a VERY complicated machine. One of the first things we learned was how to keep everything from freezing. San Antonio had a cold month of February, several nights in the teens.

Well, Spring came to San Antonio. We remained at the RV park and got use to living in the RV. We did make a trip, about 300 miles, to Del Rio to visit family. The driving was a little scary at first, but we made it. Eirik, Aarin, and the babies, Caden and Addy, went with us.

We made another trip. This was a shorter trip, but across San Antonio on 1604 to I35 and up to New Braunfels. I got 643 new gray hairs on this trip.

Camping World put the tow package on the RV and car.While we were there we had them look at the battery on - off switch. We remained in that area for a few days after the work was done. It was strange to have all our worldly stuff with us and sleep in the Camping World parking lot.

Here it is June. We have been making plans to do more traveling. We decided that we would remain where we are for July and August. In September and October we would take off a little and visit some of the favorite state parks that we had camped at in the past.