We are Winter Texans

Well, I am almost caught up. After Carlsbad we went further east with Dave and Michele and said our goodbyes in Oklahoma City. They went on east, we went up north to Kansas to go visit our dealer to have some minor warranty repairs done and have him look over the damage we had from the deer accident. Everything went were well and we headed south on the 7th of December. It was an interesting ride through Oklahoma, since an ice storm was coming from the west towards the east and was about 2 hours southwest of us in Tulsa when we started our trip. We had some sleet and the rig had some ice on it for a while, but we made it to Texas by the early afternoon and had to turn on the air conditioning in the truck, since it was over 80 degrees outside.

So here we are again looking for a place to stay for a while. We went to Spring Branch, TX, since we wanted to look at a piece of land there to park the rig for a while and found a very nice campground on the second try and booked it for a month. I was totally happy. It was time to breakout the Christmas decorations and get comfortable. It rained for the first four days and when it did not rain the wind was hauling so bad, it knocked over our satellite dish. But at least I don't have to pack everything up every three days. The weather is very nice in the daytime, however, at night it does get close to freezing and about 5 nights so far it has gotten below freezing, so the flannel sheets are back on the bed.

Doug had heard about a new RV Resort in Mission, TX that was just about to open and the reviews were pretty good. So one day we drove the 280 miles to check it out. It was well worth the effort. It is a beautiful place with Clubhouse, swimming pool and gym for all the members. It is a gated community, which means it is looked at all times and you have a number combination to get in. Our slab is 75 x 100 feet and they build a 12 x 20 feet carriage house on it for whatever you want to do with it. The electric, water and plumbing is all provided by the builder already. We can finish of the inside of the carriage house whichever way we want to.



Our lot is #4107 and when we looked at it the carriage house was not built yet, but they are working on it right now. Tomorrow we will pack up everything again up here and move into our new place for our home.


The planting and upkeep of the plants and grass is all done by the homeowners association so that we don't have to worry about anything when we are not there. Tomorrow is inspection and closing and then we will really sit still until the spring.