Luling & bluebonnets

Here we are setup for one night at River's Bend CG, a Passport America site for $15, FHUs.  Lulling has a Blake's Restaurant and great chicken fried steak.  We were traveling west on secondary roads when a SUV pulled along side us and honked his horn.  It was Skeetshooter (Ted & Donna Rogers)!!  They live outside Houston and were going to visit a friend and recognized our RV, how cool was that?  We called each other and talked awhile , they will be at the rally we are headed to.  Small world huh?

                          We are starting to see bluebonnets and Indian paint brush (we think) wildflowers.

After dinner we rode around Luling with Ron & Roberta who decided to continue along to Ingram, TX with us. There are lots of oil wells all over busy pumping oil (oe gas?).  The city has decorated some of them........

Livingston, TX Escapee HQ

We stopped at Rainbow's End (Escapee HQ) for a planned 2 nights so we can get the rig weighed with the new truck and the changes we have made in the last 2 years.  Due to the forecast for thunderstorms we stayed an extra day which was good because it gave us more time to spend with Rudy & Linda Hingst.  They are Texans and purchasing a long time lot to use as their base, they have family in the area.  The bad storms never materialized, just clouds and rain.

                                  The WWII Iwo Jima flag raising was behind the Whataburger.

                           Rudy & Linda......looks like they are upset that the onion rings are about gone.

 

                                                      We spotted a Texas short horn cow.

Winter is over,time to travel

We have left Gulf Shores at 8:45 am after sitting there for over 5 months.  We are headed to the hill country in Texas for a HitchHiker rally with 25 or 30 other couples.  We made the 374 mile trip to Kinder, LA and Coutschatta Casino, it was a long but good day and a lot longer that we usually like to travel.  It will now allow us 3 short travel days to arrive in Ingram, TX Friday.  We are travelling with Ron & Roberta Austin who are also headed to the rally.

Steve & Suzy left & the last supper

                     Patches trying out a new shoe box.  Looks like me trying on a Speedo swimsuit.

Here's Steve and Suzy escaping Gulf Shores headed for Texas to register their new truck.  They have been our neighbors for the last couple of months.  It looks like Lulu in the back seat is ready for this trip!

Here's the last food outing before leaving Gulf Shores.  Tom & Heather, Don & Zola, Judy & I, Jenny & Craig, and Ron & Roberta.  We went to Portabella's, an Italian place, in Foley.....wish we knew it was so good because we'd have gone there a lot more!

Visitors

We had a couple visitors at the Gulf Shores airport this week.  I spotted them on the way to supper and stopped on the way back for a quick picture.  Checking into it there are here for 3 days as they tout the USA.  

                                                                              B17

                                                                               B24

Campground's Mardi Gras float

                                       Oh Boy, here comes the campgrounds Mardi Gras float!
                             Practice for the big parades in Orange Beach & Golf Shores this weekend.

                                   WOW, treasures of beads and Moon Pies for Judy, Suzy & Steve.

New fridge, eating out with friends and ice in Gulf Shores

                   Our RV fridge died so we replaced it with a residential fridge, think it made Judy happy?

                                            One of the HitchHiker lunch outings at Mikee's

.                                     Here we are gathering for a pot luck in the park's pavilion.

                           This was early afternoon before the ice storm and cold hit later this afternoon.  We were                                                 hoping the weather forecast would be wrong.

  

                                                  Later,,,,looking out the back window.

Ice on the ladder.  This is the first time we have had ice on our home sweet home!  It dropped to the low and mid 20s at night and stayed at freezing during the day.  This lasted 2 days but was nothing like what Randy & Devyn are enduring in Michigan.

                    I didn't get any good shots of the sad drooping palm trees but this was on our site.