Settling in for a bit

We're in South Carolina now, at the Short Stay Recreation area for military at Moncks corner SC.  If you don't know, SC is my home state and where Mike and I met, married, and started our family. We're looking forward to seeing several family and friends over the next couple of months, including our daughter and her family, my brother and his family, many cousins and other relatives as well as old friends. Just chilling for a while with more plans to travel Christmas week and return here for several weeks. 

Lake Moultrie, where our campground is located,  is part of the Santee Cooper project created in the 1930s for hydro-electric power. The lakes were made from the Santee river. It's counterpart, Lake Marion is slightly northwest of Moultrie and the water from both continues on into the Cooper river which meets the Atlantic Ocean in Charleston SC. The fishing is world famous here. I'm not a fisherman but Mike's been enjoying it. 

Our last 3 days have been a deluge of rain. It's drying out a little today and hopefully we'll get sunshine soon! 

The campground has put some Christmas decorations around the place and it's nice to have them. I don't miss the decorations at home, especially with not having to climb ladders and figure out extension cords! 

Ww Ranch Harvest Host

 Our stay near Jacksonville Fla was based on driving time between Eglin AFB FL and Short Stay Navy rec area, SC.  What we found was WW Ranch, a Motorcross training facility on a working ranch owned by a really fine gentleman named Junior. He was an awesome host who graciously served us as we took up space on his property. We were set up next to his Motorcross training facility where you g folks come to learn how to ride with the finest! 

The ranch is huge and has all sorts of livestock and natural beauty. Junior allowed us to take the RZR around the trails and view the place. So lovely! 

We did have to make a trip into Jacksonville on Sunday because bour propane on the RV was low  We headed to a U-Haul to learn there wasn't anyone there qualified to pump the propane. We proceeded to contact and inquire 4 more propane dealers to learn that non could serve us that day, either they were closed for inventory, out of propane, or didn't sell propane. Needless to say driving a 31' motorhome around Jacksonville Fla and not locating a propane seller was frustrating at least! We ended up purchasing an "exchange" tank at a gas station so we could have heat, stove and hot water that night!  It was all worth it though because the ranch and Junior made it all worthwhile!

Heading across the Deep South: New Orleans to Florida

We stayed in New Orleans, LA for a few days. Mostly kicking back and enjoying the warm weather. Mike washed the RV and took lots of dust and dirt off to make it shiny again. Of course, that night it rained! Even so, it looked much cleaner and it was good to get the grime and dirt off! 

 We visited the French Quarter and walked a few miles around New Orleans. We really enjoyed our Bienet and cafe au lait breakfast!

We ducked in and out of a few gift shops and marveled at the beautiful architecture and landscape of the city.

Cool town, but we had enough after one day of sightseeing! It was a lot of walking for two old folks 😉

We traveled from New Orleans via I-10 mostly passing through Mississippi (where we stopped at our first Buccee's, that's an experience!). I didn't get a picture of the place but Buccee's are giant truck/stop/travel center/ gas station places that offer really good food and all sorts of souvenirs, necessities and anything else you might want on a road trip stop!

We ended up at Eglin AFB at the campground for families of military and vets called Postal Point. We stayed 4 nights there . The first 3 days were warm and sunny but Thanksgiving Thursday has turned pretty chilly! I got in some nice walks with Maggie and bike rides while enjoying the beachside. Will head on to the Jacksonville area next.

So long, Texas. Hello, Louisiana

We left San Antonio TX yesterday and drove to a Harvest Host called "Snow White Sanctuary" near Vinton LA. It was a lovely setting, and filled with animals. The owners have a sanctuary retreat for animals with a vegan approach to saving animals from farm life. The horses, dogs, chickens, emu,  goats, pigs, turkeys, ducks, and maybe some we missed just wander around the farm living the good life. It was a pretty spot and we enjoyed it. From there we're heading to New Orleans for a few days to enjoy a different atmosphere! 

Warm weather in Texas

We're enjoying warm weather and lots of sunshine in San Antonio TX. We're set up in the RV Park at Joint Base Lackland AFB. They have one of the B-24 Liberators on display here which is the kind of plane my Dad was a mechanic for during the Ploesti raids in WWII. I was excited to see one in person.

We've been here for a week and will be for another week. We're close to San Antonio City and have been downtown twice for sightseeing to the Alamo, and the Riverwalk Boat tour and delicious Mexican food.

Life is good and we're still loving living in the RV!

Busy few days and lovely weather!

Our time in Oklahoma was relaxing and enjoyable. We went to the National Cowboy and Western History Museum and it is very impressive and lots of fun. The outdoors and indoors are full of displays, art, history, and a very broad collection of relics and stories of western history and the making of America as we know it! 

We stayed near the campground most of the week and caught up on laundry, cleaning, and rest. 

One of the campground days I had a notion to bake something. I had brought some of our pear pie filling from the pear tree in our yard in ID, so I made a few fired pies with my air fryer. They turned out pretty yummy even if they weren't too pretty! 😋

Thursday we headed down to Texas, and a little past Ft Worth to a town called Cleburne. We camped at a Harvest Host called Wintergrass Vineyard and Winery.  The hostess, Amy, was really nice and we enjoyed our wine tasting with her in the afternoon. 

The trip Friday to San Antonio was long! Both of our phones were dead because we decided to dry camp without the generator Thursday night at the winery. We won't make that mistake again. Without shore power or generator the electrical outlets are useless. Besides no charging power we also couldn't use our CPAPs to sleep. I didn't sleep at all that night because without the CPAP Mike snored like a buffalo. Between poor sleep and dead phones, travel Friday was a mix of grumpiness, frustration, and unease. We did make it to our destination with a bit of navigational confusion... Paper maps, poor Google map reception, a poor navigator (me), and an amazing but very grumpy driver (Mike). No more non- electric overnights! 

Friday's travels culminated at Lackland AFB Fam Camp in  San Antonio. We'll be here a couple of weeks. It was hot today with lots of sun. Both of us did some work around the rolling home we live in. Mike had some mechanical work in and around the big tow-behind trailer, and he brought out  of it our pickup with some things I needed to to get the class C better organized. It was a long work day, and we felt relieved and tired after getting those chores accomplished.  Thanks for taking time to read and always feel free to send questions, comments or just a hello on Facebook or the blog.  Happy Trails! 

Staying warm as Fall moves in.

We moved south after our stay in Taos NM, typical snowbirds on a southern migration. We spent one night boondocked (the term for camping in an RV with no hookups) in Vega, TX. This was a Harvest Host stay at a Rt. 66 museum. The museum wasn't open over the weekend, but there were lots of neat things outside to see.

This tarantula visited us , a sober reminder that it's wise to be aware of our surroundings. I got close enough to take a picture, but left it alone and didn't see anymore 

 From there we ventured on to Oklahoma City.

The museum here has so much information and exquisite displays of the Western history, including Native American people, cowboy, and military notable stories, art and artifacts.  We enjoyed it very much. 

Thank you for taking the time to check out our adventures. I'll be posting more along the way.