After a night at Wal-Mart we pulled into the Escapees Rainbow park in Livingston. As I alluded to in the previous post, we’re about as close to home as we’re going to get when we’re in this part of the world. And Livingston is our only real address. So we picked up the mail, did a little business, and relaxed for a few days. So what’s new huh?
There was one momentous event. There is a lumber yard here where you can have your rig weighed to see how you’re doing in that regard. Weight is a big factor in the safety and handling of a motorhome going down the road at 60 MPH, and it had been a while since we found a scale we could use. Remember, this is our home. We don’t hit the road for 6 months, go back to the ‘stick and brick’ and reload with clothes for a different season. If we own it, it’s with us, and it’s on wheels. Anyway, we got the on the scale, got the print out, and checked the weight against our allowable load and, “Viola!!!”. We have over 700 lbs to spare. Hot Damn!! We even made allowance for not having quite a full fuel load. So we went shopping and to the Chinese buffet. LOL!
We stopped in Brazos Bend, Gonzales, San Antonio, and Choke Canyon on the way south. We strolled down the Riverwalk in San Antonio and saw lots of wildlife in Brazos Bend and Choke Canyon. Just another nice drive through Texas that took the better part of a month. Well, it’s big ‘dog gone’ state and it takes a while for us to get across. Most of it spent in very nice Texas state parks. Which is why we buy the yearly pass for sixty bucks. We figure over the course of a year it saves us quite a few $$ and there are a mess of state parks to enjoy.
Now we are in Mission in the Rio Grand Valley on the southern border. We’ll be here for the next couple of months or so enjoying the weather and meeting new friends and looking forward to the New Year and lots more travel and fun. We won’t forget our new weight allowance! Hopefully we won’t use it up in personal weight gain from too many tortillas and frijoles.
There was one momentous event. There is a lumber yard here where you can have your rig weighed to see how you’re doing in that regard. Weight is a big factor in the safety and handling of a motorhome going down the road at 60 MPH, and it had been a while since we found a scale we could use. Remember, this is our home. We don’t hit the road for 6 months, go back to the ‘stick and brick’ and reload with clothes for a different season. If we own it, it’s with us, and it’s on wheels. Anyway, we got the on the scale, got the print out, and checked the weight against our allowable load and, “Viola!!!”. We have over 700 lbs to spare. Hot Damn!! We even made allowance for not having quite a full fuel load. So we went shopping and to the Chinese buffet. LOL!
We stopped in Brazos Bend, Gonzales, San Antonio, and Choke Canyon on the way south. We strolled down the Riverwalk in San Antonio and saw lots of wildlife in Brazos Bend and Choke Canyon. Just another nice drive through Texas that took the better part of a month. Well, it’s big ‘dog gone’ state and it takes a while for us to get across. Most of it spent in very nice Texas state parks. Which is why we buy the yearly pass for sixty bucks. We figure over the course of a year it saves us quite a few $$ and there are a mess of state parks to enjoy.
Now we are in Mission in the Rio Grand Valley on the southern border. We’ll be here for the next couple of months or so enjoying the weather and meeting new friends and looking forward to the New Year and lots more travel and fun. We won’t forget our new weight allowance! Hopefully we won’t use it up in personal weight gain from too many tortillas and frijoles.
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