Thursday, January 14, 2010

Westward Ho!

We are working on our Rockport Texas review and hope to have that out shortly but it is taking longer than expected so we thought we would give this brief status update.

We left Rockport on January 4th for a week about 12 miles south of San Antonio. As we have mentioned before we like being somewhere a lot more than we like going somewhere so on our jaunt from Rockport Texas to Phoenix Arizona we decided to go some place and stay a few days instead of just heading out each day. After a week we headed to north of San Antonio about 60 miles in the Texas Hill Country in Kerrville where we are staying at our new favorite RV park, the Guadalupe River RV Park, http://www.guadaluperiverrvresort.com/ where we are backed up to the river.

The cats, JJ, Sandra and Tiger, really like the back in sites because we can leave the shades up a little in the back at night. This park has the most wildlife of any of the parks we have been, there are countless birds, squirrels, and about 20 deer roaming the park. For us humans there are walking trails and swinging benches along the river.

Traveling with cats has been interesting. Although they adjusted faster than we did to our new home they don't like moving day either. Any change of routine alerts JJ and he hides. We first had to shut the closet doors so he could not get to his secret room, the storage area under the window seat that he can get to from the closet under the washer dryer. We lock and block the sliding doors for travel and would not want him in his secret room for the whole day of travel. We struggled with where to put the cats during transit and so far have put them in bedroom after we put the slideout in. We always wondered where the cats rode out the trip, Tiger is generally on the window seat looking out or on the bed. The first couple of trips Tiger got herself caught between the shade and the window above the window seat. Jo does the indoor setup while Bob is doing the outdoor setup. Jo saw Tiger trapped and thought she was dead. It took an effort to get her out but she did it again the next time so now we put the shade all the way up. Sandra must be on the floor because we can never see her, and it wasn't until we go to south of San Antonio that we learned that JJ crawls under the bed. Since the bed slides in and out we now shut the bedroom door so he can't get under the bed until the slideout is in and then we have to wait once we get there for him to get out from under the bed. With no other hiding spots available JJ hides in the recliner so Bob has to get on his hands and knees and lift the foot rest and drag him out. JJ goes in first and then the girls, both of which know something is going on but don't try to hide. This last trip was so cute, slideout was in, JJ was put in bedroom and then Bob picked up Tiger. Sandra knowing where she was going walked into the bedroom on her own. By her posture and gait you could tell she was not happy about it but still we thought that it was cute that she did it on her own.

We do have to say we are now living the dream for sure, that full-timing is great. It feels like on vacation most of the time and when we have to do chores it does not take as long as the house and yard did. We still are a little pooped after the big house cleaning days but we can now do the entire place at one time. In the two months since we left the Kansas City area we have already seen sites that have been on our list of things to do for a long time like the Alamo in San Antonio, the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, and the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg Texas which is so good and filled with so much information it took us 2 days to go through. Luckily the entrance fee was good for 48 hours. Fredericksburg is a small town of German ancestry that has a really good German restaurant, Der Lindenbaum, that we ate at. We also have been in Branson which we have done before but never in an RV.

The Texas Hill Country is interesting in the winter but incredible in the spring with the wildflowers and we wish we could stay longer at the Guadalupe River RV Park longer but no river sites are available so we are heading westward on January 18th for Pecos Texas. We are rapidly becoming aware that no matter how much time you allow for an area you could always use more time so we will always have a list of things to do the next time we are in the area.

Till next time,

Bob & Jo

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