June 14-19 Lake Waco Trip

We met Greg and Pam Sunday morning about 9:30 to head out to Airport Park on Lake Waco.  There was no reason to leave any earlier as check-in time was 3:00 pm. The park is usually full on Friday and Saturday nights and some folks wait till the 2:00 checkout time to leave. We stopped in Madisonville at Buckee"s for Susan and Pam, decided to gas up while we were there and it was crazy. I don"t usually stop there but I had a weak moment. Probably won"t happen again. We went down the road a little ways and ate lunch at Woodys Smokehouse in Centerville. They have a big parking area in back for truck and trailers.  We arrived at the park about 2:30 and checked in. We got our trailers set up and then just chilled outside the rest of the evening, My spot was very shaded and with the breeze from the water it was very nice. Greg cooked fajitas for supper.  Monday morning I got up early as usual and sat out drinking my coffee watching the sub rise.  Greg went for a run early and Pam took her dog Scout for a long walk.  Maggie doesn"t take long walks anymore in her old age.  I cooked omelets for breakfast for Susan and I.  Greg cooked breakfast for them as he eats healthy.  Later that morning we went to Wally World to pick up a few items we needed.  We floated in the lake for several hours during the day. The water was great.  We just relaxed around camp again all evening. I cooked pork chops and asperagus for supper. It was a really good day.  Tuesday morning Greg , Pam , Scout, and I took a nice walk around the park, it was such a nice morning. After breakfast Susan and Pam went to some quilt shops and Greg and I just spent the day in camp reading and piddling. Later we all spent a couple of hrs in the lake just floating. Greg cooked salmon and green beans for supper. We had just another nice evening chilling. Wednesday was another nice day. The wind was really blowing today so everything needed to be tied down. We had never been to Lake Whitney so we decided to drive there and look at the State Park.  Its a pretty lake but we were  not impressed with the lakeside camping. They did have some nice wooded campsites off the lake. We stopped in the little town of Whitney and got a treat at the yogurt shop. After that we drove thru Lofers Bend COE and it is a really nice park. We found several sites with good shade and nice lakeview that we would stay at. When we got back we just chilled the rest of the day. I grilled chicken and squash for supper, another great evening.  Thursday was our last full day here in Lake Waco. The wind continued to blow with white caps on the lake. Pam and Susan went shopping and Greg an I stayed home. We just relaxed and read. That evening we floated in the lake for awhile.  Greg cooked shrimp and vegetables for supper. We had another very nice evening.  Wed have had such nice weather this week, if would stay this way I could stay here for awhile. As long as you can get a shady spot you can stay outside all day and its nice. Friday morning we packed up and headed home. It was windy all the way home but the trailer pulled fine, We stopped for fuel and lunch just outside Navasota.  We got home around 3:00 pm.   It was a good short trip to check out the trailer. We only hooked up to electricity. Ran off our fresh water tank and didnt have to refill or dump our tanks till we left. Everything worked and found no problems. 

Ready to Roll

Nice to have the truck bed back to haul all my stuff

Susan is ready

Our Site

Our Shady Spot

Pam Susan Greg

Maggie taking her short stroll

Made an outdoor kitchen out of the back trailer rack

View from my recliner

Looking down the camp road

Susan in her sewing area

Stopped for some yogurt

Our last stop on the way home.

June 6-12 Picked Up our New Trailer

We picked up our new trailer Tuesday. The folks at Fun Town in Conroe did a really good job of walking us thru everything and we checked all the systems out before we left. They installed the stabilizer hitch on the truck and trailer.  It pulled fine on the way home. We didn't get home untill about 5:30 that evening. We were tired so I just left trailer hooked up overnight.  Wednesday morning I set it up beside the old Cardinal to start transferring items. Since I only have one rv plug i put the generator on our new trailer to run AC.  I"m keeping the Cardinal for my deer lease trailer so we only had to move the things we needed.  Its a little thing but having two doors make it much easier to load items.  We don"t have the storage we had before but it seems to have enough.  We leave Sunday for Lake Waco. That will be a nice test run.  The trailer is set up for cable and air tv. I will have to install a port for satellite tv as it will not work with existing cable because of the splitters and amplifier.  You would think that all trailers now would be satellite ready. So far no other surprises.

Made it home

Time to transfer items to new trailer

Front Kitchen

Living Room

Stocking the kitchen

Living room ready

Bedroom ready

May 24- June 6 Its getting Better for Us

We have a lull before our next trip.  We continue to do projects around the house and Susan has also been teaching some sewing classes at a quilt shop. I checked my deer cam in the pasture , not as many deer coming now but the does that are coming all have little ones with them. I did go to the deer lease one day with Kevin. We moved our old trailers to the new camp area. Our plans are to tear them down and build little cabins on the frame. We also moved one deer stand, it is easy when you have forks on your bucket. We would have done more but the tractor developed a hydraulic leak. When I got home I was able to tighten it up a little and stopped the leak. Sometime in the near future I need to change hydraulic filter and fluid.  I put the brush hog on and mowed all the pasture in between rainstorms. We had one really intense storm with 2.5 inches in 20 minutes with tornado warnings.  While it was was wet I made about 10 lbs of deer sausage.  I also bought a new generator for the house since hurricane season is close. It will run my Rv and the house freezers and refrigerator.  It also has a 220 outlet so I can run my water well, you just can"t do 110v and 220V at the same time.  Its too heavy for me to use when traveling so I will need to get something smaller for boondocking. I finally decided to clean the roof on the RV. I put my pressure washers and hose in front end loader and lifted it as high as it goes. I climbed the ladder on roof and was able to reach hose and to work I went. It needed it bad and I found a few places that I need to patch.  I"m getting old and may have to hire this out in the future but not yet. That evening we were talking about downsizing again so I got on the internet and went shopping,  I found 4 trailers I liked and wanted to go look at.  On Saturday we went to Fun Town RV in Conroe as they had 3 of the ones I liked in inventory.  We ruled one of the three out pretty quick after walking thru them.  Our salesman said he had another trailer similar to what we were looking for. It was a front V shaped trailer. We had never looked at them before and we really like it. I wanted to downsize to a bumper pull for several reasons. We both no longer wanted stairs from living room to bathroom and to bedroom.  I wanted to reduce the weight and height I pulled, also I wanted the bed of my truck back (no fifth wheel hitch when traveling). We need a nice open floor plan so Susan could create her sewing area.  Its always a compromise when trying to get what you want with two folks. We went back and forth over two good floor plans and Susan finally picked the V nose.  All our boxes were checked , bumper pull (no inside stairs), my dry weight went from 11,500 lbs to 7100 lbs.  My height went from 12 ft 7 in to 11 fr 1 in.  Susan has a booth dinette to set up her sewing area and will be out of the way.  Our length is 34 ft so its actually a foot longer than our fifth wheel. While I will miss the pulling ease of the Fifth wheel we don"t travel near the hours in a day anymore so the other benefits greatly outweigh that.  Anyway we pick it up on Tuesday and leave Sunday for Lake Waco. That should be a nice little trip to find the bugs . We actually have several short trips this summer before taking a month long trip in September.

This guy crossed 563 in front of me.