Road Trip!

Monday was Valentine's Day and the workkampers served breakfast to everyone who signed up.  French toast, Belgium waffles, sausage, fruit, OJ, milk, mimosas and Chocolate Wine were served.  Since we weren't working Monday, we had minimal duties (I served drinks and even got a couple of glasses of the ChocoVine). 

Tuesday we golfed with Norm and Ed at the Colony Creek Country Club because it's only $22 on Tuesdays.  Norm is a great golfer, who shoots about ten over his age (he's in his early 70s).  This is the first time I've golf with either of these guys, but it was very enjoyable.  Ed golfs like the guys back home - always harrassing and joking.

Early Thursday morning we decided to get out of the park.  Even though we've been here since early October, except for the drive back home for Christmas, we really haven't been anywhere.  Too much park time was driving us crazy and everyone was getting on our nerves, so we threw Butch into the truck and off we went. 

Butch didn't know what to do while we were on the ferry.  He barked a whole bunch at a grackle that was sitting on the tool box in the bed of the truck.

Once we got out on the island we headed to the beach.  Butch loved running in the sand, but didn't like the water.  I think it was because there were pretty high waves. 

We got back to the park in time to take a nap before going out for the evening.  Mike and Pam had gotten tickets to the Concert Band performance by the United States Air Force Band of the West.  We got there early to get a good seat.  If you ever have a chance to go see a performance by any military band, don't miss out.  These performances are always free, and very entertaining. 

This was a clarinet duet that was beautiful.  I told Mark that that could have been me up on that stage, if only I had stuck it out a whole lot longer on my clarinet. 

Today we again left the park early with Butch and headed north to New Braunfels, which is just north of San Antonio.  Our new GPS got us there in two hours with no problems.  Unfortunately, the Camping World didn't have what we were interested in seeing and we left without buying a single thing!   Even though we had no agenda today, we put about 320 miles on the truck.  The diesel is not getting any cheaper.  We filled up this morning at $3.29 a gallon, but saw it as high as $3.54 cash only, near Beeville this afternoon. 

We see a lot of this in Texas.  People driving on the shoulder.  This guy was loaded down with eggs and drove on the shoulder for about a half mile.