Starting For Home

We've spent the past couple of weeks winding down on our workamping in Victoria TX.  It was a struggle at the end since all the winter people were gone.  Even though the park was full every night, it's full of pipeline, chemical plant, and every other kind of oil field workers imaginable.  Those people all work 6 or 7 days a week, 8-12 hours a day, and don't want to talk to us old fogies! 
Our Sunday night dinner/dessert/canasta evenings with Mike and Pam ended up being the highlights of our final month.  We managed to get in one (or part of one) golf game per week.  The Riverside course has three nines, but one of those was always closed so the course was very crowded, and we have no patience for slow golf. Mark's back has been acting up again so once a week was plenty for him.

 
Yesterday we finally left the Lazy Longhorn RV Park and drove 150 miles to Kemah, TX which is very ritzy town on Galveston Bay between Houston and Galveston.  The largest attraction is the Kemah Boardwalk.   This area also has the third largest concentration of pleasure boats in the U.S.  Everywhere you look, there are marinas full of boats - I'm not sure anyone actually uses them - they just own them and pay for marina space. 

Check out all the seagulls following this fishing boat.  Even though the Boardwalk area is right on the Bay, you see no birds until a boat comes into the marina.

Last night we returned to see if there were more people at night, since there were only a few tourists during the day.  Sad to say, it wasn't much better at night.

This ride took you all the way to the top, then immediately dropped at about 50mph.  No, we didn't ride.

Note the sidewalks - no people!

Yes, I was a sucker for yet another crazy photo.

Today we headed down to Galveston to see if much had changed since we hadn't been there in more than a year.  We still saw lots of hurricane damage, but lots of rebuilding too.  We drove along the coast until we couldn't stand the smell any longer.  The beaches were loaded with this disgusting smelly seaweed - we could smell through the closed truck windows.  A few brave people were out on the beach, and even in the water.  The red flags were blowing since the surf was so rough.  We headed over to the Strand area and had lunch at Yaga's before heading back to Kemah. 

After lunch, we walked across the street to the Nestle store.  Mark had this ice cream with hot fudge; I had a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie.

I had to finish my fudge cake that I was taking to the adult "Cork on the Wall" potluck in the park tonight.  The park provided fried chicken.  I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this.  Since no one is in the park, we were the only non-long term people in attendance.  After a couple glasses of wine and dinner, we headed back to walk Butch.

Butch playing with his Santa Bobo.

One of Mark's errant tee shots!