Thursday Nov 21 we went to El Tejavan, a recommended Mexican restaurant,
for dinner to celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary. We enjoyed our meal, Joan
had a spicy fish meal and John beef enchiladas. Because it had turned very
cold out we hurried back to the trailer to hunker down against the bad weather.
What is with this weather being below 0 in Texas? Our research has shown that
just 100 miles south of here the weather is much warmer, not below freezing. As
we have paid for our site here until Monday we will whine and complain, but stay
until Monday morning.
Saturday picked up a few groceries and on our way out of the grocery the
snow started. We headed back to the trailer to do a great deal of
nothing.
Sunday we awoke to a winter wonderland.
As it was a cold snowy morning it seemed like a good day to catch up on
laundry. By afternoon it was starting to warm up, so we cleared the snow off the
slide outs, packed our stuff back in the truck and took down our steps in
preparation for our departure tomorrow. The evening was spent watching a great
football game (Saskatchewan winning the Grey Cup).
Monday morning after checking road reports and finding that the ‘no travel’
warnings had been lifted, we packed everything up, resolved a slide out problem,
at least temporarily and headed to Discount tires to replace one of the trailer
tires. We had checked with them earlier in the week to confirm that
they had the matching tire. It took them less than 1/2 an hour to change the
tire and we were on our way about 10:45 a.m. The roads where fine. We
stopped in Abernathy, just north of Lubbock at a Conoco station for diesel. It
had one of the slowest pumps we've ever seen, until the operator did something
and came out to get us to stop and restart the nozzle. We then carried on to
Lamesa to stay for the night. The good news about this trip today was that the
snow was disappearing as we got further south. When we arrived at the La Vedera
campground in Lamesa there was no more snow, the water was still turned on in
the campground. But since there was no wi-fi at the park (except in the store),
we couldn't contact the KOA at San Angelo to make a reservation. Since this
had not been an issue to date we were not concerned.
Tuesday we headed for San Angelo. Near Big Springs, we intended to
stop to do a short hike by the lake. However, road construction had made the
exit to difficult to navigate, we carried on out of the valley. On the
plateau, we saw many crews working on the power lines. We soon saw what had
caused the problem.
When we got to the KOA in San Angelo they only had space for 4 nights which we took, using a 10% KOA discount card. Thank you Brian and
Kris.
Wednesday we checked out a H.E.B. grocery store, and good luck, they carry the
wine we prefer. Then we went to San Angelo State Park. They have space for us
after we need to leave the KOA. Their sites are lovely, large, level, water and 30 amp
power, bathrooms have free showers and the one I checked out was very clean.
All this for 20.00 a night. The only downside is no internet, but we can head
into town occasionally for internet access. After our drive through the park,
where we saw a number of deer and some of the prize Texan longhorn cattle herd
that is kept at the park, we headed to Fort Concho Historic Site. We did a self-tour through the numerous buildings at the Fort we watched a video about the
history.
On our way back to the trailer we
stopped at an RV dealers, looking for a small part we need. They didn't have
it, but thankfully the part is not essential to the trailers operation, so we
will wait until we can get to Camping World. We spent the rest of the afternoon
playing Wii and watching the deer in the field next to the KOA.
Thanksgiving morning was spent washing the windows. We are hoping this is
the last time we have to clean them as a result of snow and slushy roads for a
long while. In the afternoon we wandered the historic downtown San Angelo.
We saw all the murals and the mermaid with a San Angelo pearl in her hand. The
Concho river flows through town and we walked along its bank for a short section where we saw a blue heron standing on the dam.
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