April 2009-Chuck Wagon Dinner Show

The super English brothers at the chuck wagon dinner show.

April 2009

A gathering of Corbras at a 50's stlyle dinner at the Brenham Airport. The girls all wore poodle skirts. The dinner had an old jutbox and chorme chairs and tables motif of the 50's.

Happy Easter from Texas

Happy Easter from Texas. Hope you enjoy the flowers.

A few things we skipped in our last update. We met David and Penne Morton. They sat at our table at the 4 o’clock social. Linda recognized then from one of the rallies we attended in Wooster Ohio 2 years previous. It so happens they are going to Alaska this year. So we exchanged emails and phone numbers and hope to meet up on the road. We also met Mark and Nancy Vojtek our adopted kids from Chapter 36. They where working serving dinner at the C.A.R.E Center. They volunteered for a month at C.A.R.E. We also met Lee and Marsha Squires who volunteered when we did. What a small world. Received a few emails asking what C.A.R.E. stands for. It is Continuing Assistance's for Retired Escapees. See at http://www.escapeescare.org/


On the 6th we left Livingston and arrived at Somerville Lake and the Corp of Engineers Yegua Creek RV Park. We got a waterfront site. It was the only non- reserveable site left. It turned out to be a super site. But as usual bad weather follows us. We had 20-30 mph winds The Lake looked like the ocean with white-capped waves. They that night they set a record low of 26. The next day it was 78. Its been 75-85 the passed couple of days.

On Tuesday we toured the Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham. http://www.bluebell.com/ It was a great tour and we did get to sample ice cream at the end. They are the number 3 producer of ice cream in the US. Next we went to the Burton Cotton Gin and Museum, http://www.cottonginmuseum.org/ . It is the oldest operating Gin in America. What a fascinating and educational presentation. The US is number 3 in cotton production and Texas is the number one state for growing cotton. China and India are 1 and 2. So much of the cotton grown here is shipped over seas to make the shirts and jeans we wear. Dosen’t that make you fell all warm and fuzzy about buying imports? The motor was build in PA. Thats a 500 pound bale. See what can be made from that bale.

The Cotton Gin

The Wildflowers are just spectacular. Everywhere you drive in the area they are at their height of bloom. This is the second time we saw the wildflowers of TX and its great.
On Wednesday we went to College Station TX to tour the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ That’s George H.. It is at Texas A&M University.
The campus of TX A&M is over 5000 acres, plus many acres of research outside of town. They have about 48000 students and 2800 faculty members. Its a large college.




George Bushes office at Camp David. The situation room.













Kyle Stadium at Texas A&M

We then went to Independence. http://www.independencetx.com/ This is the original site of Baylor College, now Baylor University in Waco TX. It’s also the site of Sam Houston’s home site. We also toured the Independence Baptist Church, the oldest continuously active Baptist church in TX. There is also a Bethlehem Lutheran Church here.

Original lighting.Columns are ruins of Baylor Female Building.

A couple of neat trees. Click on pictures to enlarge.

Mar/Arp LA/TX

April 4, 2009
Hi Everyone. Just a little update.
After we left Lafayette LA. we headed to Kinder LA. to the Coushetta Casino and the Red Shoe Indian RV Resort. What a great place. Bob did do some fishing here and it was good. They have a small lake. Jim and Linda Sullivan were with us for 5 days. The Casino had a Crawfish Boil on Friday nights. We all learned to eat CRAWFISH. Jim really enjoyed them. The rest of us just thought it was ok and to much work. Of course we all played a few machines. Both of us had our RV site compted, we each got to food vochers and cash when we checked out. We stayed 10 days because they had a special pay for 3 nights and get 2 free. You could us the coupon for to stays, but we were compted for the 10 days.
From there we went to South Toledo Bend State Park on the TX.,LA. border. This again was a nice park. Again Bob tried fishing but it was windy. We both had visits to the ER, no walk in emergy care around that area, had to use the ER Bob's ear was blocked and Linda had a very stiff neck. Both of us are fine now. We checked out a few other RV parks but we weren"t impressed. After 10 days here we headed to Livingston, TX. to the Escapee's home park ( this is where we volunteered 2 years ago). It was great to see the participents again. We ate many meals at the CARE center and played Farkel many nights with them.
They had a huge 3 day garage sale to benefit the Care Center. We voluneered to help, one day to set up and three to work the sale. They had a great turn out. It was also the Health Fair, we had many tests done, including our eyes checked and a mamo for Linda.b They Had a dessert auction of cakes,bcookies etc. bCookies ( 3 doz) went for $ 500. and fudge went for $350.b They made a lot of money for CARE. There is practice here where they all go to the cemetery to clean it up and have a potluck lunch after and just have a good time visiting with each other. At CARE they had a Memory and music night with a potluck dessert. They had candles you could light in memory of someone and a couple from the park played music in between and everyone ate dessert. It was very nice.
By the way we did get rid of our beads, we donated them to CARE. They sold them at the garage sale for $15. a milk crate full.
Tomorrow the 6th we are leaving here and heading deeper into the heart of TX. where we will spend the next 3 weeks before heading north to Alaska. A lot depends on the weather . We are not in a hurry right now to get to South Dakota.
From the dogs: We'll be on the move again. We think we've been here before.
But since we can't read or use a map we're not sure. But there sure are familiar smells. We also had a visit to the vet, the one Lilly visited 2 yrs ago. We had our shots. Lilly said she knew him but you know she is getting old and mixes up things. Blazer "I have to get behind Lilly and give her a goose to get up the steps. She is getting old."
Look for photo's at http://www.freewebs.com/bobandlindasrvlifestyle/ new photo's soon!