Thursday, September 16, 2010
Port Aransas, TX - Feb 3
Our exciting events seem to be mainly friend-related. Sandy & Doug Cameron, Escapee friends who just started full-timing in 12/00, stopped by for a visit early in January. It was fun to meet them after emailing for so many months. Fred & Linda, our earliest Escapee friends, whom we met in person for the first time last February, came & boondocked on the beach for 12 days. We had a great time visiting with them & seeing some local sights. We spent a day with them at the Texas State Aquarium, especially enjoying the new Seahorse exhibit (did you know there were Sea Dragons? Fascinating creatures!). Another Escapee couple, friends of our Boulder friend Jan Redding, whom we met the May before we started out ourselves, is staying about 30 miles away in Rockport for several weeks. We have been visiting with them about once a week, & several get-togethers are planned for when Jan visits us here in Port Aransas next weekend.By the way, even though the Escapee club is based in Texas, they had nothing to do with sending those 7 escapees to Colorado recently! It sure was strange to see all those headlines about the "escapees" in the newspaper. They were in an RV, too. Wonder if it had Escapee stickers
on it!
This weekend there is a library book sale & a sand "snowman" building contest on the beach for our entertainment. We also plan a visit to Aransas Wildlife Refuge to look for the Whooping Cranes.
As we near the end of our first year on the road, we want to comment a little on this lifestyle. It is PERFECT for us! The only down side is being parted from friends, then making new friends & being parted from them. But the leisurely-paced travel fits us well. Neither of us was very interested in all the aspects of home ownership, so we don't miss having a house at all. About all we miss of that is a room full of foster kittens from time to time! It's so much easier to clean & maintain an RV! Traveling yet still having our cozy home with our cats each night is wonderful. We never run out of things to see & places we want to go. We meet up with people who have quit traveling because they have "seen it all". The more we are out, the more we realize that we will never see it all. This beautiful country has wonders upon wonders to explore. We may stop traveling some day, but it won't be because there's nothing new to see!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 8:53 PM 
