Austin, TX - Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park

Monday, May 7, 2012
Austin, TX - Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park 68 degrees and partly sunny to 90 degrees and mostly sunny. In the evening it clouded up with thunder and lightening showers. Carole and Jackie had a big day visiting and getting information on the area for schools and where they want to look for housing.

Avery

Traffic is heavy and back ups on the interstate happen all the time. They are concerned for Avery to get him into the right school so where they select housing is important.

While they were checking on schools and neighborhoods we took Avery downtown to a water park where he could run thru water fountains.

Carile and Avery

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 68 degrees and sunny to 97 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee and water committee meeting this morning. Then it is starting the braking camp as Buster is on the road tomorrow. We are seventy seven days here when we pull out tomorrow.

We attended happy hour and at the close the song Happy Trails was sung as we gave our travel plans with those assembled. Mexican train after dinner.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and sunny. Buster is on the road today.

We departed the Ranch before 9:30 AM, good for us leaving that early as we did more yesterday in preparing to leave. Our travel today is only on US 285, Buster traveled easily (no traffic to speak of) down the one hundred sixty four miles to Fort Stockton, TX. Stopped to bet Buster a drink of diesel fuel at $4.009 per gallon.



Fort Stockton, TX 97 degrees and sunny. Wind came up late afternoon into the evening. We changed to central time coming into Texas and it has been since last August that we were in central time. 

Buster ready to depart The Ranch

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Sunday, May 6, 2012
Austin, TX - Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park 68 degrees and rain to 93 degrees and sunny. The morning cleared off after nine o’clock and turned into a nice day, hot and some humidity. The rain started as thunder and lightening at one in the morning and there was seven tenths of an inch measured. More rain then Bonnie and I have had in months.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Entrance

We visited the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center west of Austin this afternoon. Lady Bird Johnson, our former first lady, and actress Helen Hayes founded an organization in 1982 to protect and preserve North America's native plants and natural landscapes. First as the National Wildflower Research Center and later as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, this special place exists to introduce people to the beauty and diversity of wildflowers and other native plants.

Prickly Pear Cactus in bloom

tin, TX - Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park

Friday, May 4, 2012
Junction, TX 69 degrees and partly sunny. We started later today as the drive is only one hundred thirty five miles. Rolling hills or Texas hill country is the drive today with only eleven miles on the interstate ten with most of the driving on US 290 thru Fredericksburg, TX.

Austin, TX - Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park 93 degrees and partly sunny. Just off I 35 but we do not hear but a small amount of the traffic noise. A nice clean up to date gated park. Getting set up for a weeks stay, actually nine days.

Saturday, May 5, 2012
Austin, TX - Austin Lone Star Carefree RV Park 73 degrees and partly sunny to 93 degrees.

We need to replace our telephones last change was February 2009. I have been thinking of this for a while as I have been droping calls because the battery will not support the electric draw when talking more than a few minutes. The area of New Mexico we are in is not Verizon coverage area so this is an opportunity to be in the Verizon coverage area. Today I went to a Verizon store a short way down interstate thirty-five from the campground and purchased Motorola Droid Razor’s for Bonnie and I we move to the twenty-first century telephones. Carole Jackie and Avery are flying in late today and will see them Monday as they have local friends to meet with.

Fort Stockton, TX

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Fort Stockton, TX - Parkview RV Park, 71 degrees and sunny going cloudy traveling down the road. Actually that was the good news as Buster is traveling east southeast puts the sun into the big windshields creating heat so the cloudy cut the sun back and it was a good driving day. We started before ten this morning headed east on interstate ten, two hundred miles. Up to 93 degrees all day. Fort Stockton, TX is the junction of two main roads of our trip US 285 and interstate ten.

Buster and Silver Sally parked in Junction, TX

Junction, TX - Segovia River RV Park a hot dry 93 degrees and partly cloudy there is nothing here, Buster is ten miles east of Junction and there is only 30 amp electric. That means we can run only one air conditioner. One will not keep up with the heat, no shade and just soaking up the sun. I turned on the generator and ran the generator and two air conditioners for a few hours thus cooling Buster. There was one other rig here.

Fort Stockton, TX

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 68 degrees and sunny to 97 degrees and sunny.

Mens coffee and water committee meeting this morning. Then it is starting the braking camp as Buster is on the road tomorrow. We are seventy seven days here when we pull out tomorrow.

We attended happy hour and at the close the song Happy Trails was sung as we gave our travel plans with those assembled. Mexican train after dinner.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 59 degrees and sunny. Buster is on the road today.

Buster ready to depart The Ranch

Fort Stockton, TX 97 degrees and sunny. Wind came up late afternoon into the evening. We changed to central time coming into Texas and it has been since last August that we were in central time. In the above picture you can notice the antenna going to the travel position 

The Ranch Lakewood, NM

Sunday, April 29, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 62 degrees and sunny to 94 degrees and sunny.

Winds coming from the north this morning (Buster’s front is north) the awnings stayed out as the winds did settle down after a while. Happy hour at four o’clock and Mexican Train after dinner tonight. Tonight the train stopped while we attended the birthday and anniversary party celebrating Bonnie’s birthday and continued to the end, girls win, Bonnie and Doris.

　

Monday, April 30, 2012
The Ranch, Lakewood, New Mexico 55 degrees and sunny to 93 degrees and sunny. We went into Carlsbad, NM for lunch Walmart and Albertsons in preparation for our trip starting on Wednesday. Happy hour at four o’clock and Mexican Train after dinner tonight.