Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 30

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Friday, October 30, 2015
Morning 75 Degrees, Wind SSE 3 & gusting to 5 Mph, Humidity 95%, rain.  
Afternoon 81 Degrees, Wind S 7 & gusting to 10 Mph, Humidity 90%, mostly cloudy.
 

heavy rain in the early morning almost an inch then an overcast day. In the afternoon we went into Pleasanton for her to get “some hair cut” and then groceries. For the first two thirds of our trip the car was hot, air conditioning was not working. I adjusted the temps and even purchased a can of refrigerant to add when I got back to Buster. Stopped at the last traffic light I looked down and the light to indicate the air conditioner compressor is on was not illuminated. I turned it on and cooling started coming from the vents. On our last trip we did not need air conditioning and had turned it off.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 25 - 29

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Sunday, October 25, 2015
Morning 61 Degrees, Wind WNW 7 & gusting to 10 Mph, Humidity 94%, overcast.
Afternoon 76 Degrees, Wind N 7 & gusting to 18 Mph, Humidity 55%, mostly sunny.
 
NASCAR from Talladega, Alabama then NFL NY Giants football

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Morning 57 Degrees, variable & calm, Humidity 96%, mostly sunny.

Afternoon 88 Degrees, Wind NW 2  & gusting to 16 Mph, Humidity 28%, mostly sunny.  

if we do not get a “gate” before Sunday we will got to the Randall Air Force base to see the Thunderbird's air show. 

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Thursday, October 29, 2015

Morning 56 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 96%, overcast.

Afternoon 81 Degrees, Wind SSE 5  & gusting to 9 Mph, Humidity 35%, mostly cloudy.  

I went to the doctor to review my blood work and get a different prescription. That was the only out for today as “Weather” moving in tonight. Sunday will also be “fallback”

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 22 - 24

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Thursday, October 22, 2015
Morning 72 Degrees, Wind SSE 1 & gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 97%, cloudy.
Afternoon 81 Degrees, Wind S 12 & gusting to 28 Mph, Humidity 72%, mostly cloudy.

Lights scattered showers, but the remains of the hurricane are coming to Texas. We hung out inside all day today.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Friday, October 23, 2015

Morning 75 Degrees, Wind S 1 & gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 96%, cloudy rain.

Afternoon 89 Degrees, Wind SE 5 & gusting to 24 Mph, Humidity 55%, partly cloudy then rain (.2 inch).  

Today a drive into San Antonio for a late lunch and a late matinee movie, the afternoon was nice partly sunny making a pleasant drive into the city. We went to see Bridge of spy’s a very good movie with Tom Hanks. But coming out of the movie the rain had arrived and the bad part was our umbrellas were in the car. The afternoon was nice and that deadened my sense of “weather” moving in to the area. We made hast to the car stomping thru the water and rain coming down and got into the car wet. The drive back was not bad as we drove south the rain was less intense. Today the front of the hurricane Patricia with heavy rain tonight.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Saturday, October 24, 2015

Morning 74 Degrees, Wind SSE 4 & gusting to 7 Mph, Humidity 98%, cloudy rain over night (2.4 inches).

Afternoon 77 Degrees, Wind ENE 9 & gusting to 36 Mph, Humidity 85%, rain to overcast.  Wind the aftermath of hurricane Patricia arrived overnight with some clearing in the afternoon. The wind was with us all day. In the afternoon I went into Pleasanton picking up a prescription and milk at the grocery.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 19 - 21

REVISED

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Monday, October 19, 2015
Morning 59 Degrees, Wind W 2 & gusting to 3 mph, Humidity 80%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 87 Degrees, Wind SE 2 & gusting to 8 Mph, Humidity 40%, sunny.
 
Nothing from the pharmacy today, no telephone  call or anything saying the prescription is ready? Tomorrow I will go there and find out what is happening.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Morning 58 Degrees, Wind W variable & calm, Humidity 98%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 87 Degrees, Wind S 5 & gusting to 9 Mph, Humidity 38%, mostly sunny.
 
Well it is that the pharmacy telephone call gets to the doctors office and dies there in the voice mail system. Because they tried to call the doctor again, and it went to voice mail, and the doctor is busy, but not too busy to add me into the morning appointment schedule. Ok I was not prepared for that, probably should have prepared with list of medications I am taking. Ok now got all prescriptions up dated to today after a doctors visit. On the way back to the pharmacy I stooped to give Tan Jan a wash and fill the gasoline tank ($1.829). Back at the pharmacy drop off window, they received the prescriptions, but there is a problem one the quantity was too large, and (one I was waiting to refill) they did not receive THE one. The one I have been trying to get since last Monday. The telephone voice mail hell again, the hell with that as it is only three miles to the doctors office. So it is a quick drive there the waiting room is empty as they are going on lunch. The office going on lunch I get express service and head back to the pharmacy. Understand I do not get to hand carry the prescriptions they are electronically transmitted to the pharmacy.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Morning 72 Degrees, Wind ESE 3 & gusting to 5 Mph, Humidity 94%, overcast.
Afternoon 87 Degrees, Wind S 7 & gusting to 25 Mph, Humidity 61%, mostly cloudy.
Rain showers today and “weather” moving in off the Gulf of Mexico for the weekend.

Vampire, well the unplanned doctors office visit, my doctor wants blood every visit. Not planning the visit I had my breakfast before going to the pharmacy and the doctor wants a fasting blood sample. Did not take long and stopped on the way back to Buster for milk and eggs, for breakfast.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 16 - 18

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Friday, October 16, 2015
Morning 63 Degrees, Wind NW & variable gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 97%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 89 Degrees, Wind ESE 6 & gusting to 12 Mph, Humidity 28%, sunny.
We know we are back in Texas with the wind gusts.  

The motorhome parked next to Buster came in later yesterday afternoon also another one next to that one are traveling together and these are not workers.
Late in the morning I went to the pharmacy (not receiving any telephone call) to check on the last submitted prescription. No luck, maybe Monday. Basically I needed to light a fire under them, I brought this to them on Monday. I also know that the doctor has reduced hours on Friday, maybe in should have went into the pharmacy earlier?

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Saturday, October 17, 2015

Morning 58 Degrees, Wind W & variable 2 Mph, Humidity 98%, partly sunny.

Afternoon 89 Degrees, Wind E 5 & gusting to 22 Mph, Humidity 31%, sunny.  

   

College football, Florida State early Saturday at home against Louisville (new member of the ACC). 

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Sunday, October 18, 2015
Morning 58 Degrees, Wind WSW variable & calm, Humidity 9%, cloudy.
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind S 2 & gusting to 6 Mph, Humidity 5%, sunny.
 
NFL football NASCAR racing from Kansas and football busy day

Well I tracked down the mail I had sent, well maybe I should have done this on Thursday as the USPS site had it delivered then. I sent a text to the owners of the RV park looking for the mail “not with them”. Looking at the picture of the tracking number I “thought the address number was recorded incorrectly, no it was not (I was looking at the last two numbers of the road, not the number on the road) but I looked up the road for that box number and there was no such number. Then by chance I checked the correct box and there it was plain as day, I retrieved my package. The owner has not checked their mail since Wednesday I guess. Mystery resolved

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 12 - 14

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Monday, October 12, 2015
Morning 69 Degrees, Wind SW calm, Humidity 99%, mist.
Afternoon 98 Degrees, Wind WSW 2 & gusting to 9 Mph, Humidity 31%, mostly sunny.

Cleared into a nice day. I went into Pleasanton to transfer some prescriptions and get then refilled they took the information and said come back after two o’clock tomorrow.


Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Morning 76 Degrees, Wind ENE 4 & gusting to 8 Mph, Humidity 92%, overcast.
Afternoon 89 Degrees, Wind  & gusting to  Mph, Humidity 5%, mostly sunny.
 
Big job for the day and only half done, get prescriptions. I was told yesterday come in after two to pick up the four prescriptions I dropped off. As soon as I turned onto the road I got a call from the pharmacy (automated call) one prescriptions was ready. Well I thought that was odd as one was for my wife and three for me and only one ready, but then again maybe that was her call. There was no other call and after arriving at the counter I picked up two one for each of us. So tomorrow I will wait for the call before I go there again. Examining the refilled prescriptions in small print they were filled off site and delivered to the store.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Morning 63 Degrees, Wind variable 1 & gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 42%, partly sunny.

Afternoon 97 Degrees, Wind ESE 8 & gusting to 10 Mph, Humidity 10%, mostly sunny.  

   

Rest day doing nothing important.  Just waiting for the call to come pickup two prescriptions.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Thursday, October 15, 2015

Morning 62 Degrees, Wind  variable & calm, Humidity 99%, Fog, burned off quickly with the sun coming up to partly sunny.

Afternoon 98 Degrees, Wind SW 2 & gusting to 4 Mph, Humidity 25%, mostly sunny.  

   

Big job for the day and only half done, get prescriptions, wait a minute this is a rerun of Tuesday, actually it is worse than that. Going to the pickup window (without getting any telephone call) giving name and birthday, no nothing in the Q. Now this is the person I picked up the two prescriptions from on Tuesday, she had remembered me. Now having to tell her what medications I was looking to get resulted in passing me to the drop off window. Finding out that only two prescriptions were processed. So one was processed today while I waited and one still needed a call to the doctor to authorize a refill. So tomorrow it will be one hundred percent or zero percent.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Oct 10 - 11

Beaumont, Texas - Gulf Coast RV Park - Saturday, October 10, 2015
Morning 68 Degrees, Wind SSE 3 & gusting to 8 Mph, Humidity 92%, mostly sunny. We got going and continued west on interstate ten going ten thru Houston there was one spot there the traffic came to a stop for an accident but Buster was rolling again pretty quick. Buster took a drink of diesel fuel ($2.289) in Brookshire, TX. After getting back on the road our plan was for two hundred nineteen miles for today but further thought I decided to push onto Pleasanton.

Buster parked at Atascosa RV Park

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park
Afternoon 92 Degrees, Wind NW 7 & gusting to 16 Mph, Humidity 45%, mostly sunny.
Two hundred ninety four miles driving Buster today arriving at three-thirty. Traffic was heavy going into and leaving Houston with just one slow spot in town as one lane was closed for construction and an exit ramp also closed, vehicles slowing to use the closed exit. So this is slowing all lanes of traffic. Florida state Seminoles football, but NASCAR rained out in Charlotte, NC tonight.

Pleasanton, Texas - Atascosa RV Park - Sunday, October 11, 2015

Morning 64 Degrees, Wind SW 1 & gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 95%, partly sunny.

Afternoon 94 Degrees, Wind W 4 & gusting to 5 Mph, Humidity 45%, mostly sunny.  

   

NFL Football, NASCAR racing and napping, busy afternoon resting. I did finish painting the board for the air conditioner exhaust hose to duct heat our the window. I used rubberized paint to help with stopping the water getting to the wood. We need that air conditioner today with the ninety degree temperatures still here in south Texas.

Beaumont, Texas - Gulf Coast RV Park - Oct 9

Livingston, Louisiana - Lakeside RV Park  Friday, October 9, 2015
Morning 63 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 99%, mostly cloudy.
The clouds slowly cleared as we traveled west on interstate ten.

Beaumont, Texas - Gulf Coast RV Park
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind N 1 & gusting to 4 Mph, Humidity 55%, mostly sunny.
 
We started later today going on eleven when Buster pulled out and started rolling west. Crossing the Mississippi River today and rolling into Beaumont, Texas. Not as much drama today only traffic stopping for an accident and clearing quickly. Another where a line if cars changed into the right lane to exit on a down slope and a posted fifteen mile an hour speed limit on the exit ramp because there is a sharp one hundred-eighty degree curve. Brought the right lane speed down to five miles per hour and no metal touched.

Buster Parked at Gulf Coast RV Park

Livingston, Louisiana - Lakeside RV Park - Oct 8

Summerdale, Alabama - Escapees Rainbow Plantation - Thursday, October 8, 2015
Morning 61 Degrees, Wind  variable & calm , Humidity 92%, mostly sunny.
Buster rolled out of the sight before ten to connect Tan Jan to the tow bar. Driving on local roads to interstate ten west. I stopped Buster in Gulfport, Mississippi for a drink of diesel fuel before continuing on to.

Lakeside RV Park

Livingston, Louisiana - Lakeside RV Park
Afternoon 87 Degrees, Wind SE 1 & gusting to 9 Mph, Humidity 67%, mostly sunny.
On interstate ten in Mississippi there was a pickup truck pulling a car trailer with another pickup truck trying to pass Buster and Tan Jan. The road is cement and the shoulders on both sides black top (aged) rough from wear and those rumble carved in next to the road. Looking back in the mirror the combination started swinging side to side when the trailer with the truck on it started to cause the pulling truck to swing or the “tail waging the dog.” that “rig” end in the median luckily right side up (it did not roll over). I had moved Buster over to the right then added more speed to stay out of the way. The remainder of the trip was uneventful.

Summerdale, Alabama - Escapees Rainbow Plantation - Oct 7

Tallahassee, Fla - Big Oak RV Park - Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Morning 62 Degrees, Wind  variable & calm, Humidity 97%, cloudy fog.
Today was a late start catching our breath from the early days this week. Buster pulled out of the site just after eleven today (eastern time) headed to get a drink of diesel fuel before heading west on interstate ten.

Summerdale, Alabama - Escapees Rainbow Plantation
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind variable & gusting to 2 Mph, Humidity 79%, mostly sunny.  A nice traveling day with plenty of sunshine driving west on interstate ten.
 

Buster parked Escapees Rainbow Plantation 

Summerdale, Alabama - Escapees Rainbow Plantation
Afternoon 86 Degrees, Wind variable & gusting to 2 Mph, Humidity 79%, mostly sunny.  A nice traveling day with plenty of sunshine driving west on interstate ten.

Buster parked Summerdale, Alabama

Tallahassee, Fla - Big Oak RV Park Oct 6

Hudson, Florida - Suncoast Designers - Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Morning 67 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 95%, cloudy mist in the air.
Zero dark thirty wake up - getup, wow. They were done yesterday and we stayed over night leaving “early this morning. We were up at six and Buster was moving off the site at six-thirty-five to connect Tan Jan to the tow bar. Wow rolling down the road before seven. She was a real trooper, so we could leave the window place before the vehicles closed us in. We did travel slower today and were able to arrive before noon today.

Tallahassee, Fla - Big Oak RV Park
Afternoon 75 Degrees, Wind NNW 1 & gusting to 7 Mph, Humidity 745%, partly sunny.
Most of our route was US 19 north then interstate ten west here in Tallahassee, Fla - Big Oak RV Park. We got Buster set up and headed into the city as we wanted to purchase some Florida State “gear”, then we did a later lunch. Buster was in and out of misty showers just enough water to have the windshield wipers on and off. When we stopped it was dry and stayed that way all night. I had problems with Dish Satellite  television changing the local channels to the Tallahassee area. It seams that spot beam is now only in HD transmission and my “dish box” is only standard definition (SD) receiver. Back in July I attempted to upgrade to the HD but was unable to accomplish that upgrade.

Hudson, Florida - Suncoast Designers - Oct 5,

Hudson, Florida - Suncoast Designers - Monday, October 5, 2015
Morning 67 Degrees, Wind SW 1 & gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 92%, partly cloudy.

While the glass is out they cover the openings with plastic

Six thirty-five there was a knock on the door, they were here to check us and that went quickly. After checking all the overnight arrivals they started the removal for windows. We went to breakfast so they could do their work. We came back late morning (eleven thirty-ish) the window were out and temporary covers in the window openings.

Afternoon 79 Degrees, Wind NNW 3 & gusting to 8 Mph, Humidity 78%, mostly sunny.
Mid afternoon the windows were ready to install, two guys one inside and one outside it went quick, sealed cleaned and water checked for leaks. I will not go into the process here in my blog but again the link; http://rsanityrvtravels.blogspot.com/search?q=Suncoast+Designers).

Busters windows (two positions, driver side and slide out large) were not in “bad” shape as there was no new glass required. In the shop the panels were, disassembled, cleaned, inspected, resealed and assembled.

Water checked

We were all done by three o’clock

Hudson, Florida - Suncoast Designers Oct 4

Clearwater, Florida - Clearwater Travel RV Park - Sunday, October 4, 2015
Morning 68 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 98%, partly cloudy with showers early.
Between showers we were able to get Buster ready for the road. After pulling into the road to connect Tan Jan the showers started again lightly so I finished that quickly. As we were driving out the driveway I felt something wrong but needed to find a place to pullover and check the connections, basically the tow bar. A bout a mile later I was able to pull into a parking lot (not raining) finding one leg of the tow bar not locked in the extended position and corrected that problem. Then merging into US 19 the rain started again and continued all the way with different levels of intensity but stopping as we pulled into the Suncoast Designers (RV glass) to park overnight. Taking our time traveling about an hour for the thirty-two miles. The trip was about an hour and a half with the stops, connecting Tan Jan and rechecking the tow bar. US 19 is six lanes with turning lanes on bothe left and right sides.

Hudson, Florida - Suncoast Designers
Afternoon 75 Degrees, Wind NNW 5 & gusting to 9 Mph, Humidity 80%, mostly cloudy. We continued to have showers until late afternoon.

I had read another blog, turns out it was earlier this year. (May 6, 2015, link - http://rsanityrvtravels.blogspot.com/search?q=Suncoast+Designers). Another happy with the work RV-er, writing anout good worrrrTurning in I was impressed with the layout and facilities. Paved driveway and some parking spots with more parking spots on gravel. Water available and fifty amp electric at each spot.

Buster on the right

Clearwater, Florida - Clearwater Travel RV Park - Oct 1 -3

Tampa Fla - Happy Traveler RV Park - Thursday, October 1, 2015
Morning 72 Degrees, variable calm, Humidity 98%, partly sunny.
Afternoon 90 Degrees, Wind  variable 2 & gusting to 3 Mph, Humidity 75%, partly sunny.

Did very little today.

Tampa Fla - Happy Traveler RV Park - Friday, October 2, 2015
Morning 75 Degrees, Wind  variable calm, Humidity 97%, overcast.
Move day, moving to Clearwater for two days and then to Hudson for work on glass windows for the table area and the drivers side window. These are double pane windows that are fogging between the panes. We were able to get an appointment for Monday for this work at Suncoast Designs in Hudson Fla. I have read in a blog of the work they do. When we left North Carolina we noticed the drivers window in the starting stage of fogging. The window by the table has been that way for a while but were able to live with that as we could just slide the window open to get a clear view of what we were looking at.

Clearwater, Florida - Clearwater Travel RV Park
Afternoon 85 Degrees, Wind WNW 8 & gusting to 10 Mph, Humidity 41%, partly sunny.  Just a short drive today to the other side of Tampa we took it slow packing and reading Buster for the road and left after eleven. Buster went down interstate seventy-five to I 4 west and into interstate two-seventy-five south to state road sixty west here to the park. When we got Tan Jan disconnected and went to the office they were closed for lunch. There was a page in the box that we were assigned to # 89 but after backing in my first thought was to check the antenna to connect to the television satellite and that did not work and was “looking” all over finding the tree was blocking the clear path. After lunch we were able to switch to # 86, plenty of sight line to the satellite.

Clearwater, Florida - Clearwater Travel RV Park - Saturday, October 3, 2015
Morning 73 Degrees, Wind NW 3 & gusting to 6 Mph, Humidity 87%, partly sunny now there were two rain showers overnight (.2 inches).
Afternoon 80 degrees, Wind NW 5 & gusting to 9 Mph, Humidity 65%, partly sunny with some light showers .

Hurricane Joaquin is causing the frequent rain showers but is not impacting us in any other way and is moving north very slow, good for us.

This afternoon we were over to my sister Alice for dinner and brought a cake to celebrate her birthday that is this month.

Tampa Fla - Happy Traveler RV Park - Sept 28 - 30

Tampa Fla - Happy Traveler RV Park - Monday, September 28, 2015
Morning 75 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 99%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 84 Degrees, Wind NE 2 & gusting to 7 Mph, Humidity 97%, mostly cloudy and rain later.

Board de-laminating

I went to Home Depot for a (piece of wood) board mid morning. When I got back to Buster it was not looking like working out side weather but I was able to shape the board to fit the window opening. This is the third board since twenty-twelve, it should last longer as it is solid compared to plywood. This is where we duct the hot air outside from the portable air conditioner. The bottom keeps soaking up the rain water and de-laminating. Well I got it shaped and cut the hole for the hose fitting assembled it put the plastic fitting in the hole. Stopped working and put things away for lunch and the rain started. Still needs more work in the shape and to be sealed with a finish.

New Board

Tampa Fla - Happy Traveler RV Park - Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Morning 75 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 98%, Overcast rain.
Afternoon 90 Degrees, Wind  variable & calm, Humidity 86%, mostly cloudy and rain earlier.

We met with our friends Ray & Cookie for lunch today. After eating we stayed talking and catching up our lives for quite a while. From there we did some shopping for groceries before going back to Buster.

Cookie & Ray

Tampa Fla - Happy Traveler RV Park - Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Morning 73 Degrees, Wind variable & calm, Humidity 99%, clear.

Afternoon 91 Degrees, Wind NNW 2 & gusting to 8 Mph, Humidity 56%, mostly sunny.

Finally a day with sun all day, and that was nice. We took a ride around the area and Brandon, checking the places we used to frequent on a regular day. Stopped for lunch before going to Buster. 

Another month complete, the year is quickly going.