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Llano Grande Events – Mercedes Texas

In this blog, I’ll review some of the larger events held here at the RV park/resort since we arrived in mid-December. It has been a busy, but very relaxing time since we arrived – almost two months ago!

I’m not sure what has happened to time since I retired. It has accelerated like a 900 HP Ferrari! I retired just over a year and eight months ago. It seems like yesterday, although we have seen and done many things in this time. Maybe I need to go back to work again to slow things back done. No, scratch that idea, the workplace frowns on our 4pm happy hours.

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Rio Grande Valley Texas – Quilt Show & Some Thoughts

As I write this, I’m watching the morning news. The cold weather Up North and the federal budget are a couple of the main stories. The temperatures in Chicago got to minus 22 degrees, but not quite a record cold. Wow! John Steinbeck was quoted as saying “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” Now that I am wearing shorts and flip flops and sitting on the warm southern US border, I can actually see the wisdom in that!

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Port Aransas Texas – Beach Week

Sometimes it is just a beach week. Sometimes it is more. Just a few miles south of the city of Corpus Christi lies a long narrow barrier island that protects the mainland from storms and includes some beautiful, wide beaches. We selected a great park on Mustang Island that was just off the beach. A couple of minutes walk over the sand dunes via the boardwalk and we were at the Gulf of Mexico.

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San Antonio Texas

san antonio riverwalk

San Antonio is really an amazing city.  The highlight is the 15 mile long scenic riverwalk that winds through approximately 5 miles of the downtown area.  It also has a rich colonial heritage that includes the Alamo and other missions.  Our weeklong stay in this beautiful city has me thinking that this could very well be a great option for the location of our future retirement home.  

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A Dallas Texas Thanksgiving

Ft Worth Stock Yards

We just finished a wonderful Thanksgiving week with family in the Dallas Texas area.  We finally make it to Texas after a long driving year from Florida all the way up to Maine and then back to the southwest.  Texas will be our winter home for the next four months.  Four locations for about a week each and then down near the Mexico border for three months at one place.  That will be our longest stay in one place since going full-time RVing! Continue reading “A Dallas Texas Thanksgiving”