I guess we're taking this retirement thing seriously, and o-d'ing on leisure!
First, here's a correction to the very first blog: our very first dinner guest was our good friend, Jo Kennard, who joined us for an afternoon and evening while we were parked at Riverdale Farm Campsite in Clinton, CT. (We still get busy with visiting and miss photo ops, so this is a photo from Christmas at Jo's house!)
Okay, here we go for another installment of fun!
In December we left New Caney, TX, passing this Christmas house
near our rv resort for the last time. Sadly, they never lit it up for us!
We headed to Galveston, which has really made a come back from being devastated by Hurricane Ike in 2008. We stayed a couple of nights at the newly repaired/renovated Dellanera State Park, a beautiful campground smack dab on the ocean.
Galveston hosts "Dickens On the Strand" every December, and it was fun to walk the streets with all sorts of folks dressed up in Dickensian attire, and to enjoy the music and food venues.
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| Holden and Old Saint Nicholas |
Traveling down from Galveston we landed in Port Aransas, on Mustang Island, which is across from Corpus Christi. First time Big Red got to ride on a ferry! We enjoyed the beautiful campground and got to see whooping cranes from afar, but we stayed bundled up, as the weather was pretty chilly.
Next stop San Antonio, and the Riverwalk all decorated for the holidays - what a wonderland!
After San Antonio we headed to Austin and the Salt Lick Barbecue. We had plans to drive back over to Houston and leave Big Red for service during the time we'd be in CT visiting with the family for Christmas, but the morning of our departure from Austin the slides wouldn't go in (no power at all!) and one of the leveler jacks got stuck again. So, we called an RV service place in nearby Buda, TX, lined them up to pick up the rig, and drove off leaving Big Red behind!
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