Final Days

We are entering the final days here in San Antonio!!  It has been so much fun visiting with Dicks sister!   We dragged her out to the disc golf course a few time, drank to much beer with her, made her be a tourist in her own town, watched her play soccer a couple time,  ate to much food with her and rearranged her house.  Probably turned her world upside down for the past three months but we wanna believe she loved every minute of it.  I know we did.

We got Covid, lost our taste and smell and almost died!!  Just kidding, we didn't almost die.  Covid was pretty much a non event for us but know that is not the case with many.  Hopefully we won't get it again.  We have no intentions of getting the vaccine when finally becomes available to regular people but you never know.  I wear my non compliant mask and we feel we are a safe as we wanna be.  This is me not giving Davy Crocket the covid!!

As usual we have been out hiking, and doing a little bit of last minute touristy things.  Some sort of relation to Dick came to visit for a couple days and we have been having a blast with the sisters Jess and Jackie.  So glad they choose San Antonio for their little get away.  Fun people and lots of laughs and catching up.  They came from Wisconsin just in time to watch the PACKER playoff game and we walked around the River Walk and drank with them.  They forced us to drink.  Couldn't taste a dam thing but we sure tried!! 

Who knows when we will return to this neck of the wood but it sure has been fun and we got to see lots of family who came this way to visit as well.  I hope we get lucky with family visits where ever we go.  On the 25th we are moving on to our next destination.  Escapees Care Center in Livingston, TX for 2 months.  We are volunteering for all of February and March here and are totally looking forward to this experience.  It is a really unique place for aging RVers to go for rehab/adult day care etc.  Check it out if you want.

www.escapeescare.org

When we leave the CARE Center we will be heading to northern California!!! We need to see giant trees and the Pacific Ocean!!  I know there will be many an adventure once we get there.  Check out the campground if you like.  www.kampklamath.com    

Called out!!!

I was recently called out for being a lazy ass blogger.  Now this unidentified person (lives in Valley Brook subdivision and her initials are M N ) did not actually say that but she may as well have. 

We have kept busy doing the usual....hiking, disc golfing & long walks on the beach.   F&%$ that, the beach is overrated.  Who in there right mind likes to walk on sand. About all I want to do on a beach is build a sand castle and sit my fat ass in the surf and flail around like a beached whale. 

It is so much more peaceful to walk in the woods and watch for wild life and smell the trees, leaves and flowers.  Occasionally there is dog shit left behind by some total schmuck, and I cuss out dogs very loudly!! Every walk/hike has something different.  I broke in my new hiking boots this week as well.  NO this isn't dog shit. If it was I would have thrown out the boots!!!  San Antonio has a large park system  and trails that all  seem to connect!!  A biker, hiker, runner, walkers dream to be sure.  We have been to so many and there are so many more yet to explore!  

This week we are in search of wild boar.  We have seen dead ones, but never live ones.  We head north later this week to check out another area.  We know there are thousands of deer in this area and hopefully there will be some boar to.  I have my trusty hiking stick ready to beat them off if we do find any.  On the way home from one of our hikes we scanned the roadside but didn't see any boar either.  There were sightings but they turned out to be a dead dog, a dead coyote, a bag of leaves, a tire tread and the most promising sighting was a bundled up dead blanket. Not exactly the boar we were hoping for but I guess we would rather see a live one instead of a dead one.

The landscape of the Texas is different from what most of you may know.  There are trees and under brush but you CAN NOT drop your pants and pee in the woods without being seen for miles.  The trees are so skinny that you can not hide behind them either.  You all may remember the old cartoon where the giant pink elephant was trying to hide behind the skinny tree......well that was me and this old cartoon was probably modeled after Texas trees.  Lesson learned.......go to the bathroom before hiking!!

I met this crazy guy in a bar and he bought me a Michilada.  Probably spelled that wrong but who cares about spelling!  It is a beer mixed with tomato juice & rimmed with spicy salty goodness.   Yes we still go out during covid times.  During the day when the crowds are almost non existent and we are trying to stay safe and keeping to the outdoors!  Fear not.  Life is good!  We are heading to visit family in Wisconsin next week so I am sure there will be an adventure to report after that trip.

 

**Work as if you were to live 100 years.  Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.**