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.**

Forgot I had a BLOG

 Oh boy!!  I hadn't realized how long it's been since I wrote here until I looked at my camera and realized I hadn't been taking many pictures and if there are no pictures then there are no adventures.  This is definitely NOT true.  We have done something almost everyday and have been just enjoying the moments and not looking at life through a lens!  Calm down now people & fear not........there will be pictures included!!   Mostly we have been just walking about checking out different places and finding some interesting things and laughing daily.  We went to downtown to just walk about and ended up on the Riverwalk.  We have been here before so it was not the plan to walk it again but since it was there and we were there and it was the middle of the day and all the people were at work and it wasn't wall to wall people, we headed down the stairs and walked a few miles.  

It was way more exciting not having to dodge all the people we had to the last time we were here &  

we saw so much more!!  We also took another bad selfie.  We will never perfect this but will post anyhow since you forgot what we look like. Dick found $10 in a park on the walk as well so we had some lottery fun on the way home and a brewery! Beer was great and we will go back.  The Pizza was pretty good as well. 

Dicks sister Barb and her grand daughter Ashlynn came to the zoo with us for a pretty cool adventure!  We got an awesome family 4 pack deal that included tickets to get in, dinner and a giant souvenir zoo cup.  Dick and I were in this picture but I cut us out because we looked really bad!!

I wanted to go at night because they had awesome Christmas displays and lights so we went around 4 and walked around and saw all the animals then walked around some more and saw all the lights.  Zoos are soooooooo fun.  Everyone we have visited has surprise us with something different.  This on has a hippo viewing area. This was most excellent and I could have spent hours watching these fat boys (or girls). They were so graceful in the water doing summersaults and popping up for a bit of air.

We had a great zoo visit took way to many pictures!!  Enjoy!!

*To-morrow I'll reform, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late; -the wise did yesterday.*

Fix it

We have been in San Antonio two weeks and thus far are enjoying all we have been doing.  As much as we enjoy traveling around it is great to be planted in one spot for a time.  There are still adventures and fun to be had.  We get to see all the little things that are missed by the travel through tourist.  Life is pretty stress free.  I didn't even yell much at Dick when he pulled into the parking spot at the grocery and hit the car in front of him.  No damage done and no alarm when off so we ran into the grocery before anyone could confront us.  I also didn't yell when he backed out and hit the cart return thingy with the drivers front quarter panel and most likely dented the truck (I was scared to look).  So yes......stress levels are low.

We have been busy painting, cleaning, organizing, and fixing things at Dicks sister Barb house.  I guess we needed a dose a homeowners life.  Sooooooooo glad we put that behind us for a while, but still love the fix it mode and helping out where needed.

We have been driving around a bunch and realizing that this is a ginormous city.  We also remembered how much we hate traffic and stupid drivers.  Dick says we will never live anywhere that a 5 minute drive turns out to be 1/2 hour.  It really is pretty ridiculous.  We have visited about 6 breweries since we have arrived and 4  disc golf courses.  I don't know if you can tell from this picture but we saw some pretty strange animal tracks at a golf course.  I personally thought it was an animal that would gallop out of the wood and trample me to death but we never saw this creature.  Thanks goodness!!!!

Texas has some pretty weird trees.  Mostly short and pokey. There are not many pines in this area but the short pokey trees have their own beauty.  There was one patch of blue in the sky and it showed up looking pretty cool in one of these pictures.  

Things have been really dry here with little to no rain, so there is lots of dust in this the air when the wind is blowing but the temps here are awesome.   I think the lack of rain keeps the creek and rivers looking a bit clearer and this one that we came upon was beautiful and we should have jumped in but there were fish swimming around in it that looked like piranhas and again I feared for my life. (really we just didn't have our suits with or we would have jumped in). I can say with all honesty that fresh fallen snow is beautiful but the temps that come along with it suck, so you can send me pictures cause I am not living in that crap again.

We have discovered that Texas has an overabundance of deer.  Much different of my complaints of no wild life in Michigan.  They are everywhere & just standing in the road waiting to get run over.  I am sure that one of these days Dick will run into one of them with the truck & put another dent in it.

The weather is getting to almost a perfect 75 with no humidity so I hope to get out for more adventure hikes and small town touristy things.  We have met some pretty amazing people here in Texas thus far and hope to meet more.

*He that spills the Rum loses that only; He that drinks it, often loses both that and himself.*

Las Cruces to San Antonio

We left  Las Cruces and headed toward San Antonio taking our time and stopping a couple places along the way. Remember the sketchy campground we stayed at??  Well we found a sketchier on in Van Horn TX. These people must stay in business because of people like us who care not to read reviews or research. We are ok with sketch!! You meet some pretty interesting people in sketchy places. Probably should be packing a gun but I think I could do some real damage with my Burts Bees. What criminal wouldn't scream like a little girl if bees wax lip balm was thrust in the their eye!  Any how, we drove so close to Mexico that we could have spit on it! Didn't see any wall and I don't know how to spit without it dribbling down my face so I didn't and why would I? I love Mexico??

We stopped before we hit San Antonio and we are sooooooo happy we did.  It was an awesome campground called Cowboys and Angels in Mountain Home, TX.  The property was gated and there were tons of deer and other hoofed animals which I can not identify (not cows) but were totally awesome to watch wandering around the property.  The owners had feeders all over and they have a burger night every Saturday night and opened their little saloon and had a fire and hey ride.  Really a neat quite place.  NOT SKETCHY at all!  

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We also hit up some small town touristy things and a couple breweries (of course).  Our friends in Las Cruces gave us cookies and glasses for going away presents too so we had some fun with those.  We took a walk along the Guadalupe River and saw some funky trees with Dr Seuss balls in them too.

  We made it to our 3 month home in San Antonio and although the campers are parked kind of close it is quite and I don't feel like we will die here.  Death experiences are yet to come.  There was a close call with a prickly cactus today though!!!

We had dinner with Dicks sister Barb and her son Jonathan yesterday when we arrived and look forward to many more visits with them over the next couple of months!!

*Clean your fingers, before you point at my spots.*