Getting There

Sometimes, just getting up and getting someplace is the hardest part.  This has been an unusual year as we haven't traveled as much as we thought we would, and the RV has suffered from it.  We've also learned some valuable lessons and the chief one is to get-away, even if it's only for a very short time.  We got the RV to travel, and it's meant to travel and if it doesn't, then it can get a little rusty sitting on its hiney!  So prep time took a little longer and got us right down to our deadline.  But we made it and all working well.

Then on the road, we had a blowout.  Now, this wasn't a flat, it was a full-blown blowout!  Fortunately, we were just outside Ft. Worth so help wasn't that far away, and Walt being Walt, got out and jacked up the RV (yes he carries heavy-duty jacks) and changed the tire.  There are some pretty miraculous things I can do, but to be honest, when Walt takes on these challenges, I'm frankly amazed.  The guy is a one-man, do-it-yourselfer, tackle-any-project type guy, and yep, we were on I-35W, side-of-the-road, and he fixed it.  Then dropped off at the local tire store and purchased 2 new tires (a new spare and replacement for the old one), and on the road again.

Then get into Port Aransas and it's raining, and not just raining, I mean a good pour.  Setting up in the dark, pouring rain, and not knowing where the dickens we were, was a mess but found the owner and he very kindly helped us out.  Kudos to Port A RV Resort.  Up the next morning, the rain has finally stopped and we straighten up the RV and can do a total hook-up while I run most of our gear from the night before through the dryer.

But we're here!!!
And it's exactly as I had planned.  Without the light, I couldn't really see the view we had and thought  I had picked a spot that backed up to the nature preserve but wasn't sure after the fiasco of the night before.  But the next morning, even though it's still cloudy and wet, brings just what I had planned - a great view of the nature preserve, but even better, when the window is cracked slightly, there's the call of gobs of birds out there.  Trekking the next day to get our supplies (we thought we would get in the RV and travel, then get all our supplies once we were in Port A), the road is filled with wildlife on the side of the road - almost as if it were a bird-infested Yellowstone! 

There are still some rusty spots we have to iron out, but we will get those handled, and then be sitting pretty in our little home-away-from home!