USS Lexington at Corpus Christy, TX

We took another road trip today. This time we drove to Corpus Christi to tour the USS Lexington. Afterwards we visited Corpus Christi Naval Air Station where I spent time in training back in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Then a trip out on Mustang Island coming back across on the ferry.

 

 

 

Matagorda Bay

Nancy and I took off on a drive today having lunch at the Blessing Hotel Cafe in Blessing, TX finely ending up on the the beach in Matagorda.

Palacios, TX

We left Del Rio Tuesday morning around 8:30 heading to Palacios, TX where we are staying at Serendipity Bay Resort. It's been several years since I've been to Palacios. Serendipity Bay Resort is a nice little RV park overlooking the bay and marina. Barb and I first found this place in 2007 and then we spend a couple of winters here in 2009 and 2009/2010. Nancy and I will be here until February 13th then we're heading to Galveston, TX for a week.

When we first came here we had our StarBand satellite internet system that worked great at the time. The winter of 2009/2010 we had changed to Verizon Wireless for internet. After Barb and I stopped traveling full-time we discontinued our Verizon account. When Nancy and I started our trip I looked for RV parks to stay at that had Wi-Fi. This time coming back to Palacios the Wi-Fi system here at the park didn't work very well so I went to Verizon Wireless in Victoria and purchased a new Jetpack 4G LTE 6022L MiFi system that works great. Now no more having to stay only at RV parks that have a Wi-Fi system.

New Furnace

We've been having problems with our furnace ever since we started this trip. Some times it work work all day and night but many times it would just blow cold air. So after getting into Del Rio I called a mobile RV technician to check it out. He thought it was the circuit board in the furnace that was starting to go bad but he would have to pull it out and order parts for it. Since the furnace was 18 years old I went ahead and told him to order and install a new furnace. Last night he installed the new furnace and replaced the switch on the water heater so it would heat on AC. The furnace and the water heater now works great. Price to install the new furnace, replace the water heater switch and to replace a bad Kool-O-Matic exhaust fan motor that I will install was $1525.43.

Ciudad Acuña, Mexico

Nancy and I walked to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico yesterday. It was a good mile across the International Bridge, probably a good mile walking around town not buying anything and the a mile back across the bridge. I've walked across here a few times before but I was a lot younger then. We're having problems with the furnace in the motorhome so I'm having a new one installed while here in Del Rio. The furnace is 18 years old so it's due to start going bad.

Del Rio, TX

We made it to Del Rio, TX around 10:00 O'clock this morning, topped off the propane tank and got checked into the Broke Mill RV Park.

Langtry, TX

We left Presidio, TX yesterday at 11:30AM heading toward Del Rio, TX stopping for the night in Langtry, TX, home of Judge Roy Bean. This morning Nancy and I visited Judge Roy Bean's "Jersey Lilly" saloon where he held court and his home the "Opera House & Town Hall" in Langtry, TX before getting on the road. We'll continue on to Del Rio later this morning.