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Traveled to Lockhart State Park for spring break 2012. Stayed 3 nights. It was very quiet as the park only has 20 campsites. It also has a golf course. County prisoners are utilized to keep the grounds tidy. Two or three will ride around in a golf cart with a Park Peace Officer. I watched as an Officer attempted to open a car that had the keys locked in it. The prisoners were sitting in the golf cart waiting. Ironic. A man and his daughter in the next camp site were watching as the Officer struggled to unlock the car with a coat hanger; Daughter: “Daddy, why is that man in a striped suit?” Father: “He is a prisoner. He did something wrong.” Daughter: “What did he do?’ Father: “I don’t know, broke into a car ... read more

Spring Break 2011. Big plans. Taking my mother and two of her friends on a trip. We stopped at San Felipe (or San Phillip as the volunteer called it). I must say, not much to see there. There is a 175th Anniversary Passport that you take to various Hysterical attractions and have it stamped. San Felipe was included in the booklet, but not on the booklet map. Some one went to the trouble of inking “San Felipe de Austin SHS” on page 15 with the map. Drove on to Gonzales to see the “Come And Take It” cannon. Little did I know that I had been driving away from it all day. Seems as if someone from the Houston Museum “Came And Took It” to display in Houston. Now it’s on to San Antonio and the ... read more

Showed up at Mesa Verde on July 3rd. Not a good visit. Dual total battery failures on the RV during the night. That sent me to Cortez on the 4th of July looking for batteries. There is only one place in Cortes to purchase deep cycle batteries on the 4th. Wal-Mart. I was attempting to have a Wal-Mart free vacation. Other than the battery purchase, I did have a Wal-Mart free trip. The lesson here is to load-test the batteries before a long trip. The Junior Ranger Badge was the best thing that happened at Mesa Verde this year. ( Well, they did fix the conflicting signs).... read more

Saturday afternoon I was upstairs attempting to cut down on some clutter. I hadn’t been up there in quite a while. Too busy. Anyway, I found this travel blog from this past summer. And you will never guess where it was. It had slipped between the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe and was resting on the temporal lobe. Imagine that. Just when you thought it was safe to check your email. It was July 20th. We were staying at Kamp Komfort and decided to drive into Monte Vista. Gave us an excuse to eat at Nino’s. Darn good Mexican food. After visiting the few antique shops in town we headed back toward South Fork. Just west of Monte Vista there is a Taxidermy shop. I had my first big rainbow mounted there back in the ... read more