Blogs from Texas, United States, North America - page 2

Day 7 - Dinner at La Cocina last night, great Mexican restaurant, great decor, food was good but nothing to write home about (and as I type this I realise that's exactly what I'm doing!), chicken enchilada's & ground beef steak (read rissole) with all the trimmings, but when asked whether we wanted green or red chile, and the answer was none please, the look on our servers face was total shock - no chile - are you crazy? Anyway it was quite nice and another early morning start for a ride down the interstate to Las Cruces, only a few miles from the Mexican border. Fuel up and a drink then off to Alamogordo and up another brilliant mountain range to Cloudcroft for lunch at Dave's Cafe. Great service by a friendly server. Another tip ... read more

One of the most important things we need to do as we become full-time RVers is to establish a home address, which will be our “domicile” for the foreseeable future, and get registered to vote (in the apparently faint hope we’ll have an honest election someday soon). To get all that done, we needed to get to Livingston, Texas, and that’s where we are now. We’ve had our mailing address here for almost a year, and now have Texas plates on our Truck and RV. Next, we need to get our Texas driver licenses, but have to wait until our birth certificates and marriage certificates arrive. (I mistakenly assumed our Washington State enhanced licenses were sufficient to prove our ID, but was mistaken. Oh well.) They should arrive in time for us to get all the ... read more

On this journey I am trying to immerse myself into the feeling of being part of the military family again. I want to hang out with my people, belong to the military village, and to reconnect with those feelings whether it’s the people, the sounds, the sights…..that safe feeling of a deployment, knowing it’s all one team…serving a bigger purpose… Joint Base San Antonio was my first real test of getting back into the swing of hanging around and experiencing the military. Of course, my excitement was short-lived as I pulled up to the main entrance. The security police saw my RV and quickly assessed that my vehicle height might be more than the building overhang (although I knew better), so frantic waving and quick thinking was conducted on their part. I changed lanes and goobered ... read more

It’s been more than a month since we’ve posted any information, and it’s time to catch up at least a little. We are now in Van Horn, Texas and will be leaving in the morning for Sonora, Texas and think we might get to San Antonio next week. We left Yuma the day after Easter. It was time to get moving again, before Yuma gets entirely too hot. We also have to get to Texas so we can get started establishing our domicile for the time we’ll be living full time in our RV. Who knows: we might even decide to settle there. There are many things about Texas to make that idea a good one. We’ll see. Our first stop after Yuma was Picacho, Arizona, which proved to be a delightful place. The park was ... read more

Ok here’s something I forgot about 3 days ago. When I was coming across one of those big mountains on my way to Carlsbad, I kept thinking something’s different. Then I realized that I wasn’t on a desert mountain like the others I had been across. This was a mountain with tall deep green pine trees marching up the slopes. And they were all pines, no spruce or deciduous and it was cool and refreshing like being in northern Ontario. It put me in mind of the Black Forest in Germany where all the evergreens are of such a dark green that they almost look black. I left KOA Carlsbad at 8 a.m. this morning driving past acres of pistachio orchards. Unfortunately it’s too early for them to be flowering because they are stunning pink in ... read more