Nick, Peggy, Ilene, & Keith in front of Enchanted Rock
Easter Sunday 2024 Ilene and I spent time with my cousins Nick & Peggy Peterson. While we don’t actually celebrate Easter until 5 May this year Nick and Peggy did by attending one of our local Protestant churches. Ilene and I attended our Antiochian Orthodox Church, St. Thomas, in Fredericksburg.
We agreed to meet up afterward and take a hike in nearby Enchanted Rock State Park. It’s crazy. We’ve lived here over five years now and this was our first trip to Enchanted Rock. Of course, part of the reason is that it is a very popular spot year around and you have to get reservations in order to visit so they can control the number of folks and minimize disruption to the flora and fauna. Continue reading Easter Sunday 2024
That’s right! These 60-somethings are expecting a new addition to the family and it’s due in September 2019. On September 16th Ilene and I will be picking up our new Oliver Legacy Elite II Travel Trailer.
While traveling full time over the past two years we’ve kept our eyes open for just the right place for us to eventually settle into. We think we’ve found it with Fredericksburg (FBG), Texas. Continue reading We’re Expecting!
Limestone buildings unique to the Texas Hill Country line Main Street in Fredericksburg and give one the feeling you’ve left the good old US of A and entered a country filled with cowboys and Indians, princes, and barons. This is the Texas of the mid 1800’s before the Civil War and not so soon after Texas won its independence from Mexico. Continue reading Willkommen in Fredericksburg
We were originally scheduled to leave Texan RV Park here in Athens, TX for The Vineyard at Fredericksburg RV Park this morning. Weather, however, can be a bit fickle in this part of the world this time of year and right now we’re still in Athens watching the raindrops fall.
The RVing Lifestyle Can Mean Flexibility
One of the nice things about the RVing Lifestyle, and being retired, is the flexibility to not have take chances when it comes to road conditions. The forecast for our destination is for thunderstorms. Along with thunderstorms come hail, high winds, and the possibility of tornadoes. Continue reading Watching the Raindrops Fall
Imagine our surprise when our friends Hoss and Janet pulled into Texan RV Park the day before the NRVIA Conference! We’d expected them the following week and certainly not staying at Texan RV Park! They showed up just in time for Hoss to help a friend of ours back his fifth wheel into the spot next to us. Seems they’d had the 5’ver for some time but never had to back it into a spot!
We had time to get caught up that day and part of the next day while we prepared for the conference, but once the conference started we were pretty busy and only had time to visit in the late evening. Monday and Tuesday I attended Lippert Component Training learning about levelers, slideouts, awnings and other Lippert systems. Continue reading Hanging Out In Athens, TX
Well we made it to Athens, TX on Monday afternoon where we’ll be for the next two weeks.
Athens is the home of the new National RV Training Academy (NRVTA) and headquarters for the National RV Inspectors Association (NRVIA). This year the NRVIA is having its 5th Annual Conference here at the Texan RV Park.
The President and Director of the NRVIA purchased the Texan RV Park last year with the vision of seeing the park, and the NRVTA, become a hub of RV training for technicians, mobile & RV dealer service technicians, RV inspectors, and consumer training. Continue reading Made It To Athens, TX
Well we thought we were going to winter in Las Vegas and Mesa this year but after heading East to Texas for our National RV Inspectors Association Conference we got to thinking…
We’d already driven from Florida to Vegas then up into Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington this year and worked our way back to see the Reno Air Races and visit the kids. By traveling to Texas then back to Vegas only to turn around in April and travel all the way back to North Carolina for our Workamper job at Moonshine Creek Campground seemed a waste of time and money. Continue reading A Change of Plans for 2018
Fort Stockton was a historic place to stop and we decided to spend a couple of days there exploring the actual US Army fort and the Annie Riggs Memorial Museum in the historic downtown district.
This was the first stop where it was warm enough to wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts and we took full advantage of it by sightseeing and spending precious moments outside.
We stayed at the Fort Stockton RV Park on the East side of town but within short driving distance of the town. As an added bonus, the RV park has a restaurant open for dinner and breakfast each day and the first night we had the opportunity to try it out.
Ilene had a burger and I had the chicken-fried steak (I had to since I was in West Texas) and we weren’t disappointed. The food was tasty, the servers were pleasant and the atmosphere was pure Texas.
The next day we visited the fort and learned this was once headquarters of the 1st and 8th Infantry Regiments and 9th Cavalry Regiment “Buffalo Soldiers”. Yes, the same 9th Cavalry Regiment that fought along side Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in Cuba!
The fort has a small museum as well as some of the original buildings from the 1860’s including an enlisted barracks, kitchen and officer’s quarters.
After our walking tour of the fort we drove downtown and took in the West Texas architecture and stopped by the Annie Riggs Memorial Museum. Annie Riggs ran one of the nicest boarding houses in the region and the museum has many displays and you can wander through the rooms learning about the history of Fort Stockton and the women and men behind its growth.
No stop in Fort Stockton is complete without a visit and snapshots at Paisano Pete. Pete’s the official mascot of Fort Stockton who measures 11 feet high and 22 feet long.
All-in-all, our stay in Fort Stockton was enjoyable and we’d recommend it as a stop for any of our friends and family.
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