Y'all, I could get used of this whole no-client-facing-work-on-Fridays and getting to work from the camper. I'm serious when I say I'd love to go full time RVing someday... but RDB reminds me that I'd miss my normal office after a while, and he's right. However, when your "remote" office has views like this....
....it's easy to see how you can fall in love with the idea of being mobile!
We drove up to Martin Dies Jr State Park Thursday evening after work, taking our time to back into a very skinny spot. As always, safety over speed - it may have taken RDB and me 30 minutes to get parked where we wanted, but it's better to be slow and steady and get our rig exactly where we want it than to try and race thru set up and damage something. Or even hurt someone.
Notice something new? RDB had asked me to find a way to get a flag holder of some kind for the camper, and thanks to the ingenuity of one of the Facebook groups, I order a few items off Amazon and we now have a set of removable flag holders for the nose of the camper. I did a quick write up of that project here.
Diesel dog came with us on this trip (we kenneled him last time, as it's easier to figure out a new camper without having the added adventures of a dog in tow.) I think most of the pictures on my camera roll are of him this trip!
Taking a nap (the one thing I keep saying I'm going to do, but never get around to!)
Once again, that dog is the king of this camper - spoiled rotten with new bedding and toys (which he took no time in pulling all the fluffing out of!)
RDB and I enjoyed a couple meals out this weekend - one at Martin's Mexican Restaurant in Jasper and another at Tammy's Country Kitchen in Woodville. Both were tasty and added to the charm of our small town adventures. (Remember, you can click the links above to see our Yelp reviews.) And if you're in Jasper, be sure to drop in to Martins for the Dinner Avocados - those were incredible! If they had been open for dinner on Sunday, we'd have gone back over for another round!
Saturday we rode over to Woodville to do a little exploring; I was hoping for a main street with a few antique shops to go browse around in, but no luck. We walked around the town square for a bit and enjoyed the beautiful weather. It's wonderful to be outside now that the fall season has started (mind you, it's still in the mid 80*s, but we'll take that over 100*+ any day!).
I pulled up our Geocaching app to see if there were caches any nearby - one was within walking distance from the square and other was a bit of a drive. We found a few, and didn't find a few others. (LINK) I enjoy geocaching since it not only encourages you to get outside, but also takes you to unique and neat little parts of town that you may not have discovered on your own.
The Woodville Magnolia Cemetery was one of those neat finds, with graves that went back before the Civil War. RDB and I had a conversation about a grave in a family plot which had the birth dates inscribed, but no death dates (and it was obviously past the time of a nature lifetime for this person). There were other family plots where it seemed someone had "bought in" to that section for a single person not related. So many lives, so many stories, buried there in the dirt amongst the crepe myrtles.
Saturday night was the 11th Annual Observe the Moon night. I was seriously impressed with the pictures we were able to get with my iPhone attached to the telescope.
And without realizing it, we just happened to put in a movie that also had a moon theme (Despicable Me - the one where Gru tries to steal the moon!)
Sunday morning brought the joy of sleeping in. Since we've started booking thru Monday morning, knowing full well that we'll be out Sunday afternoon, we don't to have to rush to get out of the site by noon! I made a quick jaunt over to the WalMart in Jasper to fill up the truck and grab a few items to make one of our favorite breakfasts: veggies and jalapeno cheddar sausage, with strawberries and cream for dessert. We tried to watch the Steelers vs Texans game but the reception in the camper, even with the 360* satellite antenna, wasn't all that great. The score is 21-17 Texans as we break for half time. (And we're 3-0 after defeating the Texans 28-21!)
This weekend we were at Martin Dies Jr State Park, Walnut Ridge Unit, site #507. As I mentioned, it's a bit of a challenge to get into (beware the really big tree!) but it was relatively level front to back and side to side. We have our eyes on site #503 in this loop - though the parking pad is a bit short there's an "extra" pad next to the site where you could put your truck - and this one would have great water views (it's where we took the picture below). No comments on the bathhouse here, since we never used it. Lots of wildlife (we saw deer, bunnies, armadillos, opossums, spiders, mosquitos....)
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