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Our Practice Run for Retirement
The journey officially began a little over 1 week ago. We rolled out of the Dallas area a couple of hours late, and a couple hundred dollars poorer, due to air pressure issues that required yet another trip to Lowes. We headed for Lake Livingston - Rainbow's End RV Park. No bucket of gold here, but they do have something we needed...a weigh station.
Tuesday we took a nice long motorcycle ride around the lake, it took about 4 hours to get around. Wednesday morning we had to be all loaded up and over to the weigh station for our appointment at 9:30. Two hours later we were on our way reassured that we are well balanced and pretty close to maxed out on weight (19,500 lbs for the trailer). The weigh master made several comments referring to how our rig was one of the "biggest" and "best balanced" she had ever seen. Naturally Bill was very proud.
That task accomplished we rolled on south to San Jacinto Riverfront RV Park on the east side of Houston. Very nice park! Our site has a private hot tub, a nice view of the river and fishing pier, and is alongside a park area and the clubhouse with infinity pool. All sites are concrete which is also nice. Now my expectations will be high for future sites.
Houston is a huge sprawling city and apparently our park is not on the nice side of town. We have discovered part of seeing new cities means visiting the local Walmart everywhere we go. The store near us is yucky! The longest wait at the pharmacy I have ever experienced. Everywhere we want to go is 20 to 30 miles from where we are parked. We went to a really terrible full price theater one day, and then found a nice dollar theater another day. Of course we had to drive across town to get to it. Just part of the learning curve I suppose.
Tuesday we took a nice long motorcycle ride around the lake, it took about 4 hours to get around. Wednesday morning we had to be all loaded up and over to the weigh station for our appointment at 9:30. Two hours later we were on our way reassured that we are well balanced and pretty close to maxed out on weight (19,500 lbs for the trailer). The weigh master made several comments referring to how our rig was one of the "biggest" and "best balanced" she had ever seen. Naturally Bill was very proud.
That task accomplished we rolled on south to San Jacinto Riverfront RV Park on the east side of Houston. Very nice park! Our site has a private hot tub, a nice view of the river and fishing pier, and is alongside a park area and the clubhouse with infinity pool. All sites are concrete which is also nice. Now my expectations will be high for future sites.
Houston is a huge sprawling city and apparently our park is not on the nice side of town. We have discovered part of seeing new cities means visiting the local Walmart everywhere we go. The store near us is yucky! The longest wait at the pharmacy I have ever experienced. Everywhere we want to go is 20 to 30 miles from where we are parked. We went to a really terrible full price theater one day, and then found a nice dollar theater another day. Of course we had to drive across town to get to it. Just part of the learning curve I suppose.
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Sami It’s amazing to see the ups and downs at each situation looking back, it always kind of works out in the end. I’m glad you guys are having fun!! I’m loving the blog, I hope you keep it up!