Del Rio Texas

Well, it is almost the end of Jan. and I've been slow getting back to this.  Cindy, sure glad to see all that snow at your house.  We had a cool day here yesterday, but today is nice. 68 degrees and all sunshine.  That is why we are here. 

This past week we visited Laughlin Air Force Base for a tour.  Very interesting. They train new pilots and bomb sniffing dogs.  We had a great demo of the dogs being trained, you would definitely not want to have this dog attack you, and a trip into the simulator for training pilots to deal with G- Forces.  Also had a great steak and baked potato lunch at the officers club. They

I'm new at adding pictures so bare with me. sometimes they are not where I wanted them. 

We also in the same week visited a movie location.  They make westerns here at Alamo Village.  That was an interesting place.  Lots of stuff.   We had lunch in their cantina and you can see Virgil at the bar.  We took two ladies that are here for a month also with us. Their names are Elaine and Anne.  They are very entertaining.  They came to Del Rio to go across the border to have dental work done.  Many Americans do this.  It is way cheaper than in the states.

Virgil is outside waxing on the trailer.  That is his job.  As you can see I'm doing mine. Computer work! 

Our campground is nice. It is new and the owner is a nice young man.  He was a border patrol guard for 21 years. Grew up on a family ranch and did cowboying as he calls it.  Put his all into building this campground.  Sure hope he makes it.  Him and his wife are really working at it.  So far a great job.  Got us to stay a month!!!

Well, tonight we are going with a group for steak night at the local Cantina.  As you can see STEAK is a staple in Texas.  It is a small place but we told it is good.

Saturday we are going to cross the border for lunch in Mexico with Elaine and Anne.  Hope our birth certificates will get us back across.  Otherwise someone will have to bail us out!!!

More to follow at a later time.

 Well, it is now Jan. 6 and we are in Victoria TX.  We left Cindy's on the 29th of Dec after having Christmas with the family.  Great highways all the way down. We traveled the Natchez Trace from Nashville TN to Natchez MS, 444 miles of parkway. NO TRUCKS.  We stayed with friends in Orange TX for two nights.  It was a nice visit with a couple, Bill and Tish Palmer, that we worked with in MT last summer.  They actually spend their winters parked at a friends house.  We enjoyed our visit. Had great BBQ and seafood. Larry and Phyllis, the Palmers friends. took us all for cake and ice cream to the extended family's house.  Just like home, Wild!!  Phyllis and Tish are hooked on the WII playing Shrek.  We left their place on Sun. morning so we could get thru Houston when the traffic was not too bad. That place is a zoo to cross.  It was 77 degrees when we left and going west on I-10 the temp dropped to 43 degrees.  So south we went!  Now it is getting really nice. hi 60's today and mid to high 70's the rest of the week.  We are staying for a week here. Tomorrow we'll take a ride down to the gulf and perhaps have seafood for lunch. We are only 25 miles from the beach.  We'll also see what if any hurricane damage is still there.  They have a big zoo here we'll also visit.  There is an old town a few miles south of here that has shops and restaurants and old buildings to visit.  Well, Cindy,  this will have to do. If dad shares the computer tonight I'll download some pictures. Love to all