October 31st – Nov 2nd - Mathis Texas

October 31^st – Nov 2nd   - Mathis Texas                                                 Weather –                         

Total Kilometers this trip – 7323.3                                                         Kilometers today -  0

Gosh how time is flying by.  One day seems to go right into the next day.

Happy Birthday Rick, we wish you many more good years.

The weather here is quite different than what we are used to.  It is usually still in the middle to high 20’s when we get up and goes to the middle 30’s during the day, never thought that I would say that I would like the heat, but I could get used to this all year round.

Moon rising in evening

Are we having fun, you bet we are, even with the few problems that we have encountered.

On Halloween, Powell and Char's grandkid made an appearance, Char had decorated the front porch and yesterday Powell and I had carved the pumpkin.

 Char and Cooper

 front of house

 Char and grandchildren

 Brennand and carved pumpkin

 cookies

In the past three days, I have been puttering on the bus.  On Nov. 1^st, we decided to pull the starter, thinking that it was probably the starter solenoid that was weak when it got warm.  It was a bear to loosen the bolts, and even heavier to get down, once we got it down, with the solenoid wire still attached we found that it was loose, it had a #10 wire or so, with a fairly large lug and hole in the lug on a very small stud.  The nut had welded to the stud so it was very difficult to get off.  I decided to get it checked out anyhow, when I was at CC Battery in Corpus, they gave me a cart to get it from the vehicle, only to have the cart tip over going over rough terrain, and it damaged the bell end, so I ended up having to purchase a new starter, putting us $250 poorer. HMMMM.  Now it is a new starter, but am sure it was the loose wire that was causing the problem, actually I am surprised how it even started at all.

While we were in Corpus we went out for lunch as well as toured around a bit.

In addition Vadie is having fun going to many of the different shops, farmers markets and even going to the kids football game – how thrilled she was hehe.

I myself have also been keeping busy with some of Powell’s work, as well as repairing or adding other things to our coach – like a lighted Bluebird door handle.