Sunday 2 December 2012

November 29 & 30th, Dec 1st - Mathis to Boerne, then onto Lampasas Tx


November 29 & 30th, Dec 1st    - Mathis to Boerne, then onto Lampasas Tx                                             Weather – Mixed bag, yet the temperature remains above 18 C with highs of 27 C
Total Kilometers this trip -  9027.0            

November 29th – today Vadie continued with a general cleanup of the coach, as well as doing the laundry.  I also helped where I could and got the coach ready for travel the next day.  In the afternoon, I washed both coaches, the weather was perfect, overcast yet still warm.  Powell was going to help but he had to take care of things for the farm, always something happening.  
 Our coach in sunset
 sister coaches, both look good when washed

In the evening we played cards as we have since we arrived, and tonight was the men’s night to beat the ladies, ahhh the ladies had numerous nights where they gave us a pounding LOL.

November 30th – again the hardest part, having to say our goodbyes.  We had such a wonderful time, I got to learn so many things, do so many things – just terrific.  Vadie and Char seemed to have a wonderful time here as well, but it was hard to keep up to Vadie during her shopping sprees.  Vadie tagged along with Char to a number of different happenings, and we both went to watch the grandchildren  play a few different sports.
We left Mathis and headed to Boerne TX a total of 237.1 Km.  We stayed at the Alamo Fiesta RV park.  There we met numerous ladies – “Sisters on the Fly” mostly travelling in smaller, older travel trailers.  We got to see inside many of them, they had dressed them up, wow, well in ways that only a woman could do it. The group of “Sisters” numbers approx 3300 and their aim is being in the outdoors.
 1976 Boler
 1968 Shasta



above pics show some personalization of the coaches
 
In the evening, we headed into Boerne and went to the festival they were having.  We had dinner at the Hungry Horse Restaurant, an excellent restaurant.  After dinner we went browsing through the displays as well as all the stores which were open, many of them which were closed the last time we were here.
 1947 Airstream - portable store - very nicely done

 totally restored 

December 1st – We travelled from Boerne to Lampasas Tx – total of 182.4 km.

Before leaving the campsite, the ladies wanted to see what a Wanderlodge looked like inside.  I told them how old it was, they were surprised, but they were even more surprised of what they saw inside.  The oohs and aahs, were both very vocal and expressive.  They could not believe how big it was, and all of the things the coach had to offer.  One of the ladies mentioned that our bathroom is larger than their travel trailer LOL.
These ladies do not travel with any pets, dogs, cats or husbands .  It is time for themselves to do things with their group.

Once we left we watched for a place called the “Pottery Ranch”.  Vadie was very interested in stopping there, but since we did not know how big an area they had for parking etc, we stopped at the closest Walmart, and went by car.  Well, to our surprise, there was very little pottery but many other things for sale, woodwork, fancy metalwork, artistic statues of nuts, bolts, springs etc.
 Clippers for sale

 Packards for sale
 Vadie with Rooster

 wooden furniture

 furniture made from antlers
 metal cactus

 metal flowers
 and tractors
 and many little metal ants
 this animal made from springs, nuts, bolts and numerous other things

 metal mexican

 butterfly chair
 dolphins
 and hundreds of other things - but very little pottery

We finally landed in Lampasas and staying at the Boone RV park.  Joe Hankin mentioned to us that many shops are open late tonight, as well as they have their Christmas parade, so again we headed to see different things again.  Now lets see, the last time we watched a Christmas parade was in Terrace, it was snowing and the temp was about -12C.  Here, I am in shorts and a Tshirt still.  








 And including Santa himself
 Old car we saw in parking lot on the way home - is that A/C on the passenger side?

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