Awake: 6:00am sleep 6+50 sunny overnight @ Houston, Texas.
Quietly, I go downstairs & find Jay & Carol already awake & making coffee.
Kathy hears us talking & joins us a short time later. Jay asks us where we
are going from Livingston. “South in Texas,” I reply. He reminds me of an
interesting town on the Gulf Coast by the name of “Aransas Pass” that has
a large bird sanctuary. With his map, he elaborates & I am interested. He
also reviews a shorter & easier route for us for leaving Houston while we
drink coffee & eat Carol’s homemade blueberry muffins for breakfast.
Carol also showers us with leftover turkey, stuffing, & sugar snap peas to
have later @ our leisure. It was wonderful seeing these guys again &
catching up on their world & what they have been doing in retirement. We
thank them for their gracious accommodations & another delicious
Thanksgiving dinner. We leave Carol & Jay @ 8:45am; having the Garmin GPS
guide us to the suggested toll road is a much easier & faster route
leaving Houston. After one stop @ a Kroger store for groceries & 10
bottles of wine, we arrive @ our bus @ 12:00 noon.
@ 4:00pm we join Pat & Mike, our near neighbors, who are hosting a social
gathering outdoors in the shade of their very large 5th Wheel Titan RV.
About 10 couples attend, most of whom we’ve met. With the goodies we all
contributed to this event, K & I figured it constituted enough food to
qualify as a dinner for the night. We had to leave the party early &
attend the 5:30pm vigil Mass @ Saint Joseph church on Church Street in
west Livingston. Afterward, Kathy picks up a few items from Wal-Mart while
I top off the Suzuki’s fuel tank.
In the bus, I program our GPS for “Aransas Pass,” Texas; then retract our
slides & we are ready for tomorrow’s moving out.
Today’s high temp=78 Lights out: 11:20pm
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