Awake: 6:11am Temp 33 sleep 6+51 sunny overnight @
Livingston, Texas.
Kathy again joins the “Line Dancing” group @ 8:00am for 1.5 hrs of
exercise. And again, I use this quiet time for catching up on nat’l news &
then magazine reading.
@ 10:00am K & I, along with a dozen others, tour the Escapee business
offices. The mail sorting facility was 1st. Over 10,000 people have their
mail sent to this Livingston, Texas address; then it is either forwarded
to a temporary address for the traveling RV members or picked up
personally @ the campground mailroom. We have seen the US mail tractor
trailer arrive twice a day during our walking times; morning is delivery
and afternoon is pick-up. Obviously they do a great job as not one
complaint was heard from anyone. The workers who sort by hand gave us a
demo of their automated “commercial letter & documents” sorting machine.
Unbelievably fast! But, it does not do hand printed or written envelopes.
Next we are invited to the 2nd floor level of the business office; here we
take a seat & listen to Janice, one of the Editors of the Escapees
Magazine, describe the normal process of the publication procedures. Next,
Bud enlightened all of us about our membership benefits with the Escapees.
We ourselves learned a little as we’ve been members for less than 2 yrs.
We enjoyed seeing a “behind the scenes” look of what it takes to run a
busy RV business.
After lunch, I walk to the Club house & attend a small seminar with about
14 other people on a tire pressure monitoring system called: “Pressure
Pro.” This wireless system gives constant pressure readout of each tire
that you have hooked up with its monitoring cap, and if that pressure
should drop on an individual tire by 12%, an alarm would sound & lights
flash up front on the dashboard to identify the low tire. It measures tire
pressure without having to be moving down the road. My “Smart Tire” system
has to be moving down the road in order to get readout.
6:30 dinner: Leftover sausage in Italian tomato sauce with mixed salad &
toast.
Late satellite movie: “The Hurricane” with Dorothy Lamour, Hon Hall, Mary
Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, etc. 1st-rate escapism on isle of
Manikoora, where idyllic native life of Hall & Lamour is disrupted by
vindictive governor Massey. Climactic hurricane effects have never been
equaled. 1937 And….remember: no computers to enhance the scenes or
miniature models used.
High temp=67 Lights out: 11:13pm
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