Awake: 6:41am Temp 53 sleep 6+19 cloudy overnight @
Corpus Christi, Texas.
Today is free calling on our cell phone so Kathy calls Melissa: they talk
little due to the Footes having morning plans. Kathy calls Katrina &
leaves a message. Kathy calls her friend Marge in Grand Junction, CO. &
they talk for close to an hr.
We leave the Greyhound RV Park in Corpus Christi @ 11:02am. Smooth roads
continue on I-37 & US-77. Entering Brownsville, the drizzle of rain
strengthens to heavy rain & traffic funnels down to a single lane, plus we
didn’t obey our GPS & missed our exit ramp; this leads us into a traffic
jam of road construction & Christmas shoppers, adding 30 min or more to
our en route time. Even worse, now our clean house is dirty again from all
the road spray. UGH!
Arrive @ the Winter Haven RV Park in Brownsville @ 2:12pm. This place is a
gated senior living complex, with over 600 owned sites and only 29 rental
sites for transient RV people like us. My parking skills went awry; it
took 3 tries with Kathy’s help to finally get parked nicely.
Today’s travel: 3+10 time 162 miles 21 gal used 7.2 mpg
54.4 avg speed.
We use our Garmin GPS to locate a nearby church, 3.5 miles south, & attend
the 6:00pm vigil Mass in English @ Saint Luke’s. The visiting priest gave
a wonderful homily. It is a very large English/Spanish parish with half of
the Masses in Spanish.
8:00pm dinner: Smoked bratwurst, leftover sweet potatoes, my cousin’s corn
off the cob, & spinach salad.
Late satellite movie: “You Can’t Take It with You” with Jean Arthur,
Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, etc. An eccentric but
blissfully happy household becomes prime Capra fare. This movie was an
Oscar winner for Best Picture & Director. 1938. Add it to your list;
you’ll be glad you did.
Rain continues throughout the day, evening & night.
Travel high temp=71 Elevation 26 ft Lights out: 12:24am
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