Awake: 7:07am Temp 52 sleep 6+30 overcast overnight @ Mission, Texas.
After breakfast, we prepare our coach for travel. This campground has been great; lots of activities, interesting people, it’s close to the freeway & has a very decent weekly rate. Why are we moving just ¾ of a mile then, you ask? Well, our coach is sinking into the earth & we are uncomfortable with the threat of rain. Since our arrival last Sunday, our tires have already sunk down into the sod 5 to 6 inches. Anyway, it’ll be good to be on terra firma.
We are ready to move out now (10:30am) but our neighbor’s truck is blocking our turnout. They are attending a devotion service here in the main hall & should be back within the hr. When they do return, we have a nice chat with Jim & Mary Ellen, farmers from Ohio spending their 1st winter down here in the Rio Grande Valley.
I ask Kathy to walk alongside of our bus when I pull out to watch our clearance between the bushes & the electrical pole. We leave the Mission West RV Park @ 12:00 noon. Kathy follows behind me in the Suzuki to our next campground.
It took us about 30 min total to move ourselves to the Bentsen Grove Resort, including parking & running (4) slides out. I think we’re going to like it here. We thought the Mission West RV Campground was large with 340 sites; this place is like a small city having 850 sites. Now at last, we both feel better having our coach sitting on good level gravel with less thoughts of sinking into the earth.
7:00pm dinner: Leftover lemon poppy chicken & leftover beef stroganoff.
Later we share phone talk time with Nick in Seattle. Jerry is still adjusting to Pacific Time, depriving Nick of some needed sleep very early in the morning. He’s a busy boy, crawling all over the condo and beginning to pull himself up on furniture. Eriko is now reading & recording in Japanese once a week for a company in Seattle, singing with the coral group once a week & meeting with her (mom & babies) group once a week.
Evening movie: “Cinema Provisio” with Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio, etc. A young boy is mesmerized by the movie theater in his small Italian town (in the years following WWII), & pursues a friendship with its crusty but warm-hearted projectionist. 1988. English subtitles. We both enjoyed this story a lot. It was shortened from the original in 1989 & won the Best Foreign Film Oscar.
Later, we share talk time with Katrina: she is getting serious about buying a townhouse. She & a realtor looked @ a few townhouses in the town of Littleton, CO. today.
High temp=64 Lights out: 12:33am
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