A $40 a Night RV (Caravan) Park

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 — Travel — 1 min read

There was gravel and dirt with a small small piece of artificial turf (likely from the local high school football field when new artificial turf was installed) at the last RV park we stayed at. This park has grass and space galore. The jar on the concrete is solar tea. A quart jar filled with water, tea bags and sun is all it takes. She buys loose tea and tea bags, then she fills the tea bags with just the right amount of tea to let the sun do its thing resulting in perfectly smooth, delicious tea.

No comparison to the last RV park we stayed at. Large pull thru sites, multiple locations for showers and laundries, however the wifi is TengoInternet which we have had at other parks and it seems is never all that good. Luckily we have our own internet and it works very well. The real downside to this park? It is some 20 miles from what we do when we are in this area. Price and value are certainly two different things when it comes to RV parks.

A $35 a Night RV (Caravan) Park

May 27, 2022May 28, 2022 — Travel — 2 min read

Many people would say this is “not the ideal RV (caravan) site. It’s bounded on two sides by park roads, one the main entrance road, and the site is absolutely tiny. We are only here when we are not out and about. We bought Sophie for the spacious rear lounge so we could be inside when the weather wasn’t to our liking. Bottom line, it is home for a few days and suits us just fine.

Why we decided to downsize from a big diesel pusher RV to 25 foot (7.5 meters) Sophie. No problem fitting in any site anywhere. A little bigger and we wouldn’t have been able to stay here, we would have been too long for the site.

They only have 2 sites available for transients, which is what we are, all the other sites are for long term residents. So why did we stay here rather than the nicer park further out of town? 1. We like to be close to the places we are going to visit. 2. We really don’t care that much what the RV park is like. 3. Since most of our time at an RV park is spent inside Sophie so park amenities are not that important to us. (Over the years we have stayed at parks that would make this one look like a high end resort in comparison.)

Just a few thing that make this park what it is, Not shown is the pickup truck parked beside a park road that has a flat tire with the truck bed full of junk. While it’s not a park for everyone, we would stay here the next time we are again visiting Dripping Springs.

Pig Pen BBQ

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 — Food — 2 min read

An awesome BBQ joint in Dripping Springs, Texas

From the outside it sure doesn’t look like much, and it wasn’t all that easy to find the door. Our experience is that those BBQ places that have spiffy new buildings are places we eat at only once. Pig Pen BBQ actually started life as a food truck that grew so popular they had to acquire a building.

**Much of the décor is reclaimed sheet metal**

Everybody has her or his vice. Mine issues forth from the bright red dispenser. I simply have to have Dr. Pepper with my BBQ and it sure isn’t that diet stuff.

pork and beans — **She had a pork sandwich with charro beans**

I opted for a pork sandwich with a side of corn casserole. (The jalapeno was from her charro beans). Think chewy corn, finely diced tomatoes? and a cream sauce with some other ingredients that I couldn’t begin to guess what they were, all of which that made for the best corn dish outside of my wife’s scalloped corn that I have tasted. And we both agreed the huge mound of pork inside the bun was as good as it gets. It was so good neither one of us added any extra BBQ sauce to it. Next time we are in Dripping Springs we will be back here. Gotta try some of their other meats you know.

A Band (Group) of Javelinas

May 25, 2022May 23, 2022 — Eclectic — 1 min read

Video from one of our security cameras at our RV lot.

No more javelinas rooting around in our back yard since we fully enclosed it. Now they have to stay in the greenspace behind our lot. Before they would just come up on this side of the green space fence as ours and the lots around us had no backyard fences. Now we are the middle lot in five consecutive lots that have completely fenced backyards.

A Riding Mower Graveyard

May 24, 2022May 23, 2022 — Eclectic, Humor, Travel — 1 min read

Just down the road from the RV park where we are staying is what you see above, dozens and dozens of riding mowers. It is a small engine and lawnmower repair place, with our best guess being this is their parts department. Either that or they have far more business than they can take care and these are all waiting to be repaired., lol It’s the great thing about traveling down the road of life, you never know what you will come across. It’s your Life, remember to Laugh, Love Live.