Thanksgiving at the Gulf

We spent a couple of days at an RV park near Austin Texas doing errands.  Just doing a major load of laundry and groceries was enough to keep us busy for a day.  The next morning I started an update of our GPS.  After 4 hours of downloading it still wasn’t done.  It was getting late in the day and we had several hours to the next place, so I just shut it down.  It turns out that I didn’t download some of the maps so the GPS didn’t work half the time.  We had to rely on an atlas map.  We got there OK, and then found that the state park was full.  I didn’t realize that Thanksgiving was a major day for camping! 

Our philosophy is that we pretty much take our chances.  We haven’t made reservations so that we can adjust our schedule depending on if we want to stay longer or if we change our mind where we are going.  Luckily, there was an RV park that was well reviewed within 20 minutes.  Took a phone call to find since our GPS was out, but we got there.  We may need to start making more reservations if the Winter Texans start filling up the parks. 

More terminology.  Snowbirds are people (like us) who travel where it’s warm in the winter.  In Texas, they are called Winter Texans.

We’re on the Texas gulf coast for the next week or so.  Seems like a great place for Thanksgiving!  We spent a little time at the beach where we saw a LOT of jellyfish along with a few hermit crabs.

We had an RV version of a Thanksgiving meal.  We have turkey (fillets only), cranberries (in a bread from Walmart), potatoes, stuffing (from a box), and pumpkin pie (small ones from Walmart).  Not bad for the size of the kitchen!

In honor of Thanksgiving, we are thankful for family, friends, and that we said "what the heck" and took the chance to go on this adventure.