Bridges to Ships and More Beaches

January 30, 2014

Tomorrow means we have been in Port A for 3 weeks...we feel like our trailer is our home and we love being Winter Texans.  Our rig is really small in comparison to most of the big Class A buses and 5th wheels here, but it is perfect for us AND we have no snow to shovel.   The photo below shows 'plowing Texas style'.  The little trailer is a 'decoration' we picked up at our stop at Lake Livingston. 

We had a fun dinner with two other couples on Tuesday at the local Mexican restaurant where the margaritas are $1.50 along with beers for the same price.  The food is great and the company was even better.  You get authentic Tex-Mex in Port Aransas. We went back to Ev and Kathleen's for nummy strudel dessert.  They are full timers right now and we are pretty sure that isn't for us.  At least not now.

I hate to say it to our Northern readers, but it's been really cool and windy here.  Buster's delivers propane on Wednesday and there are lots of tanks lined up for a fill.  He's got quite a business going and the price escalates every week.  This also means we flip the bun warmers on in the car, bundle up and head for town.  We drive 15 miles on a flat and straight road that is really a flood plain to the JFK causeway where the bridge rises so far over the waters, you can see forever.  It's an amazing sight and the main route for the oil barges to the Gulf from Corpus Christi.  We are only about 20 minutes to Corpus Christi.  We really like this town and know our way around pretty good.  We love that there is always water in almost every direction you look. 

We saw the new movie, Jack Ryan (which was GREAT!), Gil got a new hat and we did the tour of the USS Lexington.  This aircraft carrier is moored in Corpus Christi permanently.  It was a great tour and the day was perfect to view the planes on the flight deck.  Four football fields could fit on the deck and this was a small carrier.  We felt like true tourists on vacation .  The bridge in the background is lighted at night and is in downtown Corpus.  Even found time to say hi to Maycen on Tango while on board the ship. 

It's interesting that the Gulf shores of Texas, have Adopt-A-Beach like we have Adopt-A-Highway.  It's a very successful program and next Saturday is the day to clean the beach.  They say the things gathered from the Gulf beaches will fill 90 semi trailers.  Pretty amazing, since we never see debris on the beach here...just shells and treasures from the sea.

It warmed up today, so we're back walking the beach.  Willie has become a reach beach bum, but crashes pretty early at night.  The desert is blooming more, the days are getting longer and we pray the temperatures will continue to keep warming up!  And we hope, really hope, the brutal winter relaxes for our friends and family in Minnesota.  They deserve an early and warm spring!  If not, we may never come back:=)