Off to San Angelo

Monday April 15, 2019

Up, packed, vehicle hooked up and we heading out of San Antonio by 10:30.  We timed that right,

there wasn't a lot of traffic and since it was 8 lanes of upper and lower roads we were thankful.  We finally get off I-10 and get on State road 87 which was a direct shot to San Angelo.  It was an uneventful ride with only 1 stop, but we did find a couple of towns that looked interesting to come back and visit.  We finally pulled into the Goodfellow AFB Recreation Area and were parked and set up by 3:30.  Nice ground with lots of potential, just needs some decent maintenance, and grass trimmed.  We took a couple of walks around the park, then we sat outside and met the neighbor lady, then headed inside right around dark.  Burgers and fixin's for dinner.

Tuesday April 16, 2019

We both got up feeling like crap.  I guess we are following the allergies right up thru Texas and neither of us slept very well as we got congested when we laid down last night.  It probably didn't help that it's a gray and cloudy day.  Brad ended up making breakfast on the grill, then about 11:00 we headed out to find a BB &B, a place for lunch, drug store and a free ATM machine then did some sight seeing of the city before we head home at 3:30, now we have found a couple of places to go visit for the rest of the week.  Back home a walk for Rudy, laundry and working on the blog.  No clue what's for dinner, but that will be a little later. 

Wednesday April 17 2019.

Up, breakfast and out of here by 10:30. Headed in town to Fort Concho an old fort from the Indian

wars time (1857) the buildings were made of stone and have held up amazingly well over the years.  We spent almost two hours there and learned quite a bit about life on the frontier.  Then in town to the  Zero One Ale house for lunch, Diane had blackened fish tacos(very good) and I had Cajun chicken(OK). We walked through town and checked out some antique stores and Murals painted on the sides of buildings.  Some are historic and some are just scenic but all are very well done.  On the way home we stopped at the grocery store trying to find something for dinner.  We ended up with stuffed mushrooms that we did on the grill, yum.

Thursday April 18 2019.

Today we had a wind warning.  Now in this part of Texas any wind less than 15 mph is considered calm, 15 to 25mph is breezy so today we found out that when they have a wind warning, it is 30 mph

Vietnam Memorial

and up.  I just finished cooking breakfast on the grill when the wind picked up.  We stayed inside and rocked and rolled with the wind.  We made some more reservations but we have been having a hard time finding CG's.  We want to go see the Carlsbad Caverns only to find the gas &oil business has overwhelmed the campgrounds out here.  Most private campground only take reservations by the month.  Diane was persistent and found us four nights at a campground close enough to the caverns.  The wind eased up a little and we went to the grocery store(wine) and stopped a Vietnam Memorial to pay our respects.  Dinner inside and by 8pm the wind had subsided.