Thurs 12/27 & Fri 12/28

Thursday, 12/27

One of the four ferries running today

It was so windy even this pelican had a hard time flying into the wind to fish.

These are really huge boats that hold a lot of vehicles.



We're preparing to board the one on the right as the one on the left just filled up before us.

Made our way through Galveston.  Lots of huge homes along the way and a cruise ship docked at the end of one street. 

 
Stopped about 5 pm in Hollettsville, TX a small town.  Parked in the lot for the Benevenuto Italian Grill and Steakhouse.  Went in and had a lovely dinner and asked permission to stay overnight in their lot.  No problem.  It was a tad noisy from truck traffic, but didn't bother me any. 
 
Friday, December 28

Continued on small roads in TX towards our lot north of San Antonio.  Went through Shiner, home of Shiner Brewery (Shiner Boch is one of fave's.)  but we didn't stop by.  Seemed like a lovely small town with pretty churches and a beautiful city party all decorated for Christmas and with a large nativity. 
 
Made it to New Braunfels - Camping World to dump our tanks about 12:30 pm.  Talked to a couple of gals.  One works for State Farm as an Ins. Adjuster and was saying how many areas they drove to in their RV to do adjusting....way too many disasters.
 
When they are at home in Kerrville, they come once a week to work at CW to clean out the tanks of used RVs they purchased for resale.  They have a machine called Total Wash or something like that which uses a power washer to clean the tanks so the sensors inside the tank reflect the true status of how full the tank is. 
 
Arrived at our Little Ranch lot about 2:30 pm.  Decided our cleared area isn't large enough to easily navigate around with our larger rig, so called Jan and Ken and got permission to stay on their empty lot next door (which is larger and all cleared and for sale.)  Jo and Pete, neighbors, came over to greet us and then we got settled in.  Was a beautiful sunny day with high of 62.  So nice to see the sun after so many gray, cloudy days. 

I am so grateful that today I finally am feeling more like myself after two sinus infections.  Like crawling out of a hole after being foggy for 5 weeks.  Thank you, Lord!  Hope it continues.







Crossed over onto Galveston, Island on one of the four huge ferries running this am.  They have two ferry docks on each side - very busy port.  Watched huge oil tankers and humongous container ships plying their way up and down Galveston Bay.