We use GPS navigation in the Jeep, and the motorhome, both. We marvel at how useful it is, and how much information it provides. Change your mind, change your route, it just calculates a new one for you, complete with miles to next turn, miles to destination, and estimated time of arrival, given the nature of the roads you’re traveling. Could it be any better than this? Five years, ten years from now, we’ll be recalling how primitive it was. “Can you believe it didn’t even tie in to live internet traffic reports and route us around delays?”
Football
Hey. Did anyone else catch that bugle solo of the star spangled banner before the game?
Now that was a moving performance.
Now that was a moving performance.
Football
Hey. Happy Sunday.
Let’s have some football!!!
Let’s have some football!!!
Port a
A good day birding today. We had a target pond we’d never been to and a target bird we haven’t seen yet this year. We got them both! The pond is in the town of Holiday Beach, which isn’t even on the map. A little exploring, and we found it, surrounded by trees and rushes, with a few grassy openings. Lots of cover and food for birds, and a few clear spots to view from. This is the best pond we’ve ever seen here. Ducks, herons, more night herons than we’ve ever seen in one place, egrets, ibis, more moorhens than we’ve ever seen in one place, coots, grebes, siskin. Alive with birds. Our target bird was the fulvous whistling duck. There are plenty of black bellied whistling ducks in South Texas, but the fulvous is rarely seen outside Florida. Ten minutes of watching and suddenly there they were, right in front of us. Fulvous whistling ducks. Good birding on the way there and back too. Osprey, kingfisher, shrike, doves, spoonbills, black bellied whistlers, gadwall, Judy spotted a couple american oystercatchers from the highway so we went back and got them for the first time this year. Got a gull-billed tern for the first time ever. It was a good birding day.
Port a
Wow, is this park packed! Gulf Waters RV Resort. Sometimes it empties out to about half full, but then fills right back up. I’m glad we bought a site here, but now I wish we’d bought two. The price for a new one is twice what we paid for ours a year ago. When we stayed here last August, ours was one of the few sites finished in the new section. We were the only people staying on this pond. This time we have neighbors. It’s nice to have neighbors. There is always someone to say hello to and visit with.