What a Ride!

Deployed Again

Sue and I were sent to the staging area in Allentown, PA on Thursday for Hurricane Irene. We left Houston at 6:30PM Thursday and arrived Saturday at 7:30AM just in time for our 8:00AM meeting. With Sue’s “navigation” we drove 1800 miles in 36 hours, but we still made it in time. We got claims and are now in Stroudsburg, PA. with all of our claims in the Poconos. I will post updates when I get a chance along with some pictures. I do have a few pictures to post, but too tired to do it today.

Until next time!

Visiting Friends and Fishing

We finally left Lake Charles and headed west to visit friends. Our first stop was in San Antonio to visit our good friends Connie and Manuel. I forgot to take pictures for my blog (I have to get back in the swing of things), but Connie took some, so make sure you check her blog. We ate, played cards, played dominoes and ate some more. The usual RV friends thing!  

We stayed at Connie and Manuel’s place Thursday and Friday and left Saturday morning and headed to Lazy L and L campground on the Guadalupe River near Sattler, Texas. Sattler is between Canyon Lake and New Braunfels, Texas. Saturday we played in the river and relaxed until the evening. The campground has a large covered pavilion where they had a live country band playing and since we were camping there we got in free!

The band.

Sunday we visited Mike Hicks, an old co-worker of mine form when I worked for the Caterpillar dealer in Lake Charles. Mike and his lovely wife Charlene invited us for a fish fry at their home in Boerne, Texas.

Mike battering up the fish!

The fish.

Sue and Charlene sampling the wine.    * sorry about the glare!

There were deer all over Mike’s property and the surrounding properties.

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Today, Monday we played some more in the river and I did a little fishing. The river is very, very low. It is down about 4 feet from where it was last year when we took the grand kids here.

Upstream from where the grand kids were playing last year.

Downstream photo.

I fished for about a hour and a half this morning with my ultra-light rod and caught a few small bass and bream. No keepers but still a lot of fun. This evening I fished with my heavier rod and caught a couple small catfish and then this one keeper.

I got a few more bites but no more catfish. I filleted the fish and Sue said she would cook it tomorrow. Yippee!!!

We leave here tomorrow and head to The Woodlands, Texas for Camp Freightliner, which is a 2 day class on our Freightliner chassis on our motorhome. The class is Wednesday and Thursday and I should learn a lot more about our motorhome and how to take care of it.

On another note, we were notified by Pilot Catastrophe to be on standby for Hurricane Irene. Hopefully, they will be no loss of life and we can get some more insurance adjusting done. That would sure help the pocket book.

Until next time!

A Little Update

I have been playing with the grandkids for the last few weeks and Sue has been taking care of her parents. We both had doctor appointments and Sue’s appointment went well. Mine not so well.

I told the doctor that since last summer I haven’t been able to catch my breath and I was coughing a lot. I thought I might have had COPD (watching too many commercials!) since I thought I had all the symptoms. The doctor set me up with a nuclear stress test and a chest x-ray. I did the chest x-ray the same day and they doctor’s office called and said they thought I had walking pneumonia! They sent me a prescription for antibiotics at the nearest Walmart. This was on a Friday and the following Tuesday I did the nuclear stress test. After the stress test I did not hear from the doctor’s office or the hospital so I thought everything was good. The doctor’s follow-up appointment was 2 weeks later, so I washed the complete motorhome – roof and all sides and did a few other chores not knowing any better!

Well at the follow-up appointment the doctor still did not have the results from the stress test and once he got them he was extremely mad!!!! The results showed some blockage and they hospital did not let anyone know!!! So off to the cardiologist the same day as my follow-up appointment and the cardiologist scheduled me for a angiogram with the possibility of putting in a stent. We they did put in a stent yesterday and said no driving until tomorrow.

Which is good because we had planned to leave Lake Charles on Thursday since Sue’s mom is doing a lot better and can get around. So off we go to Texas to visit friends and maybe a rally and a seminar on our freightliner chassis.

Until next time!