Rockport, TX. Raintree RV Park. We wanted to see the Corpus Christie area but didn't want to be too close to the city. We found this park just east of CC and it had an affordable price tag, wifi access, and laundry facilities. It's amazing what full time RV'ers look for isn't it! The ducks are orange billed and their feathers range from light tans to dark browns. Very unusual coloring, but they're still ducks. The owner was starting to put pylons around one pond to stop erosion. I'm sure the ducks and turtles are not going to be happy loosing the easy access. Rockport is an artist community and there was a young man tent camping in the park who came to the area to pursue an artists life. Right now he's working for the park. He was quite good and I hope he achieves his dream.

Future posts will show what we saw during our stay along the gulf.

Georgetown, TX. RV park on Georgetown Lake. This is another COE campground. We saw this deer the 1st day we set up there . After that we didn't see anything! According to Jim we were in a Cedar Forrest and animals did not take kindly to the setting. Cedars as we all know repel bugs, which was nice, but after TN I missed having animals to watch. One very nice thing was that each site had a covered picnic shelter. Both RV pad and shelter are concrete floored. Had a funny occurance. As I said we didn't see any animals however one morning we woke up, went outside and found a bag of peanuts on the ground. Bag open, peanuts neatly shelled. From the tracks we determined it was raccoons. Whats interesting is that out storage gates were down but not latched shut. We had 3 sealed bags of peanuts in a plastic WalMart bag. Somehow the coon(s) went under the gate, into the storage area, and took only one bag of peanuts out. Jim knew imediately they were smart raccoons because they took the White Sox bag and left the Cubs bag untouched. We had our 1st disagreement!

We stayed here from May 26th until June 1st. We are waiting for a start date for our new jobs a construction site security which should be within a week or so. Have decided to go see the Gulf of Mexico before we're on site for ??? months. I'll keep posting.

My apologies to Sara. This picture was taken May 22nd. In Steve and Sara's house. Yes, that is Lee playing with a balloon! Sara had picked me up at the airport and on the way home we stopped for dinner. I forgot all about Sara's dislike of balloons s-o-o on the way out I got one for Lee. We put it in the car with us and tied it to a chair when we got home. Sara never said a word or showed her normal emotions about balloons. She went to Jackies graduation so she was gone when Lee got up. After breakfast this morning he had a great time playing with this wilting balloon. I didn't realize it was a new experience for him until Steve got home and reminded me. Sorry Sara. Since this is possibly a one time only shot I had to post it.

We got fired after only 3 days! We had answered an ad in Workamper that sounded unusual. It was to take care of exotic animals at the companys corporate headquarters. We would have an RV site with full hookups including cable TV and Wifi for working 20 hours each, and receive 1000.00 a month salary. We left Obey River in TN and spent Fri night just south of Little Rock, AR and Sat night just west of Ft. Worth, TX. The RV park in TX belonged to a couple who had wanted to hire us but we didn't decide soon enough for them so they hired someone else, who didn't show up. They offered the positions to us again but we had already committed to the gig in Austin so had to turn them down. Anyhow...we got to the job site which is on the sw edge of Austin on Sun evening. Very rural property with a long narrow driveway lined with stone and beautiful trees, bushes and plantings on one side and a creek, pond with waterfall on the other. About a mile up we saw a gentleman outside a building and stopped to talk to him. Introduced ourselves and he explained about the company and the property. The current exotic animals included kapibarras, 2 donkeys, 2 goats, 1 two towed sloth, a mean rooster and several laying hens. I jokingly asked him if this was something like Michael Jackson and Nevernever Land. He laughed and said no Jackson would never set foot on this property. The next day I learned that this was his property...open mouth, insert feet. Our 1st day was meeting the animals and learning what they ate (twice a day) went to the post office to get the mail, the feed store for pet food. Got a call that afternoon that my ex father-in-law had passed away. Tues tried to find out what more specifically our duties would be beside feeding animals twice a day, and no one seemed to know. Wed morning I flew back to IL to attend the wake and funeral. Wed evening got a call from Jim telling me we had been fired and had to be off the property by 9 the next morning. Later the owner apologized to Jim but by then it was too late and Jim said we'd be out in the morning. On the road again!!

Final days in TN. Due to a few problems with our RV site at the Obey River Campground and the lack of communication with the outside world we decided to leave TN. We had talked to the Ranger and had found another couple to replace us there so we left on good terms. As I promised here are the pictures of the Geese babies. George and Gloria had 8 babies and they are about 1 week old in these pictures. Glen and Glenda only had 2 that survived and this picture shows them right after their 1st swim. I miss them! We pulled out on May 16th headed for a new job in Austin, TX. Looking forward to our new adventure as animal keepers in TX!