Very Busy Day

 ROCKPORT, TEXAS

JANUARY 30, 2925

The pace of things was fast and ferocious for the whole day until dark tonight.

Early this morning our supper meal was on my mind. We have food prepared and frozen as well as things to prepare. So the OFM chose homemade chicken noodle stoup for supper tonight. What caught us by surprise was the quantity of already prepared and frozen meals in the freezer. Twelve meals ready to thaw and eat were awaiting our choice for tonight. The OFM thought we had about four or five. The OFM needs to be careful about the meal planning in the future so we do not end up wasting food.

We headed out to the Municipal Park walking path in late morning when the outside weather was getting pleasant at 73F. As we strode along in beautiful weather we were thinking about if we want to change over our RV style to van life style. It has several nice features to it and we have been putting a lot of thought into deciding about moving away from the Castle. It was a November 2006 model and we have been living full time in it since July of 2007 and it has about 100,000 miles on it according to our records. We can see the wear and repairs and maintenance evidence in the unit.

As the OFM wandered along he looked up from the trail and saw this ahead.

We have been watching this pair of rving vans overnighting here and there in town. From the legal and free night spots that they have been choosing it has been obvious they know what they are doing, So when we got close the OFM deviated over to their parking spot and was able to get a huge amount of reasonable information from them about that style of legally camping,

It turns out it is a daughter and dad team. He is about 84 and has a huge long time of rving. They were very helpful and knowledgeable. He has lots of years of going out on the road for a few months often. They turned out to be a wonderful source of excellent information for the OFM.

Now we jump ahead towards sundown.  We wanted to try for a great sunset for a change so we went back down to the beach park early to get in some more walking exercise. This time we chose on the beach to see what junk is washing ashore.

The tide was way out and lots of the beach was huge.  Lots of the regular stuff was on the beach from the waves bringing it ashore.  We say one trinket lying in the sand all by itself and we got a picture of this 1 inch across item.  What is it?

Other than that trinket the beach was just the usual grass and some oyster shells.

Soon it started to get into sunset mode and we quickly headed to a spot at the harbor that we hoped would make a good sunset location. After we got there we had doubts about the spot but it was tooooooooo late to go any place else so here it it for your enjoyment.

After that effort was over we headed home to attack that chicken noodle soup with a vengeance. And then it was time to prepare the blog for tonight.

We hope everyone enjoys the stories tonight and we get some more for tomorrow. Goodnight.