Tide Too HIgh

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-08-2020

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There was a little surprise waiting for the OFM Teams when we got to the Salt Water Pool this morning. The tide was extra high and the water level had run up into the grassy picnic area. We had no idea the tide was supposed to be high today.

We got in some walking around the area but the OFM feet were hurting so we cut the walk short. When we got back to the Castle the OFM dug out some more sole liners to help his feet. Tomorrow we will give them a try.

While meandering around we found one plant with red flowers.  We remember it as a Turks Cap but if that is wrong please lets us know the real name.

We have another coloring book cactus ready to show.  It took forever it seemed but the finished product is not too bad we think.

It seemed that lots of tourists came to town this weekend because most of the waterfront was CROWDED until late afternoon. Some of the crowd seemed to be winter Texans finally arriving from the frozen north.  They are welcome and usually bring some funny stories with them. Many times visiting with the winter Texans is a good way of trying to have tooooo much fun.

Credit Card Hacked

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-07-2020

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A beautiful warm day got the OFM out for a nice walk in the Memorial Park before the weekend crowds got out of bed. The OFM joints were not in the mood for brisk walking so we took it easy and still got in about two miles of photography speed walking. That made for a wonderful stroll around the park.

We got over to another of the OFM Studio locations for his mobile studio style.  The live oak trees are always a scene to enjoy since they grow in lots of different grotesque shapes. This special spot is close to the junction of the trail segments but has always been very quiet and peaceful. There is even a rest room and drinking fountain just behind where The OFM stood to take this picture.

The vegetation is starting to get serious about the fall color explosion and we loved it. The art inspiration folders got lots more pictures to turn into paintings. Here is one of the pond.  Look carefully and you will see a very nice location for sitting and enjoying nature at its best.

As we rounded the far end of the pond and the sun broke through the foliage the scene was fantastic. The sun and the leaves from the cat tail plants were doing a really exciting color show. That OFM fool must have taken ten pictures from different directions. But this one is the one he chose for his readers to enjoy.  

By the time we got finished at the park the weekend visitors to this tourist area were starting to mill around the town.  Traffic on a nice weekend here in Rockport can be a bit intense at times. So we stayed out of the way.

Back at the Castle we got a nasty surprise.  The credit union security service called us and the OFM credit card account had been hacked.  We spent a while on the phone verifying the charges that were correct and getting rid of the illegal charges. But the final result is the credit card is now canceled and it will be more than two weeks until a replacement gets to us.

In the meantime we will just have to get by with working to find a way of trying to have tooooo much fun anyway.

Nice Day

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-06-2020

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Not much exciting today. A little fishing and a little walking was the big exciting activity.  Also visiting with several friends took up a couple of hours of the day.

Here is a bird on the hunt at the Memorial Park ponds.

Overall it was a nice comfortable day of trying to have tooooo much fun.

Biker Don

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-05-2020

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A decently early start was achieved for a change. We got to the wooden pier in time to see old friend Santa Claus Bob who has a big nice white beard.  He is retired from it now but he spent years being a Santa at Christmas for benevolent groups around the area. We had a great visit and the OFM got caught up on a lot of the local news from while we were gone this year. We finally parted company and the OFM headed to the fishing areas.

The bulkhead protecting the Allego Channel was our destination.  Nothing was being caught until the OFM felt a bump on his lure and set the hook. Then the unknown critter set off to swimming and the reel drag got maxed out. Whatever it was just kept on swimming away and the reel was reluctantly letting line out. As the reel was getting very low on line the critter stopped.  We pumped it toward us and the critter would just swim away for a little ways.

Apparently we finally got it worn down some and we started pumping the rod to gain some line back on the reel. We had a serious contest for several minutes. When we finally got the critter near the bulkhead we could see what it was.

It was a sting ray about 18 to 20 inches wide. It had put up a great fight. Now it was time to release the critter. As the OFM tried to get close to the edge of the bulkhead he was getting worried about falling in with the ray. Then just as he reached for the line the knot at the lure gave up  POW. And the ray went on its way.  And the OFM did not fall in.

Back at Sierra the OFM decided he was tired and ready to leave. Before we got out of the park my old friend Don showed up riding a bike. We ended up visiting for a good while. Then it was time for Don to start back to his RV.  The OFM waved bye as Don rode his trusty steed to home.

It was a great day with lots of activities accomplished from trying to have tooooo much fun.

Really Rough Day

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-04-2020

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It has not been a great day at all and we are not talking politics either. The morning started early so we could get to the fishing first thing and then walk. Well that did  not happen. We got to the pier in good time but when the OFM stepped out of Sierra his right knee and hip said “WE ARE NOT DOING ANY THREE MILES TODAY” and we did not.  

Our guess is the mile or so yesterday walking on the beach with the right foot path being about one inch lower than the left foot path did in the OFM’s joints. We need to watch out for that in the future.

So we just took the short walk out onto the wooden pier to do a bit of fishing. One minimum size trout was landed and returned to the water. No other fish were caught.

About then something seemed wrong with the OFM digestion system so we headed for the Castle.  It was late afternoon before we got going again. This evening he is doing fine.

Anyway as he got less bad he chose to start a new painting in the cactus coloring book.  It was a very pleasurable task for a still recovering old fat fool.

Here is where we are after three hours of colored pencil work. Colored pencil has the reputation of being the slowest for of art mediums to use. We agree with that statement.

It certainly was nice to be smearing colored lines on paper again. Hopefully tomorrow all the OFM systems will be raring to play and try to have tooooo much fun outdoors or indoors.

GISP Truth

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-03-2020

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We were just getting going on the early morning walk when across the parking lot we heard the OFM’s people name being called. WHOA. What is happening? What was happening was Ray that we had not seen since last January was hollering at the OFM.  We sauntered on over for a nice reunion of old folks.

During the reunion the subject of Goose Island State Park and the pier there came up. Ray had been told the pier that was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey had finally been replaced. The OFM had been following the Texas State Parks web site and it says the pier and area will still be in construction and closed for a few more months.

Well that gave the Teams a good reason to head on over there at the first chance. Which we did.

Here is the truth and pictures to prove it.

Goose Island is a small island that is part of Goose Island State Park (GISP).  We rolled up to the entrance kiosk and received our entry pass. Then Sierra hard headedly headed on to the short bridge to Goose Island.

Sure enough the road was all repaired. Then when we rounded the bend in the road, there it was. A completed brand new first class pier. It is definitely a major improvement over the worn down old pier.

This shows the long pier that is available to fish from on some pretty prime fishing areas.

The other thing that the website says wrong is that camping on the island is still closed.  Most of the campsites were in use or had a reserved sign on them.

It is a pretty decent place to go to camp or just have a nice day walking in the trees or messing around the water. However it is a very popular place. To the best of his memory, the OFM’s first time there was in early 1971. He has been back many times since then.

Another asset is that the park is only 5-6 miles from the Rockport/Fulton area and all their nice shops, restaurants and other coastal type of fun things to do while trying to have tooooo much fun.

Beach Lounger

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-02-2020

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Important decisions have to be made every morning it seems. So after considerable deliberation and bother the OFM decided it was a beach walk for our morning exercise. Hard decisions like that wear him out.

Not far after we got started was this bit of Beach ART someone did to have fun.

The art was done well and probably gave someone a great time trying to have tooooo much fun, which is wonderful to see. The OFM just had to get into the picture some way as you can see.

Mostly the beach was free of debris and trash and we found very few items to interest us. However the bird flocks were crowded on the sand frequently. They did move out of our way slowly as the OFM marched through.

On the going away direction near the turn around point was a fellow out enjoying his day at the winter beach. We wish all the days could be this nice.

As we left the beach back at the starting part, someone had picked up a shell critter and left it at a picnic table. Here is the grizzly critter and its home.

They do look dangerous don’t they.

In the late afternoon we headed to the marina fishing area to see what was happening.  Cocaho Charlie was happening. He had caught this 23“ speckled trout and was headed home to clean it and cook it.  

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We bet it made a great supper for the evening.

We are sure that catching a fish like that is a wonderful way of trying to have tooooo much fun.

Plop Down Spot

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 11-01-2020

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The morning was cool enough to want a wind breaker at the start but it was quickly too warm for the wind breaker. We were at Memorial Park here in Rockport Tx. The OFM had been calling it Community Park but has been corrected on that issue. Whatever name you call it, it is a very nice place for fun.

A request came in a few days ago. “Please show us your studio where you paint.”  The studio is where ever he plops down to do his art. So tonight we will get a tour of the typical “plop down spots” the OFM uses. 

The primary studio is the dining room table in the Castle and it has been seen many times in this blog. The table is about three feet by two feet and gets crowded frequently with all sorts of projects.

Some other places you will see are representative of locations all along our travel routes. These next three happen to be here in Rockport.

Our first one is called the Red Bench.

It is just a bench near the pond and a few feet from the paved walking trail. The OFM can relax there and make sketches in a sketch book or color a painting clipped to his clipboard. Basically he can and does just paint where he happens to be. It is a nice place but can be a bit less that perfect if it is wet and rainy or cold or too hot.

Another place in the park is the shaded rest area next to the main restroom.

It has the clean rest room, trash can, drinking fountain, good seating, close to the parking lot and nice folks and puppies coming by to visit with on occasion. This place works decently for water color painting with the sinks and water supply. Other artists from 5 year old to into their 80‘s have been seen here.

Then we have the location in Rockport TX Beach Park at the gazebos.

The two gazebo structures are about a half mile apart and near the beach area. Notice Sierra lazing around in the parking lot. The upstairs picnic area gives a nice 180 degree overlook of the bay and park. Restrooms and water is available down stairs. Occasional friendly folks stop by while just meandering the area. This particular place gets you folks from all over the USA during the winter Texan times of the winter. It is fun to talk to all the “foreigners” from other states and countries.

The OFM studios are scattered all over the country. That , of course, means that we get to try to have tooooo much fun all over the country.

Beach Park Fun

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-31-2020

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It was a great start to the day. A touch cool but warming up fast. The sun was coming up fast and we missed the sunrise but the early morning sun was still dramatic in out eyes. We had chosen the beach park for the morning walk and hurried over there.  Sierra had barely gotten us into the park when the OFM just had to grab this first picture.  It was changing very rapidly and two minutes later it was not near as nice.

A couple of minutes later Sierra had gotten parked at a good location near the start of the beach and today’s walking. This is how the whole day looked and by noon it was 70+ and wonderful.

The OFM got us over to the start of the beach walk and decided we needed to show our readers how crowded it was on this Saturday morning. 

We got on along at a good pace since the OFM body was doing well for a change.  In fact we ended up with over three miles covered today. There were all sorts of things to distract the OFM but we kept him moving briskly for the most part. Photo ops were relegated to 30 seconds and get moving now!  We were nearly the first person on the beach this morning but not quite. There is a runner that runs most morning right along the water. That runner was a couple of minutes  ahead of us.

Here is one of the distracting things we found.  The small salt water wavelets were making foam piles on the beach sand.  We took several pictures in attempting to get a photo that showed the bright sparkles. This was the best we could get and it is fairly neat but not quite as bright sparkled as the real thing was.

We came back along the beach and then headed on along more of the park. The morning was so pleasant  the OFM did not want to quit even after we had been walking for an hour and a half. But we had already scheduled more to be done and we climbed into Sierra and went on with the rest of the wonderful day searching for more places for trying to have tooooo much fun.

Bird Nesting Area

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-30-2020

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Once again too much stuff going on, so we chose the bird nesting area the OFM circled on his one mile walk this morning for tonight’s blog.

The bird nesting area is closed to folks each year while a few hundred birds make nests and raise their children to adult hood. We have seen it in action several times and it can be quite interesting. But today there are no birds there and the powers that be are working on getting it ready for the feathered visitors.

Hurricane Harvey destroyed the last viewing platform.  Now a new nicer one is in progress. It over looks the main area and can hold about 8 camera tripods at one time we guess.

The fencing provided to protect the area is a wire rope nailed to 8“ posts about 2 feet high. To the best of our memory it was put in about 8-10 years ago.  In this next picture you can see the temporary repair they had to make at one spot where the wire rope has already rusted through. Salt water corrosion is a mean enemy.

At another location in the area, some blue crabs had been turned into a meal for some of the birds it looked like. This claw was about 6“ long and the body was nearby. Lots of signs of birds having a feast was all around the spot. The claw is from a female blue crab. How does the OFM know it was a female crab? Well he has been around the salt water events since 1946. His mother taught him that the female blue crabs have red claw tips like they are wearing red fingernail polish.  His observations since then have found that to be true.

And at another waterfront spot was this unusual scene. A dragon fly was floating on the light green water of the bay. After watching it for a few minutes we decided it was dead.  It still makes an interesting picture we think.

And there you have another way we enjoyed  trying to have tooooo much fun.

Beautiful Sunny Day

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-29-2020

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It was cool to cold the first thing this morning when the Teams headed to the beach area to walk. The wind was strong and the chill too much. But the high water from the hurricane was gone and the flags were waving goodbye to the storm effects.

So we meandered the beach park inside Sierra and did some looking around. This picture of the wooden pier in the beach park shows the upcoming bright sunlight that showed up mid morning. By 1400 it was 70F and very nice.

When we left the beach park we moseyed on down to the boat entry to the harbor. The usual guards were on duty there to announce any arrivals.

The highlight of today was going to Tackle Town and purchasing a new fishing rod for our use. Now we can have two rods with different baits on them ready to use when an occasion calls for quick changes.

Then when we came out of Tackle Town a higher highlight came on. The restaurant with the best chicken tacos in the county is a two minute walk down the sidewalk from the fishing gear store.  Yep the OFM destroyed a wonderful plate of chicken tacos and trimmings. Ole Big Belly managed to get back to Sierra to head out for more fun.

Last year certain things were so undesirable to the OFM that he had told many folks he was not coming back to Rockport until things changed for the better. Our running around since we got back has found that most of the objections have been resolved.  Things in this area are looking up it seems. At least it is improved enough to stay a little longer this year even though the personal reason we came back is now finished. We will still have to see how things work out, but it looks promising.

Now we need to rest so tomorrow we can continue the rampaging and maybe get some miles on the OFM’s shoes over at the Community Park. Who knows what the OFM will do in the name of trying to have tooooo much fun.

Fish Caught

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-28-2020

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We need to give The OFM a day off to rest. This is the second day in a row he pooped out and had to have a short nap. The photos are piling up in the computer waiting for their turn at being edited. Today we added several more.

Anyway it was a fish catching day as well as a roaming around day. The camera was a busy little devil all day nearly.

Enough of that, let’s get on with today. We did some shopping and sightseeing. There has been a lot of changes since we left  here late last January and we are still finding new changes. However the OFM did take some time for fishing right after lunch. Here is one of the two identical 18 inch speckled trout he caught.

Then on another excursion down by the Fulton bridge we got to see this nice sized catch by a very nice fellow. This is a nice sized black drum and definitely will be worth eating when they take it off the grill tonight. We think there might be a bit of a party at his place.

Then late afternoon The OFM went down by the wooden pier. He chunked the lure out to get a kink out of the line and while reeling the lure in this small 14 inch red fish rushed out of a weed bed to hit the lure. 

We were surprised to have several more red fish come out of the weed beds and chase the lure on later casts also.  Several other folks were seen landing fish at many places around the waterfront today. We guess the fish must have been feeling frisky after the cool front came through.

The OFM got in a good bit of walking today but it was in several smaller chunks. It is in the plans for another trip to the Community Park track and walk that track the opposite direction to get pictures to add to the piles of pictures on the computer already.

One thing for sure, there is a lot of trying to have tooooo much fun still out there around town.

Beach Walking

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-27-2020

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The OFM is beat to a pulp with all the doing things we did today. So tonight we will present part of our Walk On The Beach event. The Rockport Beach is a man made beach that is about .9 miles long. It is frequently very heavily used but today it was nearly empty. That was probably due to the very bad for this area weather.

It was a little over cast, very cold at 62F with a chilly north wind and a week day. The OFM thought it was just right for a good adventure walk. He was right. We shot about 60 photos to edit.

Since he needed to get  back into some decent walking exercise, we chose the beach for the fun of it.

We started at the far inside the park end at the famous wooden pier where the OFM catches loads of fish at times. This is the view from the starting point.

The beach is a man-made beach. The beach material (sand) comes from inland about 100 miles away. It is sand with a bit of gravel mixed in it. The mix is very comfortable for walking barefoot in.  The gravel gathers in rows on the beach from the wave action. This is the OFM foot on one of the gravel rows to give you an idea of the texture and size of the particulate.

During our walk today there was a minor influx of jelly fish washing ashore. They were smaller than the Teams had seen in a long time. Here is the infamous OFM toe again.

Another interesting item is these yellow seeds. The green seeds are mangrove plant seeds.  The yellow seeds are shaped like the mangrove seeds but we have never seen yellow ones before. So naturally we had to have a picture here tonight.

 Also today there was a good number of critter homes (shells) washing ashore. Here is a nice looking home right in the wash line. Some one must have been at home since the shell was blowing bubbles. We liked this picture quite a bit.

For the whole walk the OFM got in a bit over two miles and he could tell he had not been out doing proper walking in a little over a week. He needs to get back at it so he will be in better shape for trying to have tooooo  much  fun.

High Tides

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-26-2020

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The weather did not know what it was going to do this morning. Bright and sunny or cloudy and wet or windy or not. Check out this early morning weather picture from near the wooden pier in the Rockport Beach Park.

Apparently the new hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico is pushing water into the Rockport area. When the tides are normal the pier stair shown in this picture goes down to the dry sand of the beach. The flooding sea water was about a foot deep at the bottom of the stair this morning.

Later in the day we headed down to the Light House Lakes area to see what had changed. Not much was changed. However the higher tides had flooded a bunch of the small dunes area. As you can see from the picture the weather turned out bright and sunny. We are really glad we are not in the Denver Co. area instead of here on the Texas lower coast.

We visited with lots of old friends and toured a big chunk of the area to see what had changed since we left here late January.  There has been a good bit more changes than we thought there would be. However we still have plenty of space to rampage around trying to have tooooo much fun.

What Is It?

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-25-2020

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Mostly everything that was planned for today did not happen. Hip and knee pains during the night kept sleep and real rest to a minimum. The morning walk planned to get sunrise flower pictures did not come anywhere close to happening. Sometimes being OLD just gets in the way.

Since the good stuff was not happening the OFM Fishing Team took over and we went to the harbor for gentle fishing and letting the Ibuprofen do its work. It helped but there was no fish biting anything we threw into the water.

So we headed home to the Castle and did laundry and ate lunch, which included two more Ibuprofen tablets.  Finally some relief came into the OFM body.  But to be careful we headed over to a friends campsite and had a huge long visit with several others in the area. WOW that was fun.

We have a new header plant picture for the week of a plant at the Community Park that we took during yesterday’s walk. If anyone knows what it is please let the OFM Plant Fools know the name of the plant.  It made a great header picture we think. In the meantime we are going to take it easy tonight. Planning on a painting is what we hope to accomplish tonight and tomorrow. It has been over two weeks since any painting effort has been expended and that is way too long.

We are still getting organized for this area of saltwater fun instead of pine trees and marsh of north Alabama. There is a big difference between those areas in the ways of trying to have tooooo much fun.

Fun Folks

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-24-2020

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We got a good start this morning and had a busy day. After the early morning computer work we headed to the marina area to walk. OOOPS way too many folks and a really chilly wind ripping across the area.

On back through town we went to the Community Park walking trail.  At least the trees sheltered us from the chilly wind. This park trail system has loops through the trees to keep it interesting. Here is a map of the park.

We did the blue trail with intentions of two laps for over three miles. There were so many camera distractions we managed one lap and 45 pictures for inspiration for more art efforts NOT in a coloring book. Then it was time to have lunch. The OFM has not yet been through all the pictures but we hope it generates several nice paintings.  Paintings are a lot of fun for the members of the OFM Art Society.  That is the newly formed group that is a member of the OFM Teams.

After all that nonsense we finally got started down the trail. This is the same park and trails we have covered many times in the OFMAdventures blog. But this year we are here in the Fall to see what we can see. Very quickly the Teams camera went to work photographing inspirations. The “leafy” scenes were in abundance during most of the walking. Those pics have not been processed yet so they will have to wait for their future exciting opportunities to improve blogs.

However when we got to the duck/turtle pond, the OFM did slip over to the side of the trail for a nice picture of it.

The rest of the trail wound around and provided many more photograph opportunities. When we got to Sierra the OFM Walking Team was ready to take a rest so we left to check the in town pier for “population”.  It was getting crowded. Soon to be too crowded for Covid-19 spacing.

For the rest of the afternoon we did a bunch of marina piddling around ( fishing) and visited with several folks visiting the area.  Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez were particularly interesting to visit since we discussed RVing at length. Thank you folks the OFM Team really enjoyed the long visit.

Now with pictures to edit tomorrow and more adventures to go and do, you can be sure we will have a great effort at trying to have tooooo much fun.

Great Sierra News

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-23-2020

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It was a good start to a worrisome day of Sierra’s repair. After breakfast we hit up the marina area for about 30 minutes of fishing before we head to the repair shop. Nothing special was happening until the last cast. The large speckled trout hit the lure and the fight was on. It was a larger than usual trout.  After the OFM got the trout flopped onto the parking surface the trout looked even larger.

When things calmed down a bit and the fish was unhooked it turned out to be 18 inches long and fat. It was definitely a nice size fish but guess what Castle still had the camera in it.  So the fish went back into the water and we headed to the repair shop for some Sierra surgery.

We got to the shop a few minutes ahead of schedule and the repair bay opened up right on time and in Sierra went. Rex, a well proven mechanic from previous repairs, went right to work on the alignment planned. However he quickly found that the alignment was not the problem.

Both of the lower ball joints on Sierra were loose and worn. So the OFM approved replacing them. New joints quickly arrived. In the mean time Rex started the disassembly required of the front suspension parts.  The OFM asked how the brakes and rotors looked for wear. The disk pads showed more than 60% pad left. The rotors showed no significant wear. The other parts all passed with flying colors. The only trouble was the two lower suspension ball joints.

They were soon replaced. Rex did a careful alignment test and found the alignment still in specification, but just barely.  So a full fledged alignment was done on Sierra.

When Rex was finished, Sierra had had basically the entire front suspension assembly on both sides carefully examined and now was ready for another 100,000 miles of running and playing. WOW we like that. Total repairs cost was $403.

A big surprise awaited the OFM when we drove off to get some lunch.  Sierra drove a lot better than it had been driving. Sierra was a lot firmer to the road than it had been.  This was a real nice feeling for certain. Now we REALLY can feel comfortable that the brakes and front suspension is ready for more running and playing.

After lunch we went by the “fishing gear “ garage sale  that a couple of friends were helping at. We visited for a little while and headed to get some new lures. They were out of stock.

Later we went back to the old friends RV and visited for a couple of hours which put a wonderful end to a fantastic day of trying to have tooooo much fun

HOT AND SWEATY

 Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Adventure Date: 10-22-2020

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 After a bad nights unrest the OFM headed to Whataburger for egg and potato  rolled in a soft tortilla.  They were wonderful.

Then it was back to the campground and move the Castle. It was not a hard job but it was a HOT AND SWEATY job. It took about 45 minutes with a couple of cool off breaks.  Winter has not even started to approach here yet.

We got it all done. The good part is the sites are not crowded near each other. Here is a picture of the new location.

After that a light meal was in order and a nap since the OFM was not feeling decent from the high humidity and 90F.

When he woke from the nap, we headed to the waterfront to do a bit of fishing and shade seeking. The OFM ended up in a great  long (2 hours+) visit with a nice couple from San Antonio. We saw good old Joe from Missouri catch one nice sized trout.  After the long visit, the OFM worked the water over pretty heavily with no fish bothering any of his lures.

Back at the Castle another nap captured him and he feels a lot better tonight.

Tomorrow Sierra heads into the shop to find our what is causing some serious weird tire wear on the front driver side tire. You should not let front tires of your tow vehicle blow out while towing. It can be more excitement than most human hearts can stand. Hopefully Sierra will be well soon and the OFM can relax a little as he is figuring out what is next in the search for trying to have tooooo much fun.