22 – 27 October 2024

We crammed as many trips to view real estate as possible in this week knowing we were leaving. Overall, we viewed over 50 properties in the 2.5 weeks and none of them were “the one”. A couple were close but were priced above what we wanted to pay along with the needed modifications to make it perfect. Leslie’s boot, socks and sole came in from Amazon. She hates the boot, but her foot does not hurt as much and with the sole on the other foot, she is not limping. We squeezed in another trip to Lost Oaks to top off our wine stash. We met with Leslie’s Friend Tiffany and her husband David in downtown on Thursday. They are considering going fulltime RVing and had a lot of questions about how to make it work. We had a fun time discussing the fulltime life! On Saturday night we had dinner with Diane, Donnie, Matt and Renay to finally celebrate Diane’s 80th birthday, cake and all. It was fun catching up. David put in a lot of work hours

14 – 21 October 2024

David finally had time to work on the hitch and added the new spacers. The hitch is definitely fitting tighter than before. Hopefully it will stop the banging. We enjoyed dinner with Leslie’s childhood friends Billy and Robin on Sunday. They have been looking for a house for over two years and had just closed on one. They gave us some great advice on the area. Our relator had us running around to a view bunch of houses, which helped us better understand what we liked and didn’t like. But none of the houses fit the bill. Leslie’s foot was still hurting, even with the special shoe the doctor had put her in. So, she sent a copy of her x-rays to Lauren. Lauren looked them over and told her she needed to be in a boot, not a shoe or it would never heal. We got on Amazon and ordered the boot, compression socks and a sole to add under the shoe on her other foot so she would be at and even height. David put in a lot of work hours.

6 – 13 October 2024 Busy Times

Our relator has been sending us dozens of listings. We have also been looking on our own. So far, nothing that makes us interested. Leslie went to the orthopedic doctor which confirmed the diagnoses and provided a special shoe to wear while the recovers. She will need 6-8 weeks to fully heal. Leslie also went to see her knee doctor after having Lunch with her mother. We enjoyed lunch with our friend June on Sunday and caught up. David put in a lot of work hours.

30 September – 6 October 2024 Catching up

We didn’t waste any time diving into our itinerary for our visit. David saw his dentist and spent several long day’s working; Leslie visited her dentist and doctor. We found out Leslie’s foot, that she hurt in Estes Park when Keira knocked her off the stairs, has a fracture that will need to be looked at by an orthopedic (next week). We had dinner with our friends Rick, Jim and Kelley at the new location for King Tut. On Sunday, we met up with a real estate agent we were connected with through Zillow. We toured three new build houses on two acre lots in Granbury. It was interesting to see the new houses under construction but none of them appealed to us and none of them had decent views. But it gave us a start and we like our relator, Laurie. It gave us a chance to explain to her what we are looking for in our forever home. After we left Laurie, we drove around the area on our own to see what is there. We then headed over to our favorite local winery, Lost Oak, for a glass of wine and to pick up some favorites for the road.

29 September 2024 Birthday get together

 Cynthia and Felix were in Dallas to go to the SMU game, so we conspired together to drive over to Donny and Diane’s Sunday Morning with donuts to surprise Diane for her 80^th Birthday (and David’s 65^th). We spent several hours visiting. Everyone looked good and are doing well. After tiring them out with family gossip, we joined Cynthia and Felix for an early dinner at Mi Cocina’s before they headed back to the Woodlands and we headed home to Alvarado. Unfortunately, we forgot to take any pictures.

28 September 2024 Wichita Falls to Alvarado TX.

 As we expected, the traffic through downtown Fort Worth was crazy, even in the early afternoon. The 153 mile drive from Wichita Falls was uneventful. We decided to try a different RV Park this time to try and avoid some of the horrible traffic due to construction at I-20/I-820/US287 intersection. So we are staying at the Texas RV Ranch ($853 monthly rate including $200 electric charge ($28.44 per day)) on US67 in Alvarado. It’s about the same distance out of town as the Texan RV Ranch we normally stay at but has a more direct route into Fort Worth on I-35 or into Dallas on US67. We were placed in the older section of the park (There is a large new area further back from US67 that is really nice) in a pull through. The site is plenty long, all the hook ups work well, but the landscaping has been completely taken over by weeds that have not been mowed in a while. We also are having issues getting the WiFi to work. They have a pond, but it is not being aeriated so it stinks. It will work for a month, but we will probably not stay here again. 

Our site at the Texas RV Park

27 September 2024 Amarillo to Wichita Falls TX.

 When we were planning our route back to DFW, we decided to break up the drive from Amarillo to DFW. At 365 miles, it’s a really long day and the scenery along US287 is pretty boring on this stretch. At 246 miles, Wichita Falls seemed like a good stopping point. We stayed at the Wichita Falls TV Park ($54 per night with GSC) for one night. This is by far the most dog friendly RV park we have been to. They had a really nice leashed dog walking area with sculptures and simulated fire hydrants for the fur babies to enjoy. They also had a really nice fenced in dog park to let the dogs off leash to run around. The dog park had nice lush grass to be easy on the paws. We did not feel like cooking, se we picked up a great pizza and salads from Mia’s Italian Bistro near the RV Park.  

Our site in Wichita Falls RV Park

Keira in the leash dog park

The off leash dog park