2017 Lessons Learned First Week

Lessons Learned Living in a Rectangle

*We are now one week into our trip starting off with a couple of days in the Cap Rock Canyon Texas State park and long the way…
*Small museums are still a thing Blue Spruce museum was unfortunately closed
*Dirt devils dance on the fields being turned for the next crop
*Red Earth rises like smoke behind the tractors turning the earth
*Corn and cotton are in the fields
*Turkey Tx is the home of Bob Wills
*Prairie dogs are endlessly entertaining
*Bison at your Rectangle door will keep you inside….they do not move quickly and they are REALLY big
*Our trusty truck LilRed honked? then honked again? someone trying to get into it? No, just a woodpecker on LilRed pecking at the windshield wiper…guess bugs were there? But LilRed was “crying out” and I had to make woodpecker move on. It was a very large orange headed one but no-one or thing will I allow to hurt LilRed our trusty companion
*If you are in Cap Rock Canyon State park try and get the camping spot 35…prefect view of the canyon in the distance, prairie dogs up close and Bison very close too. No other spot has this view
*Moving on and the overnight at the next “RV Park” was shall we say was OK for a pull in and sleep, not much more in Clayton, New Mexico. The park was very old and when you are woken in the middle of the night with the electricity going off and on because luckily you always use a serge protector we laughed and finally got up at 3am to have coffee thanks to our generator and see the sun rise.
*BUT Clayton does have a very good Dairy Queen! and then David says he has spent the night in Clayton before with a group of bikers…who knew? (things wives learn)
*Learned that when going down the road and you stop to have a bite to eat and you see liquid on the floor it is not always water or oil and looking up and down inside and out for where it might be coming from …maybe from the road; the tires; or the slide out into The Rectangle? Then you taste the liquid and find it is very sticky, very sweet…rule out water or oil…follow the stream to the pantry to find a jar of peach jam leaking onto the floor…hmmm it is usually something simple.
*Road construction continues to be everywhere. More lessons to come.