Karin Bartsch's Journals

We arrived here as planned. The resort is almost empty except of permanents. The reason is the summer heat in these areas of Texas in the months of June/July/August. RV'ers with a bigger wallet seek out places in higher elevations, but we have the firm resolve to stick to our membership places in order to save. All we had to pay here for 7 days was $ 21.00 total  for 50 AMP electric.

We stay inside during the day, reading and writing. To give Dieter something to do I was able to convince him to establish his own website. It is also a good work-out for the brain. For his fingers it is hard work because he never had the opportunity to learn typewriting or work within the internet. But it is never too late to learn anything.

Here we have WiFi free and he can use his laptop. 

To have the second refrigerator/freezer back is a relieve. Yesterday we drove 18 miles to Hillsboro to shop at Super-Wamart. Despite all jokes about that place, it is and will be our main shopping source. Basis foods are better priced than anywhere else. We had to stock up again on Milk, Butter, Yogurt, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Apples, Lettuce, Chicken Quarters ( 60 cent per pound - very fresh) and other items important to cook from scratch. Of course, the prices in the other departments are pleasing too. When we left, we were minus 200 Dollars. Good thing is that we had to pay only $ 100.00 deductable for the fridge cooling unit, the entire price incl. labor has been 1,300.00. Now we just hope that the second fridge gives up its life of sofar 10 years before our warranty contract runs out at the end of this year, which cannot be renewed because of the age of the Alfa Gold Trailer.

To end the posting for this week, I will show you 2 pictures. The first one is a turtle which made its way through the park in Huntsville to reach a pond, and the second one shows you what our double refrigerators/freezers look like. I do not need to take a photo of our unit here because the surroundings are not out of the ordinary. The neighboring RV's are farther away, it feels like we have the place for ourselves.