The End of The Road

Last Friday our phone rang with news that our Rv had been sold. The buyer is a man and his wife from Whitney, TX. They plan on going full time and being workcampers. They are coming from on older and smaller Class C to a 36 foot Class A. Our best to them and we wish them many happy miles and days ahead.

To our RV family that we had to leave, please look for the Pace Arrow without its rear stripes. It should be the only one on the road. Say "hi" to the new owners and full timers.

We still have a Datastorm tripod system with a 6000 modem for sale, CHEAP! $200 and its yours. We were dish 2321 on the datastorm.com website. You can email us through this blog or use dpillers028@yahoo.com.

Drive safe and stop often as there is a world to see at the next exit. Go back through our blog and see where we have been. This was one of the best decisions we ever made.

Seeya!!

I Am Back Home

I have arrived back in Fort Worth and my and Shirley's traveling days have come to an end. The rv is possibly sold to man interested in it. He has had a walk thru and driven the rv and indicated he would go to his bank. Hopefully that is the case or it will go back to Motorhome Specialists again.

With our traveling coming to an end, this blog will cease to be updated. There is lots to read and see of our travels and some interesting places we visited. I encourage you the reader to plan your trip and take the next exit and see the sights you will otherwise pass by.

Drive safe and stop often and enjoy the sights.

Good bye from the two of us.

The Status of The Blog

I got this from the couple Peggy and David. I have reprinted only part of it.

Happy Belated Birthday! I would have been on time but had not looked at your blog for a while...you had not been keeping up to date on it!

Happy New Years
Peggy & David
Cheyenne WY


The blog is not updated on any basis as the 2008 RV Travels blog is the one I update. This is where I'm at and the one I post.

I do appreciate your comments and anyone else that wishes to chim in as long as its not a commercial comment.

So go the HERE for the current blog and thanks for stopping by. I really do like to hear from any readers.

On The Road Again

My honey, SO, you know who, got on me for not having today's update. So here it is!

I'm parkd for the night at the rest stop on US I37 north of Corpus on my way to the RGV. We arrived here after 6 long hard hours of driving. I gassed up just before here and put in $125.00 at $2.44.9. This will get me to the park in Mercedes, TX tomorrow, about 4 hours more.

We will stay till the end of February and then head home.Its 73* here and will be windy tomorrow as a cold front is coming thru. Hope I can keep on deiving and not have to stop because of the wind.

That's it from here, I did the up date DEAR!

Now see where I'm at by going to this blog.

We Got New Tires On The RV Today

This is the changing of the tires. I got the price from T & W tire in Burleson, TX. They quoted me a price of $2440 mounted with taxes, stems, balancing and sales tax. It was $120 less per tire than Camping World. May not be the lowest price but it was for here. I got Goodyear G670 245R70, 19.5 with 2308 date code on all tires. Its ready to roll.




The price of the RV went up with the new tires. All that is left for this RV is the new brakes at 90k miles. If someone were to buy this it is a good deal with the amount of work we have had to do to the RV since we got it in 4/05.



These pics were taken with the cell phone and its about as good as it gets. So be happy with the pics and it is a little history of the new tires being installed on that day, 10/23/08. The mileage is 82683.



If your traveling like I see so many with the cheaper gas, be careful out there and have fun.

Another Old Home in Fort Worth

This one is next door to the other one we show. Both are old mansions of owners of bygone days. The could have been bankers, lawyers, cattle barons and oil men. But they are gone and so is the generations after them. This home is just a well kept in appearance as it appears.

When we drove by the people you see were setting up chairs on the front lawn for what looks like a wedding. You can gust see that to the far right of the picture. the car in the fore ground is a guest arriving. It does look like an ideal place to have a wedding since her daddy is footing the bill. One sure bet in today's climate, it will be another marriage in the future for some of them.

There are a very few of these homes left and then they to will be gone someday. The Berkley edition on the near south side is full of large older homes of the 20-30's. There are blocks and blocks of them. I would put the price range in today's market at 433k to 700k. They are mostly very large two story and a few three story homes. In this time period most of these homes had partial to full basements. The square footage would be in the 8k to 15k range on some of them. Just very large. But there are some smaller two and single story homes mixed in. And with the natural gas drilling we see in the area, these same homes will be getting royalty checks in the mail should the proposed drilling permit be passed.

Not much else to say, I did get a call from the Hobbs, NM police about my complaint. I left it that my credit card bank would be doing any follow up and not me since it was or would have been their money. I got one lawsuit now, sure don't need a second.

Gas in the area runs from #2.35 to $2.70. Yes, you read it right, TWO DOLLARS AND CHANGE. Go RV'ing and drive safe. I will be getting new shoes on our coach this week if the weather stays dry. $372 for Goodyear G670 series, load range "g". That's a hundred twenty less than Camping World and the same warranty by Goodyear. See ya down the road later.

And if John and Marie still read this blog, see ya when you get there.

I Got My Refund

There are a few, and its a very few, of the old mansions left in Fort Worth. We litterly stumbled upon this one. Its located just west of the downtown area and off 10th street. Its the current home of a law firm and its just magnificent in its well kept state. Simply outstanding. For those that know of Thistle Hill mansion this is about as large a house but on 1/2 the size of the lot.

I received an email from the hotel corp and there was included a refund notice from the general manager of the hotel that I was getting a refund. The was after my email to corp and before the letters were delivered. With the letters will be proof I was not there the night in question. But its a little to late for the GM.