Hey fellow Pods, Nuestro Pod here, I’m back with thisweekends trip.  Yes, my owners let metell about my trip this weekend.  Thispast week my TV had to have some work done on the wiring for the brakecontroller.  Apparently, the ground wirehad come off and a relay had been shorted out. With that fixed we were ready to load and leave.  Now that daylight savings time is back, wecan leave for Adolpho Thomae’ county park in Arroyo City, TX,and arrive with plenty of time to set up. As most of you know you follow ourtrips, the park is a short 45-55 min trip. On the way there we had sort of forgotten we had not put in anything fordinner.  Fortunately, there was a Subwayon the way to the park, where we picked up a sub for dinner, although theydidn’t offer me any.  We arrived with nofurther delays an got set up in a real nice site. (See pictures).  It was a little on the windy side but it feltgood it my R-dome.  My owners ate dinnerin the dome and sat just enjoying the atmosphere.  I was a clear night so I could see the stars,boy there sure are a lot of them, what a gorgeous site.

 The night was fine until about 5:30 when some bird starting“singing” in the tree outside my window. Then the fishermen started arriving with their boats roaring down thepark road to the launching ramp.  We allwere able to get back to sleep for a little while (9:30 am).  We had a great day of reading, walking andjust relaxing.  As the evening progressedthe humidity came (humidity 60+ % temp 77 and 10 pm) up to the point it wassome what uncomfortable, so my owner turned on my A/C for the first time thisyear.  Of course I provide tons of nicecool dry air.  We all watched a couple ofDVD’s we keep in the entertainment center, Papillion and Rain Man, oldies butgoodies.  Tonight, my owner decided thatit would be better if they left the A/C on. Because I make a fair amount of noise when my A/C compressor cycles onand off they also leave the fan on.  Thisprovides a constant “white noise?” and drowns out any noise from bird orvehicles.  All was good with theworld.  Unfortunately, this bliss wasrudely shattered about 5:30 am when, through no fault of my own, my fire alarmwent off.  Needless to say my owners werequite startled and awoke rather quickly. They checked and everything seemed OK. All seemed to be in order, Paul thought it might have been a power blip,little did he know.  Just as they weregetting back to sleep it went off again. They checked everything again and all appeared OK.  This time they finally figured out that thebattery in the alarm was low or dead. (Note to owners, change alarm battery each year so this won’t happenagain)  Well, everyone got back to sleepand finally dragged themselves out of bed about 10 am. Lazy slugs. 

 Again had a great day, although overcast in the AM itcleared off in the afternoon.  Pauldecided this might be a good time to backwash the black & grey tanks.  This is the first time he has done this soI’m not really sure if I’m going to like it. Anyhow, he got the Flush King connected properly and the process wasquite painless, in fact it kind of tickled. It got out some TP which had not gone through before so I think it did agreat job.  With that done and chemicalsput back in my tanks it was time to pack up and head home.  Another great weekend with my owners.

 Look for my next installment, Nuestro Pod gets a swaycontrol device.

Nuestro Pod

Happy Podding

Site 27 Adolpho Thomae County Park Arroyo City, TX

Close view of light hanging between the tree and top of the R-Dome

We love our R-Dome. Let you be outside without the little fly bug we get here in S TX

Nuestro Pod through the Mesquite Tress

Mesquite tree blossoms

This wildflower is about 1/2 in wide. Small but pretty