'19/#7 A Night On The Road

We spent two nights in Livingston Texas getting our satellite receiver set up. Customer service with DirecTV has taken a real down turn since being taken over by AT&T. Stereotypical overseas outsourcing made the process excruciating. Then the process for returning the old receiver again was anything but efficient. What was supposed to be a simple drop off at FedEx wound up costing us around $20. Later customer service from AT&T told us to go back to FedEx and get the package back! Like that was going to happen. Maybe we were supposed to chase down the truck and hi-jack it to get the receiver back. Now we have to rely on the incompetents at DirecTV to credit the money to our account. I'm not holding my breath.

In Livingston we stayed at the Escapees RV park. We are Escapees members and take advantage of the hospitality shown members when ever we pass through the area. Other than the TV issues we enjoyed the down time and the breakfasts that they have to help support Escapees C.A.R.E. This is a rehabilitation  system tailored to RVers who for one reason or another can't travel and/or take care of themselves. It is another case of RVers taking care of RVers.

We left Livingston knowing that it was going to rain all day. It did rain, and thunder, and lightning, and got windy but we kept on going as safely as possible. Then the weather reports started talking about possible tornadoes. Shortly thereafter tornado reports started popping up around us and the wind really picked up. That is when we got off the road and found a safe place to wait it out. Luckily it only took about 15-20 minutes before it all passed. We just recently heard about two tornadoes that set down near the area we were in. Unfortunately there were 40 injuries, 4 missing and 3 dead. We feel very lucky and send our condolences to those affected.

Speaking of weather....three days ago Mary was complaining about the heat in Pharr TX. The temperatures were in the 90's every day. Well today we arrived in Sunset TX and the afternoon temperature is 50 degrees and the over night low is expected to be in the upper 30's and Mary is still not happy. What to do? What to do? I guess we will turn on the heat and soldier on here in our home in Sunset TX because....

Home is where we park it,
Frank and Mary