'24/#8 And Here We Are

 I didn't start blogging about our current journey until almost two weeks in, so it has taken me this long to catch up. Well here we are today, current and in "real" time. The last blog was from Marshall Texas where we stayed for six days. Since this summer's travels will involve a lot of actual traveling we decided to make time for periodic stops just to rest. We didn't want to burn ourselves out on driving so much that we didn't enjoy the trip.

We left Marshall after doing some of the chores that are part of the RVing lifestyle. The usual laundry and house cleaning, and the RV specific dumping and rinsing the waste water holding tanks. Sounds disgusting but everything is set up so that it is a civilized process. Then it was back on the road.

We are now in Livingston Texas. This the home of the Escapees organization that was formed by Rvers for Rvers. They have numerous campgrounds around the country, organize national and regional events, and provide services for those of us whose homes are on wheels. The most important service to us is the mail forwarding service. Many people ask "How do you get your mail when you travel?" and this is the answer. All our mail comes to Livingston Texas and when we are someplace and want our mail they will send it to whatever address we wish. 

Since we knew we were coming here we haven't had our mail forwarded for almost a month and planned on picking it up in person. Being on the road doesn't stop us from shopping so there were a number of packages included. Three trips from the window to the truck and we had all our mail. It was time to take it back to the trailer and sort through it all. I thought it would take days but we were done in an hour or so. In addition to packages and the usual bills and correspondences we also had a stack of magazines. Lots of reading material for a while.

Well here we are, all caught up, in our home in Livingston because.....

Home is where we park it,

Frank and Maniaci