Trip07

South. I mean East! Went east. I know, it's raining to the east. But it's not like we really decided. It just happened.

We slept in late, took a walk, did some birding, had a run, had lunch, pulled out, hooked up, and were out of there. In the early afternoon.

We had the most comfortable birding yet. A great campsite with birds flitting all around the motorhome. We got our binoculars, sat in the big seats in the front, tilted them back, rested our elbows on the armrests, and went to work. Twenty-two different birds. All of them from warm and dry with hot coffee and snacks. But wait! It gets better! One of those birds was a never-before-seen Harris' sparrow. That gets us to 284. Two hundred eighty-four birds on our list. We have been close to three hundred for several years now. Wonder if we could make it this trip? Probably not. It's hard to find a new bird very often now. We got the most important one, though. The green kingfisher. Boy was it fun to get that one. Now we'll have to pick a new "most important one to get".

The co-pilot navigated us here. Not only does it provide all the directions and tell you how you're doing, it provides a continuously updated ETA. Judy wants a bumper sticker: "GPS is my Co-Pilot".

Still no suspects in the great cream cheese incident. Guess it's a mystery that will never be solved.

We had a laundry detergent incident today. Liquid laundry detergent all over the bathroom sink cabinet. There was a bottle of laundry detergent there, but it appears undamaged. We banished it to the bathtub for a couple hours and no more soap appeared outside the bottle. Another mystery. This one does not involve pets as suspects though.

Left the inland parks and drove east through Victoria to the coast. Here we are in Port Lavaca. Cool and rainy, right on the water in the RV camping for a Texas State Fishing Pier. Full hookups, so we can take long hot showers, wash our hair, do a couple loads of laundry, and a little cat vacuuming. Downright decadent. A 100 mile day.

We've been using a humidifier to combat the cool dry weather. Doesn't look like we'll need that again for a while.

Update on the mobile office project. We figured out how to identify all the rural nonprofit organizations in Colorado, and began our mailing to them in November. The response was underwhelming. Very quiet. We kept mailing. Then, in the week after Christmas, we started getting some calls. In the two days before we left the office, we got three inquiries, one of which wanted a proposal. Just got an email from Jamie today, telling us there are five more that want proposals. Maybe we will be doing more traveling around Colorado. Something to look forward to on our return.

We'll check out the wetlands bird watching boardwalk in the morning. Last time we were here we got to see some roseate spoonbills.

Still have to pick a direction to go next. The decision got easier, though. We're right on the water, so we eliminated one of the direction options, and we just came from another one. We'll go north along the coast, or south along the coast.

The forecast is for warming across South Texas.