Category: Travel

Sophie's Tire Pressure Monitor System

With the new Borg valve stems installed, today we attached the tire pressure monitoring sensors to the valve stems. It is an easy chore, just screw them on the valve stems and the RVI Command Center instantly recognized…

By robrose

Sophie Gets Borg Valve Stems

When we were at Quartzsite in January at the LTV gathering we learned about a much better way to make checking the air pressure and adding tire monitor sending units to the tires on MB Sprinter units which is the…

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Mineral Wells Fossil Park Day 2

Back to the fossil park again. We arrived shortly after the gates opened at 8 AM and as before, we were the only ones there. We have read reviews of the fossil park where people complain about how hot it is. If people…

By robrose

Sophie's Bed, Now You See It, Now You Don't

The reason we like Sophie, our RV (Caravan), which is a LTV Unity RL. The RL is the acronym for Rear Lounge. What makes it so nice is the bed which is a murphy bed that pivots up against the rear wall when not in use.…

By robrose

Mineral Wells Fossil Park

Situated to the west of the Texas town of Mineral Wells is a very unique park where you can collect fossils that lived in the bottom of a sea some 300 million years ago. We spent time here a year ago and she who never…

By robrose

A $40 a Night RV (Caravan) Park

There was gravel and dirt with a small small piece of artificial turf (likely from the local high school football field when new artificial turf was installed) at the last RV park we stayed at. This park has grass and…

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A $35 a Night RV (Caravan) Park

Many people would say this is "not the ideal RV (caravan) site. It's bounded on two sides by park roads, one the main entrance road, and the site is absolutely tiny. We are only here when we are not out and about. We…

By robrose

A Riding Mower Graveyard

Just down the road from the RV park where we are staying is what you see above, dozens and dozens of riding mowers. It is a small engine and lawnmower repair place, with our best guess being this is their parts…

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Fitzhugh Brewery

A change of pace today. The weather has been Texas summer hot, with today being no exception. My wife is not much of a beer drinker, but she likes to say she really enjoys a cold strong dark beer on a really hot day.…

By robrose

Desert Door Sotol Distillery

Alcohol can be made from many things, At Desert Door they make it from the desert plant called sotol. What a difference a day makes. Dipping Springs in just west of Austin, and it being a beautiful Saturday, the crowds…

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Dripping Springs Distillery Tour and Tasting

Back again today to Dripping Springs Distillery. We had arrived yesterday afternoon at a RV Park in the town of Dripping Springs since last night (Thursday) is the only night they have a Happy Hour. Today we were going…

By robrose

Dripping Springs Distillery

I've posted before about the gin that my other half simply loves. We are once again traveling in our RV, Sophie, and you can guess in which town we are staying for a few days.…

By robrose