All Good Things Come to an End

Sharon and I Started our RV adventure November  2009 and what a ride its been …..I said that we’d travel until we found the place we wanted to settle down ……
       I really thought it would be many years until that time would come……We made it to Phoenix , AZ. , and we ran into a a man from Sharon's past looking at a house . His name is Tony Gregorio , Sharon use to baby for him , well actually his daughter Angel .

I also have known  him , his wife Pam and a couple of their kids ……A good family….

Well the housing troubles we all saw on the television the last few years , were happening here live and very sad too . Sharon and I went to look at the house that Tony was looking at and met his realtor Tom .
  A few days later we looked at a few and found one that was wonderful . It was built three years ago and after a couple of offers and counter offers we ended up buying it for a third of what it sold for three years ago .

This is our new HOME :

		Our new home VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

 At first I thought we could sell the RV and buy a travel trailer for our summer home at Green Harbor campground . But it isn’t going to happen for a while . we are going to stay here FULLTIME , and go to Rochester to visit a few weeks every summer . Maybe after social security kicks in we wil be able to go for the whole summers .

          We will still travel around the west coast and blog . Just not as often and not for long periods of time .

I hope to see you all at one time or another , either in N.Y. , here in Arizona or just on the road  .

       
Happy Trails to You ……..

Texas USA

Our first stop in the great state of Texas was in a small town of Wallisville TX. The time here would be short , only two days but the experience would not be .

We headed to the Gulf of Mexico via the Bolivar Peninsula , that’s where Sharon and I saw the working oil wells  we’ve never seen before .

working Texas Oil Well

I started to wonder why there weren't more housing along this gulf shore …….Sharon remembered that this is where Hurricane Ike hit only a year or so ago ……


 Mile after mile of empty shore and streets …….
We drove the 20 miles along Crystal Beach , finding only an occasional house being built or done ……very sad ……

At the end of the road is Port Bolivar and a short ferry ride to Galveston TX.

Galveston , is a neat city ……  lots of shops and older buildings ……It also had one of Sharon’s favorite places ……Ice Cream Shoppe ……

		City of Galveston TX. VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

We drove back to the campground and were treated with a nice bridge ride :

we’ll be heading to Elgin TX. , home to one of Sharons’ friends from when she was a young newspaper girl ……

Christmas in the South

We arrived at Abita Springs Resort in Louisiana on the 21 of December …….and only a 45 minute ride to the” BIG EASY “ that’s right Christmas in New Orleans LA……..

The route we took to New Orleans was on this 24 mile bridge …..we couldn’t see any land and it looked like a bridge to nowhere …….

The first thing we saw was the Silver Dome …..it  brought memories of  Hurricane Katrina , I think it was only five years ago …..

Next , we had to find parking , not an easy thing to do , lots wanted $20.00 for all day parking….They are nuts to think I’d pay that much……1/2 hour later I found no free parking ….DARN IT !!!!  I did remember a fellow camper told me if you  gamble only 30 minutes the Casino lets you park for  “FREE” in their ramp !!!!  That’s for us I said to Sharon ,as smart as I am , when I’m done they’ll be paying me to park there !!!!  OK needless to say it cost me over $125.00 for parking ….Will I ever learn ?

 

So , here's the French Quarter :

		A very neat Place VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

Bourbon St . is just like you see in the movies ….and on TV…..Bar after bar and we were there during the day  , but you can feel it’s the nights when all things good and crazy happen !!!!!

Next we went to the St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square .   Really big and beautiful ……

		The Church VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

It was time to find something to eat ……we  wanted to try the food known in the Quarter ….we found a neat café and ate on the second floor balcony ….

This was the view and the weather was a little cool but sunny …… I ordered a Muffaletta , it’s a round sandwich with ham , salami and cheese grilled with and olive oil and green olives dressing  …. uuummm so good …..Sharon had a chicken and fish gumbo ….

The Casino had a snow machine going outside …so we had a feel for  Christmas's past  …It was fun to see the kids playing

Oh and Santa was here too …..

That’s it for now …from here we head to Wallisville TX and we all know everything is HUGE in Texas ….