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front had all but exhausted itself having been denuded of its clouds and ushering in the bright sunlight and impossibly blue sky that we sometimes take for granted in texas although we were in our shirtsleeves a light jacket would feel good at nightfall it was a beautiful and peaceful place and the world s ugliness and strife seemed very far away we can t help but marvel at our having been blessed to arrive at a point in our lives where we can follow the sun and not have to be entombed in the massive snowfalls of the frozen north that we ve seen on tv or if we re not trying to escape the heat or cold we can merely change the scenery whenever we wish some don t understand it at all and that s fine i know so many people who cannot imagine themselves in such a vagabond like lifestyle just as i cannot fathom the boredom i would be forced to endure while imprisoned in a house awaiting the end of my mobility that old age will bring the window for going seeing and doing is open for now and no one but the good lord knows when it will close but close it will and i do not wish to regret the adventure not taken thank you lord for the wonderful life you ve given me please forgive me if i do not appreciate it enough each day posted by unknown at 23 55 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 17 february 2015 overcoming pain with fear at the lagoons rv resort rockport texas fortunately the pain in my foot subsided significantly after i began wearing the new zombie boot it is also possible however that the pain has been suppressed by fear you see sandy has had to assume the driving duties in mae something that would normally happen only if i were unconscious or otherwise incapacitated she will be the first to tell you that driving a vehicle makes her nervous but this doesn t fully describe its effect on me to illustrate why i m sometimes fearful perhaps a brief review of some of the more memorable events in her driving history is in order sandy s most significant automobile accident occurred when she collided with a vehicle driven by her own husband she once collided with an appliance in our garage she was ticketed for speeding in a school zone she was a schoolteacher at the time in an attempt to back our suburban out of the garage she managed to get it caught sideways in the structure and had to call me home from work to straighten it out i asked if it could wait until after work hours but she informed me that her beauty shop appointment constituted an emergency i came home sandy actually has a very good driving record it s just that odd things seem to happen while she s driving and since she has achieved perfection in my eyes i m sure these things are not her fault sandy helped me write this paragraph here are a couple more restaurant reviews for you b and j pizza in corpus christi oh my this cavernous place has some righteous pizza it was packed when we went on a friday night and it took nearly an hour to get our pizza but it was worth the wait super fresh toppings lay on a crispy crust that was also light and tender it reminded me of the 5 ate café a favorite in houston featured in an earlier post four and a half stars for b and j it would have been five had the wait not been so long i m in line to order at b j pizza for our valentine s day dinner i chose roosevelt s at the tarpon inn in port aransas this was a really fine place and we enjoyed immensely some expertly prepared mahi mahi and flounder and the attentive service very fresh very tasty and very expensive but nothing is too good for my valentine right four and a half stars for roosevelt s i would have given it five except i didn t care for the julienned vegetable saute served as a side had the veggies not been cut so fine they may not have suffered from being slightly overcooked the original tarpon inn was built on this location in 1886 the restaurant was named in honor of onetime guest franklin d roosevelt the tarpon inn looks rundown but it s not this is typical of small coastal towns garlic bread served at roosevelt s just as good as it looks thank you lord for the wonderful life you ve given me please forgive me if i do not appreciate it enough each day posted by unknown at 01 12 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 15 february 2015 harassed aplenty but still standing sort of at the lagoons rv resort rockport texas i suppose one can tell the quality of his friends by the quantity if not the quality of their harassment well i must have some doozies while most of the comments were kind and sympathetic regarding my poor broken foot some of the wags whom i reluctantly identify as friends had a different kind of support in mind namely none ed assumed i tripped because i was blinded by the noon sun when i awoke bob figured i had been thrown out of a restaurant since i seem to spend so much time in them john said he would run the numbers to see what he would charge me to drive phannie home well i don t want to throw stones but the only reason ed gets up before dawn is that he thinks he has a dog he doesn t and bob is understandably confused as he s probably nearing 80 he just had another birthday party where everyone put on sunscreen when they lit the candles on his cake and john is so cheap that he once went outside and fired a gun on christmas eve so he could tell his kids santa killed himself yes we like each other not to worry but never fear dear reader just because i get jokes about my seemingly incessant posts about restaurants i will continue undaunted to share my foodie impressions so you can weed out all but the best if you ever find yourself near where we ve been today we went to corpus for the day and stopped at snoopy s pier a hulking restaurant overlooking corpus christi bay and offering dining that is mostly al fresco you order your food at a counter and take a seat then a server will bring it to your table the seafood was quite good and fresh and i really enjoyed the fish and chips perhaps the savings in staff helps keep the prices fairly reasonable and that s always a good thing i give this one 3 5 stars meaning it s worth the trip not having had quite enough fresh seafood at the end of the day we stopped at the boiling pot in rockport this ramshackle place serves mostly fresh boiled seafood cajun style where they dump the steaming spicy contents of a boiling pot onto your table then they put a bib on you and you go after it eating with your hands besides the shrimp crab or crawfish you also get a bonus of sausage potatoes and corn so bring help to eat it all we were not really all that hungry so we settled for a bowl of gumbo and a plate of boiled shrimp the gumbo was outstanding and very spicy just the way i like it the shrimp were good too but since they had their heads on sandy was freaked out a bit by the beady little eyes staring up at her she also proclaimed that one of them was cross eyed but i couldn t confirm it mainly because i m sane i give this place 3 5 stars so it s worth patronizing one more thing its a little pricey so bring your man purse along lord thank you for the wonderful life you ve given me please forgive me if i fail to appreciate it enough each day posted by unknown at 00 37 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 13 february 2015 well foot at least it s not my leg at the lagoons rv resort rockport texas i have always had a problem in not watching where i m walking i tend to gawk at most everything else instead i suppose i m afraid i ll miss something going on around me or i could just be people watching anyway paying close attention to where my feet are seems entirely too boring however a rudimentary awareness of the ground upon which i m walking is much more likely to help me avoid certain hazards it was that lack of awareness that caused me to step in a hole while walking a couple of days ago the hole was mostly obscured by grass but i m sure i would have seen it if i had been looking i felt the jolt immediately and began to stumble but i caught myself before my careening developed into a full belly flop which would be so like me after recovering my balance i didn t notice the pain at first but as the time went on my right foot began to swell and walking became painful finally a trip to an urgent care facility here in rockport for x rays confirmed that i had a fracture at the base of the fifth metatarsal it s really not a big deal as it will only require a special boot to be worn to stabilize the foot as it heals a larger issue is the loss of dignity as i hobble around zombie like everywhere i go my new high fashion boot this will cause us to extend our stay here for a while until such time as i can safely drive phannie again there are worse places to be however the blizzard ridden northeast comes to mind thank you lord for the wonderful life you ve given me please forgive me if i do not appreciate it enough each day posted by unknown at 21 56 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 11 february 2015 breaking camp and heading south at the lagoons rv resort rockport texas having added some local support for mindy s entry to nursing school we decided to get out of her family s hair and continue with a little winter vacation of our own but first we made a quick trip in mae back home to collect a month s worth of mail and take care of a few chores around the house for those who gave up the demands of your stick house in favor of fulltiming you can gloat here on our way back to phannie whom we left forlornly at rayford crossing mae decided it was time for us to visit the old mexican inn a favorite restaurant in corsicana so she suddenly veered off i 45 and drove through downtown and out highway 31 to this wonderful old mexican food emporium operated by the flores family since 1941 we re glad she made the sudden diversion as sandy and i enjoyed a collection of favorite dishes including tacos al carbon enchiladas and queso and they were as always delicious i absolutely recommend this place as probably the best stop you can make if you re hungry between dallas and houston a couple of days later we departed rayford crossing and began the 217 mile leg to rockport this required me to make a choice between using the tollway around houston and going straight through downtown where it is necessary to transition to u s 59 toward victoria i really don t like going through downtown because the traffic is usually heavy and being in the correct lane at the right time is crucial this is not all that easy in a motorhome pulling a toad and it is made worse by houston s legendary hateful drivers to give you an idea of how boorish they can be i was minding my own business earlier in the leg when i turned phannie onto the i 45 service road two drivers in the next lane honked and gave me the middle finger for no apparent reason i gave them a long blast with phannie s air horn which obviously startled them and caused one of the drivers to jerk his steering wheel almost hitting the car alongside him pity he didn t since it was midday and a less busy traffic time i decided to go through downtown the argument for that choice being the shorter driving time it s a long way around the loop and the money to be saved in tolls it would have cost more than 25 to get phannie around the beltway to u s 59 even with the time of day being ideal the trip through downtown was still harrowing there was one place where we wouldn t have been able to move into the correct lane except for a courteous driver who made room thankfully it was not one of the guys who earlier showed me the naughty digit phannie purred smoothly all the way to rockport and we pulled into the lagoons rv resort just before they closed the office at 5 00 pm lagoons is a very nice and friendly park well maintained but restricted to 55 travelers we sorta lucked out getting a space there as they had only one left reservations anywhere in the rockport area are not easy to find in winter seeing the palm trees below and noticing guests dressed in shorts and flip flops tells you all you need to know about the attraction this part of texas has for snowbirds we asked the desk clerk about favorite restaurants in the area and she quickly mentioned shempy s a little seafood place that we decided to investigate the little place was packed with customers but we soon got a table and placed our order for a seafood platter that sandy and i would share below is a photo of the gigantic platter by the way the crab cake was huge with more crabmeat than i had ever seen before in one of these shempy s is obviously not a place where you need to worry being underdressed although i didn t confirm i assume the guy in the t shirt below is shempy as he seemed in charge and was speaking loudly to everyone when he came to our table however it became obvious that his elevated speaking volume was used because he was hard of hearing by the time i screamed my order to him and he screamed it back to confirm everyone in the restaurant knew what we were having so if you decide to go to shempy s be prepared for good food and friendly people but for goodness sake don t go overdressed okay in keeping with my intention to share a few more personal details here are some that probably will not interest you at all we are not morning people frankly i fail to understand why some retirees insist on rising before the sun does there s no reason for it that makes sense humans don t have very good night vision and they tend to bump into things when it s dark i know i do sandy and i try to get up by 8 00 am unless well we don t want to our sleep needs differ sandy is an eight hour sleeper i rarely sleep more than five i often offer her my hypothesis that bright people need less sleep than well the unbright but then she offers her own hypothesis that a frying pan could make a good hat for me we are very picky about our bed sandy and i really struggle to sleep well if we find ourselves on a strange mattress for this reason we duplicated in phannie our pillows and the favorite icomfort kingsize mattress we use in our house that way we can t tell any difference in fact we sometimes awaken and do not immediately know whether we are at home or in phannie that s not a bad thing thank you lord for the wonderful life you have given me please forgive me if i do not appreciate it enough every day posted by unknown at 23 30 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 5 february 2015 another foodie find and more about quirks at rayford crossing rv resort spring texas near houston i haven t been including too much about our restaurant adventures lately as we really haven t been all that impressed with some of the places we ve been until now that is i ve already mentioned el palenque here in spring as a wonderful mexican restaurant...