The Ray Adventures: Belle Chasse, La., Galveston Island, Tx & Rockport, Tx.

We've come full circle, last January 7th we left Rockport for our trek to all the states east of the Mississippi. We traveled 9,908 miles, visited 26 states plus D.C., saw 4 more presidential libraries and visited 22 NFL stadiums plus the NFL Hall of Fame. We used close to 1,100 gallons of diesel with the prices varying between $2.89 in Connecticut to $1.87 in Palacious, Tx., just up the gulf from Rockport. When we left Whidbey Island in September of 2014 we paid over $4.00 a gallon. Thank goodness the price of fuel dropped.

This last week has been pretty quiet except for the tornado warnings and torrential rain in Belle Chasse and Galveston. While we were in the New Orleans area the remnants of Hurricane Patricia passed by dropping up to a foot of rain. We did brave the rain one afternoon to see the movie "Bridge of Spies" starring Tom Hanks. EXCELLENT, we recommend this movie highly! The day we left to head toward Galveston the weather had cleared (as usual, our luck) we spent a night in a Sulfur, La., Wal-Mart arriving to a beautiful day there on Galveston Island. Of course the next day the weather turned lousy. The highlight of our time was the trip to the International Quilt Festival in Houston, the granddaddy of all quilt shows. The largest quilt show in the world showcasing some of the finest works of art by the top quilters from all over the world. It's like visiting an art museum. Gary spent the morning with me looking at quilts, after lunch he escaped to the Husband's Lounge. After seeing 100's of quilts I checked out the vendors, over 520 of them. I did not buy one thing, Gary was amazed. As we drove from Houston to Galveston Island it started raining, dumping up to 15 inches of rain in places, tornadoes hit a town between Houston and Galveston. We had to pull in the passenger slide, the wind was pummeling the "topper". The rain continued until Monday morning, our scheduled day of departure. (Of course).

What a beautiful 165 mile drive from Galveston to Rockport, blue sky, sunshine and just a slight breeze. We pulled into to Rockport around 2, it felt good to be "home". We settled into our space, a new one for us, the other one was on one of the main "drags" for the park, at a little over 500 spaces it's a good size RV park, a little long in the tooth but the people here are so much fun we overlook it's shortcomings.

Tuesday, Nov. 3 Happy 68th Birthday to Me. How did that happen so @#$%^ fast? A nice quiet day, 80 degrees and revisiting old friends. We finished the day playing a few rousing games of Pegs and Jokers.

Well that's it for this week. Enjoy the pic's.

TTFN

Gary and Pam