Saturday, July 19, 2014
Today was a "moving day" of sorts for us, as Mammoth is headed to a new resting spot for a while. Tony has a new job, and Mammoth is going to be our "home away from home" as Tony lives out the life of a band director in Cisco, TX. I'll be traveling back and forth as work requires, but the plan is that Solid Rock RV Park, near Eastland Texas, on the shore of Lake Leon, is our main abode.
We're still holding onto our house because we want to make sure this job goes smoothly. We also wanted to give ourselves plenty of opportunity to look for a new house, or whatever works best for us, in the future, since we are unfamiliar with this area... and give us time to clean out the clutter and prep our home for sale accordingly. (We have a number of unfinished "projects" there, too.)
On Sunday, we loaded up the Mammoth and car and headed to Solid Rock. We opted not to take the kitties this trip, as I was going to be going back home the next day for some work commitments.
We had already checked in with the manager at Solid Rock, so he knew we were coming. Our site we picked out was the same one we had visited back the first part of June, when the job interview took place. We liked the views out the windows, and our neighbors seemed to be pretty quiet. It's also two sites over from a small bathhouse, should we need it.
We arrived about 1pm, and got set up. We took our time to try to get the rig level and stabilized, since it's going to be here a while. The park management had added some more gravel and leveled the site better, so that really helped. We didn't have too much trouble getting settled in.
Not long after we got set up, we had to head to Covington, TX. The Cisco head director and his wife had invited us over for steaks and to visit, so we headed out about 3. We have known Mac and Kathy a long time, and have kept in touch through the years. We nearly always see Mac at the band director's conventions in San Antonio, so this we like getting together with dear old friends! They live in Covington, but Mac has been staying in an RV for his work in Cisco. It was just more cost-effective for them. They have a great place with acreage and cattle, and it's paid for, so it's hard to pull up roots.
We thought it was about a 2 hour drive, but we managed to miss a split in the highways in Cleburne, and ended up having to cut back cross-country to get where we needed to go.
We arrived about 5:40, and had a great time visiting and eating (everything was terrific!), then playing some Chickenfoot. It reminded us of getting together with our Heartland friends, it just felt great! We stayed too late talking, it was a great time. We had to hit the road to get home (to Mammoth), so we decided to cut over to the interstate.
It was much quicker to go I-35W north, then I-20 east. We got home about midnight. Wow, what a day!
