Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Early Christmas and a Truck Trist

Friday, December 21st, 2018

We planned this trip to get together with our relatives in the DFW metroplex for Christmas. We made reservations at Bluebonnet Ridge RV Resort, our favorite place to stay when we visit family.

We left about 1:30pm, because the day before, we had gone to look at a truck in Abilene. A newer version of ours, same color. But we found a few things that didn't add up right, and had decided it was not for us.

We got to the edge of Ft. Worth about 3:45pm. Right before Rush Hour. GREEEAATTT! But luckily, traffic was not too terrible, and we got to the RV Park by 5:30pm.

One last rest stop before entering the Metroplex!

We arrived!

Our site (pic taken the next day.)



Saturday, December 22nd, 2018

Today we did a little prep-work for the Christmas get-together tonight, and then headed out to "Smoke Sessions BBQ", a food truck on the outskirts of Royse City, for lunch. We had the most amazing BBQ! A huge beef rib, jalapeno and cheese sausage, brisket, and smoked mac & cheese. It was a little expensive, but worth every bite!



Afterward, we headed back to the rig and did some more prep-work for the party. We also did some more research on trucks and hitch compatibility.

In the RV park, we noticed this unique "tiny home". It looks like it was built on a flatbed gooseneck hauler, but they also incorporated RV-like slideouts.

A real tiny home!


In the evening, we got together with family and had a great meal, exchanged gifts -- a new idea this year -- stuffed Christmas socks. We then played some games, and enjoyed visiting with Tony's family and my folks.



Eventually, it was time to clean up and head our separate ways. It was great to see everyone!



Sunday, December 23rd, 2018

Today we worked on some projects around the rig, laundry of our bigger washable items (comforter, etc.), ran some more errands, researched some more trucks, and then Tony cooked on the grill. He attempted to cook a Prime Rib Roast! It turned out pretty good, but not quite as "rare" as we would have liked. 


Tony's first Prime Rib roast

Monday, December 24th, 2018

This morning, we planned to get going fairly early. We had contacted a dealer in Stephenville about a truck we wanted to see, so we headed out, planning to meet up with them before they closed for the Christmas holiday.

Heading out!


 Stephenville is about 40 minutes out of the way, but sorta on our path to home.  We arrived at the dealer about 1:00pm. We had specifically asked about the hitch that was in the bed of the truck, and were told it was a B&W. However, when we arrived, it was a Curt, which is not compatible with our current B&W Companion 5th wheel hitch. We went ahead and test -drove it, and looked it over well. They said they could get the hitch changed out for us. We said we'd think about it. But after driving away, we talked about it on the way home, and decided it was probably not the truck for us, for a variety of reasons.

They brought the truck to us! We had to park in their overflow lot, about a block from the dealership. 

We made it back home to our home park in the late afternoon, and we set up for a short week. We depart again on December 28th!


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