I took some time off from the USTravel.today.com blog. Mainly, I needed to do a little life balancing. See, I had an epiphany recently. I have time in my life for work, knitting, reading, writing, social life, tourism, music, etc… but only if I pick 3 of those things to focus on in any given week. For about 6 weeks, I was near family, and so one slot was taken up with “social life.” With work being an ever-present slot-filler, that left 1 slot for anything else– and I decided to spend that on some things I’d been neglecting, mainly knitting and reading for a while. I also had a speaking engagement in Austin earlier this month– in short, it’s been a busy absence.
We’re now in Terlingua, Texas, which is next to Big Bend National Park. This week, I finished knitting a shawl, which I blogged about yesterday (go read it, even if knitting holds no interest for you– it’s all about a very bad night spent in the RV).
There are several RV parks near Big Bend, but there’s also been a lot of damage from the Rio Grande flooding last month. The park where we’re staying started out as a high-class golf resort but…. well, the economic downturn didn’t help, and the new owners bought it just in time to have the golf course turn into a challenging river rapid. Whoops!
In any case, John and I scouted the RV parks in the nearby area yesterday. For the most part, this part of Texas is big and flat (except for the mesas) and has a lot of sun and not many trees. The RV parks are the same. Most have 50 amp service. Some are flooded– you take your chances, I guess.