LOCATION: Retama Village. Mission, Texas.
WEATHER: Ungodly hot. 101 on one sign. Cloudy and hazy.
We awoke to a puddle of water surrounding our Airstream. I asked George to look at it, worried that something was wrong. It was just from the air conditioner condensation. It is so humid here that we created a small lake outside, and it even "rained' a bit inside.
We had a pretty short ride to Mission, about 250 miles. We stopped about 30 minutes away from our house for lunch. We stopped in a Mexican place, which turned out, disappointedly, to be a fast food place. It was packed with Mexican-Americans. It was super noisy and chaotic - just like Mexico! There was a salsa bar where you load up to spice up your order. Free chips. Lots of kids running around - a real cultural experience. We won't be going back there, though.
Then, on to Retama Village. It is pretty quiet here; lots of folks have returned to the North already.
We parked the Airstream in the driveway. We peeked into the house, but we can't enter yet until we have the official walk-through tomorrow or Tuesday.
They have landscaped our yard since we were last here - grass on the sides, some flowers on the side and in the driveway, and even our own palm tree!!!
The people here seem so nice. I had left a note on the Retama Village Facebook page asking for recommendations of RV repair shops where we can get our refrigerator fixed or replaced. I have had a ton of responses, mostly welcoming us and offering us the use of neighbors' refrigerator space until we can get ours fixed.
We were relieved to find out that they had left the electricity on. If they hadn't (and then we wouldn't have had A/C), then we would have had to stay in a motel. But, all was good. Water and electricity are all in great order.
While we were setting up, one set of neighbors dropped by to welcome us, and also to offer their refrigerator. We think we will be ok with our electric cooler.
After getting set up, we headed to town. We have to buy a refrigerator for the house, Plantation shutters, a dining room table, and a bed. First to Home Depot where we found a lot of nice refrigerators with Memorial Day price reductions. Then to 3 furniture stores to look for beds. Not so successful with this. George just wants a mattress to put on the floor. I definitely will not allow that. He is afraid he will stub his toe on the bed legs. So, he wasn't happy with anything we saw today. We will continue to look tomorrow.
DINNER: Still making-do with no refrigerator, we had paninis. I want to use up all the food from the "emergency food box" while we are here, then start fresh before our next trip. Consequently, we had SPAM on our paninis along with some of the yummy smelly French cheese.
We went up to the clubhouse after dinner. We had planned on an evening swim in the pool, but it started raining. So, we just took showers and headed home to home sweet home.
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