About Time To Leave

Don and Betty finally arrived and they wanted to stay here for about a week to see more of the Hill Country and rest up before the long trip to Durango CO.

We drove to Bandera to see some sights in The Cowboy Capital Of The World and have dinner at the famous Old Spanish Trail Restaurant.

Unusual seats in Restaurant

Medena River

Stonewall Still

We're still in Stonewall Texas waiting for Don and Betty to arrive. We talked to them a few days ago and they said they would be here in about a week or so.

We haven't been doing much that would be note worthy. We've gone into Johnson City a time or two to have dinner. We've found a real good restaurant that serves home cook meals.

The only problem with staying in Stonewall is that it's about 15 miles back to Fredericksburg to Wally World.

Stonewall Again

We're back in Stonewall waiting for Don and Betty to arrive. The new awnings we had installed look great and work very well.


We're going to take a short drive to L.B. Johnson National Park and see what it's all about. It's about ten miles from us. Because of "9-11", we were not permitted to visit the main house and a few other places.

LBJ Cottage

Inside Cottage

View Of Pednernales River

Prize Bull

Camping World New Braunfels

We made a short but beautiful drive through the Texas Hill Country to get the awning repairs done. We arrived a little after noon and were told that they would not be able to begin the work till the next morning. They took us to a spot where we had electricity and water so we could spend the night. They gave us the "code" to the main gate so if we wanted to go eat or something we could go and come as we pleased.

The next morning the service manager said he had some bad news for me, the awning they had ordered from Dallas was the wrong size and color and he had to reorder it. He was very sorry but there was nothing then he could do. As it turned out we were there for a total of four days getting all the work done. Oh well at least we had a nice spot to park and had electricity and water. I'm sure glad I had thought to dump my holding tanks before we left.

When I went to pay the bill the service manager said he was going to "comp" the installation cost since we had to stay there longer than planned. All I had to pay for was the cost of the awnings.
We had not only the awnings above the slide replaced but also had the main awning replaced too.

Since it was late in the day when we got all through, I asked the service manager if we could stay another night and leave in the morning, he said no problem, be his guest.

Stonewall, Texas

We're staying at Peach Country RV Park in Stonewall. It sits on a small hill and has a great view of the Texas Hill Country. The sites are one hundred feel long and quite level. Their monthly rate is very reasonable, $225 and that includes everything.

I put out the awning and found that it had suffered some wind damage from the windy Rio Grande area. I called my insurance company and explained what had happened and they said no problem they would pay to have it replaced.

I called Camping World in New Braunsfels to see if they could replace the Carefree of Colorado awning. The service manager called the next afternoon and said he was having problems getting measurements from them. I said let's replace it with A&E awnings and he said "can do". We made an appointment to drive over and get them installed.

I had the Camping World service manager call my insurance company and give them the amount of the repair cost. Later that afternoon I got a call from the claim representative telling me she had sent a check payable to me and Camping World for the total cost. We're ready to go for the repairs.

Changing View of Front and Back Yard

Our time in Mathis is up and it's time to bid a fond farewell to Lee and Carma for a while. We'll see them again in Durango.

We're going to Stonewall, Texas to wait for Don and Betty to arrive. Stonewall is the peach capital of Texas and they have a lot of large peach orchards. Stonewall is about half way between Johnson City and Fredricksburg.