Catch Up

We're getting a chance to catch up and breathe a bit today. This morning we started out with a seminar on RVing in Mexico. The presenter, who works with Adventure Caravans, spoke glowingly of the scenery and people of Mexico. However, after half an hour, he told the group that ULSD (ultra low sulphur diesel), which is required for diesel vehicles manufactured from 2007 on, is not available in Mexico. We were joined by some other folks who left the seminar at that point. Until ULSD is available, we certainly won't be driving into Mexico.

We walked through the vendor area again, hoping to get some things we were interested in, but all the vendors we wanted to see were busy. We did talk with Ron and Barb Bergquist at their booth offering waterless car wash products. It turned out that they are Retama owners who have just recently moved up to a coach house from their RV lot. They know Dick and Karleen Karsten, square dancing friends who pointed us to their lot in Bentsen Palm Village when they bought at Retama.

Our next seminar was on RV Space Saving Ideas. That's a topic all RVers are interested in, but the presenter unfortunately was rather disorganized and mainly promoted products her company was selling.

We ate our sandwiches in the hospitality room and then went to check out "the Row." We said hi to Lynn Cross, who was staffing one of the booths.

Next, Ken attended a seminar on digital photography while I went to one on detailing your RV in one hour "using hypo-allergenic items from your kitchen cupboard." It was presented by one of the owners of Heavenly Microfiber, so a lot of the suggestions involved using microfiber cloths. The best part of this session is that I won a collapsible RV brush bucket with a long oval shape which will accommodate a 16" brush--or it can be used as an ice chest to chill drinks for parties.

At 3:00 p.m. I planned to attend a seminar titled "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" promising tips on things RVers wish they had known from the start. So many people were interested that it was standing room only, so I joined Ken in the RV Geeks seminar on photo sharing. We ended up leaving early to go to the Sedalia Farmer's Market. That was not easy to find, since we had conflicting information about where it was located.

When we found it (just inside Gate 12 of the Fairgrounds), we saw that it was very small. We did find a few things--a few apples and tomatoes and squash. Then we went to Bing's supermarket, stopping first at a health food store. That also was very small, but I did find some almonds.

After dinner we walked around the campground. We saw lots of RVs, including surprisingly a New Horizons Majestic. We knocked on the door, and Pete and Diana Wisneski graciously invited us in. Theirs is a 2010 Majestic, the third one ordered. Pete is a Chevron engineer and still working in Houston. They're planning to be in Kerrville for the NHOG rally next April.
It definitely got colder tonight. We wore our heavier jackets on our walk. We shivered even more when we heard Pete describing his experiences working in Kazakhstan in the winter.