Moving Day and Whole Foods

We woke this morning to a tremendous thunderstorm! Thunder and lightning and lots of water pouring down from the sky. Oh, no! Are we going to have to pack up and move in this weather? Fortunately, by the time we ate breakfast, the storm had passed, and all that was left was some very large puddles. Fortunately there's lots of gravel, and the earth around here is thirsty, so we didn't have to contend with mud.

We drove east from Hondo towards San Antonio and then took Loop 1604 (the very outer loop) around to the north. We made a stop at Lowe's and had lunch before driving to the nearby Whole Foods. We always like to have the opportunity to stop at large, well-stocked stores with lots of healthy foods and plenty of variety. As we packed the groceries into the truck, I noticed the adjoining furniture store was named "Copenhagen Furniture." A light bulb went off in my head: this looks like the kind of store that just might sell Ekornes Stressless chairs, so they might carry Hide Bracer, the leather cleaner and conditioner that the manufacturer of our wonderful Stressless chairs recommends. They did, so now we have a supply of Hide Bracer that will last us years.

We continued on to Cranes Mill Park, a Corps of Engineers park on Canyon Lake. It has a very nice new RV loop, with some of the largest and best appointed RV sites we have every seen. We have a nice view of the lake out our rear and driver side windows. After setting up, we took the bikes down and headed out to explore the park. We stopped and talked with one of the host couples. They have a wonderful hilltop site with no close neighbors and a great view. Their only job is to make sure the restrooms are stocked, and they only have to work on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. How's that for cushy?


We finally have our Millenicom Verizon broadband modem working again, yay! They called this morning while we were on the road to say that they thought our problem had been fixed but to let them know if we were still having trouble. Sigh. Of course we had to call them back and go through some diagnostics and re-activation, but now we're back online.