Mongo Tour

The highlight of our day today was a tour of Mongo, Willis and Rebecca's new 17' Spirit Deluxe Casita. It's white and shiny and brand sparkling new throughout. They picked it up at the factory in Rice, TX, on November 5 and headed out for their shakedown run. They're pleased as punch with it.

It's well designed and very compact. The all-in-one toilet/shower room has watertight compartments, including one for the toilet paper so it won't get wet during showers. Nifty. One thing it doesn't have is a TV. Willis says that if he's out camped by the Grand Tetons, the last thing he needs to be doing is watching TV. He does have a Kindle.

They traveled for five years in a Roadtrek, so they're very used to traveling light. Mongo suits them just right.

We also got a tour of Nick and Toni's 20' Class C Winnebago. They don't make them like that anymore. Both these rigs have the advantage of being able to handle back roads and small parking lots, so they have more flexibility in routes and destinations that a much larger RV like ours has.

It was a warm sunny day, so of course we hit the hot tub for a soak.

We stopped by UTPA to check out the Robot Zoo exhibit. When I walked into the exhibit space, somewhere around 70 or more small children were zooming around the room, excitedly operating the hands-on exhibits. The noise level was intense. I wasn't able to look too closely or actually touch any of the exhibits. They are designed to reveal the biomechanics of animal movement. If we had children visiting, it would be a great place to take them, but we decided that our guests might not be as entranced as the six-year-olds.

Tonight we went to the hall for the Friday night movie. We met Hardy there, but Judy decided that she wasn't interested in a two-part movie. We joined the popcorn eating crowd and enjoyed the first half of the movie. It was originally shown as a television miniseries. The second half will be shown next Friday.