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Day 842: Fleeing the Bolivar Peninsula

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This morning we woke up to a muggy, cloudy day.  Overnighting at the fishing pier wasn’t the most inspiring experience.  I backed in such that the final position had the truck at a right angle to the RV so that I wouldn’t block the thru lane:

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This pelican wanted a snack from the fisherman:

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We spent a few hours walking the beach:

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We looked through the shells we had collected:

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We really wanted to have an on-beach dispersed camping experience, but a beach flood watch was in effect for tonight as well, and we really didn’t want to spend Shabbos at the fishing pier.  Also, the weather looks lousy for most of this coming week, so we said goodbye to the Bolivar Peninsula and headed to Houston for Shabbos.  On the way out, construction crews were clearing the road from the sand washed up in last night’s flood tide:

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Good Shabbos from Houston, Texas!  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.

Day 841: To the Bolivar Peninsula

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I noted this sign this morning next to the RV in the Walmart parking lot.  Is this such a common problem that this specific law is required, and signs have to be posted?

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Louisiana, land of cheap diesel.  I guess it helps to be close to the refineries:

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We crossed into Texas:

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We made our way down to the Bolivar Peninsula, a barrier island immediately east of Galveston Island.  High tides coupled with stiff onshore winds piled up the waves, completely submerging the beach and over-washing the highway:

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We now understand why they build houses on stilts here:

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The plan was to disperse camp on the beach, which is legal here, but at this end of the island as well, there was no beach above water:

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We drove back east on the peninsula to a fishing inlet area that allows overnight parking.  We’ll re-evaluate what to do tomorrow.

See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.

Day 839: Fishing and Soccer with Rick and Chasitie

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Last night was chilly overnighting next to Rick’s house:

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B is pretending to be one of the ants in “Them”.  We’ve never seen it, but this is how Bubbie and Zayde describe it:

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B and A waiting to go fishing:

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Down at the pond:

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Like most times we fish, it was fishing, not catching:

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Trish got in on the action:

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Even Rick was skunked:

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B and Foxy:

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M did a little target shooting with Rick’s BB gun:

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M and Rick check out animal tracks on a nature trail next to Rick’s house:

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We played soccer towards evening:

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At night we had a campfire:

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B painted a fish onto E’s bedroom wall:

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We had a great day with Rick and Chasitie!  We will head out tomorrow.

Day 838: Go West (Quickly), Young Man

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We’re on something of a schedule, as we have to visit several yeshiva high schools before the end of their enrollment periods, which end in just a couple months, so we decided to forego roaming the rest of Florida for now.  We had already explored parts of Florida on our 2012 trip, so it’s not a total loss.

We headed west from Jacksonville, stopping for lunch at a rest stop where M and I repositioned his motorcycle in the bed of the pickup: 

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We continued west to arrive at Rick’s house, where we spent time visiting with Rick and Chasitie.  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.