Spicewood Airport Texas

When we first arrived in Spicewood Texas, Tom and Lynn drove out to the highway to meet us and guide us in to his Brother Bill's hanger at the airport. He had made arrangements for us to park the coach in front of Bill's hanger there at Spicewood Airport.

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner with Tom, Lynn, Bill and Sara and more family and friends. They moved the airplane out of the hanger and set up tables for everyone to sit and eat. They have a big kitchen there in the hanger, so that was a perfect place for a large group of family and friends to enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner together.

This was a beautiful airport, one of the most memorable places that we have parked our motor home. Small planes taking off and landing all day, Wow, what an exciting place to be. Bill even took Joe up in the Helicopter for about an hour ride over the Austin area. Joe had a wonderful time and has talked about it ever since that day. Tom would like to have gone, but, was still sick with a cold, however he came out to see Joe and Bill off.

We went down to have biscuits and gravy with Tom, Lynn and her Mom one morning and had a chance to catch Santa filling up his motorcycle at the gas station. I guess that is what he drives before Christmas.

We had a great time during our stay in Spicewood Texas, this is a beautiful area, and close to Austin. We drove down to San Antonio for the day one day and had fun, we also stopped at Fredricksburg Texas on our way of Texas toward New Mexico.

Pat and Terry at Altus AFB, Oklahoma

We have been trying to get to Altus Oklahoma for a couple of years, and something always gets in the way. This time we finely made it !! We have friends here, Pat and Terry Krause. We both worked with them several years ago at Norton AFB and at March ARB in California.

We sure did have a good time here too. I have always thought of Oklahoma as being a flat state, with tornadoes and wind storms. Pat and Terry showed us a different side of this great state and the area where they live. They took us up on a mountain, yes, a mountain in Oklahoma. Who Knew !!!

Beautiful place, then we went to a Wildlife Preserve nearby where we saw Long Horn Steer. They are so beautiful and amazing. They also have buffalo, we could see them, but the buffalo were not close enough to the road for us to get any pictures of them.

In addition to the Long Horn Steer, we also saw several deer and prairie dogs. I had no idea that Cotton grew in Oklahoma too.

Oh, I forgot to mention that while we were parked at Altus FamCamp, our car was parked behind our motor home in a parking lot. The first morning it was very cold and raining, with wind gusts. When we went outside, we saw that the pontoon boat that had been parked a little further up the parking lot had come to rest against our car. It was not secured when it was parked and the winds had blown it loose. I guess we will get the repairs done while we are in California this winter.

We are on our way to Spicewood Texas to visit with our friends Tom and Lynn, we are planning to stay there and have Thanksgiving dinner with Tom and Lynn and their family this year.

Oklahoma City

Once we got settled in at the famcamp at Tinker AFB, we went to the Bass Pro Shop and took a Tram down to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum at the site of the Federal building that was bombed on April 19th 1995.

This was a wonderful memorial, each of the empty chairs in the following pictures is a monument to a person who lost their life on that day. The small ones identify the 19 children and the large ones the 149 adults. The museum was great too, and we spent several hours going through it. I highly recommend for this to be a stop for everyone passing through Oklahoma. They have done a great job putting this memorial together and it makes you realize how vulnerable we all are, and how precious every day is to us.

We found out while we were here that there is a recall on our Norcold Refrigerator, so we called and found a place locally to get the repairs done. We were told be the mfg that we needed to turn off and unplug it now, so had to go over to Outdoor Recreation and rent a large cooler to put everything out of the freezer and fridge in. Had to wait two days for the part to come in then, we will go in to get the work done.

The famcamp at Tinker AFB, is a very clean nice campground. It is a little crowded to get parked for those of us with large motor homes, but very nice and roomy once you get into your site. We enjoyed our stay here, and are looking forward to coming back again.

We Finely got our refrigerator recall done and after we had to throw away a lot of frozen food, we were on the road again, and heading for our friends at Altus AFB, Oklahoma.