When Judy makes up her mind to go for a walk, you might as well get your gear out and get ready. I had found a new Geocache two miles down the beach from the coach. We are currently parked in Nueces County Park at Balli Beach on North Padre Island in Texas. The cabin fever has become somewhat intense since it has been cold and wet and miserable for almost a week now. Short dashes out to the beach to watch the slate gray water beat against the white sandy beach does not assuage our wanderlust. This afternoon the temperature got up to 50 degrees and the wind died down to less than five miles per hour. Judy announced that she was going for a walk. I had a choice, sit here and do yet another Google search on some mysterious, esoteric subject or go for a walk. Now what would you do?

I started out with my wool tights under my regular Dockers pants. A tee shirt, sweatshirt, fleece vest and then a water resistant coat. I grabbed gloves and my old USCG wool watch cap. About a mile down the beach a light mist settled in. By the time we reached the designated cache spot the mist had become a drizzle and the wind picked up to a little over five miles per hour. We found the cache easily but we couldn’t get the pen to write in the drizzle to sign the log sheet. Oh well we will claim it anyway. There is a mark on the page that looks something like an X. That counts doesn’t it? We both tied our hoods tight around our eyes and faced into the teeth of the wind and walked back to camp as fast as we could. It was very much like driving out to Seaside Oregon and walking the beach during one of the winter storms. It is just one of those things we Oregonians do.

At this time we have drippy clothing hung all over the coach and the heater running full blast.

We wish to welcome some new readers to our blog with this issue. One of my former John Rogers High School class mates, Charlene Scott and her husband Bill. You do have to pity them; they struggled through all of our past blogs before asking to get on my mailing list.

With that I guess I will thank you all for continuing to join us in our travels. When you see that we are in your neighborhood, send us an e-mail and perhaps we can drop by and visit you. We are headed for Brownsville tomorrow just for that purpose, to visit some new old friends, Deb and Glenn.

A drizzly goodbye and lots of love from Texas, Gary and Judy