Greetings from Galveston! We're visiting Jamie and having a super time birding, eating, kayaking in the bayou, eating, bike riding, eating, and, oh yes, we're eating a lot -- crayfish, blue crab, salmon, scallops, oysters - lots of delicious fish.
But back to the trip, I forget myself with all this good food. Arkansas was fun. Mountain Home is over 50% retirees, so we expected lots of old folks, but found it to be great. The course is fairly flat, well-manicured and not too hard except for the stiff wind we always seemed to face. Gloria particularly liked the posh ladies locker room complete with computer to update emails. We then went to the Ozark Folk Museum in Mountain View -- it was a hoot, especially the great foot stompin, finger snappin bluegrass music. That morning we had quite a thunderstorm, only tofind out that 30 miles away was a tornado which killed two people. We happened to drive by next day and were amazed to see trees snapped off and a utility shed about 50 feet up in a tree!
On to Broken Bow, Oklahoma, where we played at a nice hilly, narrow course with lots of woods. Unfortunately they had record rains and the signature hole was under water. We followed a golf tournament, so replenished our supply of golf balls after Glenn hit many shots in the woods.
Glen Rose, Texas was great. Everyone was thrilled to see us, since it is both of our names (Rose is Gloria's middle name). Folks were very friendly and we loved the course. They were predicting severe thunderstorms with possible hail, but we played anyway and the storm never materialized. We just got lucky. Gloria just missed a birdie putt which was a great relief to Glenn because he hasn't had a birdie yet. She is getting a lot better.
We had a very nice time in Fort Worth with Gloria's brother Dan and his wife Jennifer -- just kicked back, saw a couple of movies and had a pleasant visit. After Glen Rose we went to Pedernales State Park in the Texas Hill Country and had a super visit with David Shackleford and his fiance Mallory. David has been our birding guide in South Africa, Madagascar, China and India and is a super birder. We had great views of the rare and local Golden-cheeked Warbler which breeds there.
Now in Galveston, did I mention we are eating a lot? Tomorrow we leave for High Island, Anahuac and Bolivar peninsula for birding, then on to Louisiana and cajun/etouffee/gumbo. I don't think we're losing weight. The trip has been great fun, and we even discovered how to turn on our air conditioner in the Roadtrek which has helped here in Galveston with 85 degrees and 88% humidity. We are definitely in the subtropics. We also got the Verizon gadget which allows us to be on line while traveling - this should be a great help to us.
Now it's on to Louisiana, Mississippi and the gulf coast.
Glenn and Gloria
But back to the trip, I forget myself with all this good food. Arkansas was fun. Mountain Home is over 50% retirees, so we expected lots of old folks, but found it to be great. The course is fairly flat, well-manicured and not too hard except for the stiff wind we always seemed to face. Gloria particularly liked the posh ladies locker room complete with computer to update emails. We then went to the Ozark Folk Museum in Mountain View -- it was a hoot, especially the great foot stompin, finger snappin bluegrass music. That morning we had quite a thunderstorm, only tofind out that 30 miles away was a tornado which killed two people. We happened to drive by next day and were amazed to see trees snapped off and a utility shed about 50 feet up in a tree!
On to Broken Bow, Oklahoma, where we played at a nice hilly, narrow course with lots of woods. Unfortunately they had record rains and the signature hole was under water. We followed a golf tournament, so replenished our supply of golf balls after Glenn hit many shots in the woods.
Glen Rose, Texas was great. Everyone was thrilled to see us, since it is both of our names (Rose is Gloria's middle name). Folks were very friendly and we loved the course. They were predicting severe thunderstorms with possible hail, but we played anyway and the storm never materialized. We just got lucky. Gloria just missed a birdie putt which was a great relief to Glenn because he hasn't had a birdie yet. She is getting a lot better.
We had a very nice time in Fort Worth with Gloria's brother Dan and his wife Jennifer -- just kicked back, saw a couple of movies and had a pleasant visit. After Glen Rose we went to Pedernales State Park in the Texas Hill Country and had a super visit with David Shackleford and his fiance Mallory. David has been our birding guide in South Africa, Madagascar, China and India and is a super birder. We had great views of the rare and local Golden-cheeked Warbler which breeds there.
Now in Galveston, did I mention we are eating a lot? Tomorrow we leave for High Island, Anahuac and Bolivar peninsula for birding, then on to Louisiana and cajun/etouffee/gumbo. I don't think we're losing weight. The trip has been great fun, and we even discovered how to turn on our air conditioner in the Roadtrek which has helped here in Galveston with 85 degrees and 88% humidity. We are definitely in the subtropics. We also got the Verizon gadget which allows us to be on line while traveling - this should be a great help to us.
Now it's on to Louisiana, Mississippi and the gulf coast.
Glenn and Gloria
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Hi Guys! Just read your story in the Register-Guard - I grew up in Eugene. We took a similar trip in 2000-2001 and wrote a book about HOW to get out of the house and onto the road. I'm sure we would have many similar experiences. You can read about our adventure at www.roadtripdream.com - give us a buzz when you are back in Oregon and we'll compare notes!
Carol White
carol at roadtripdream dot com
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