Monthly Archives: August 2011

No Place to Run

There is no place to run; the heat is everywhere!

Leaving Lake Charles, LA we headed to Livingston, TX to check out Escapees National Headquarters and Rainbow’s End RV ParkEscapees is an organization catering to Full Time RVers offering mail forwarding services, RV insurance services,  financial planning  services, Escapees Care Center, easy access to Texas auto registration and licensing, etc.

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Most Excellent RV Adventure

As we start our “Most Excellent RV Adventure” we are not sure how long it will last or where it will take us, but here we go.  Join us on our first leg of the adventure dubbed “Operation First Run” for no other reason than we needed a name and it is our first leg.  Our longest trip to date has been two weeks, not long by RVing standards.

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Boom Goes the Heater!

“I smell gas.”

“No, it’s just the heater you smell.”

“No, I smell gas!”  BOOM!

The explosion rocked the campsite and sounded
like a huge firecracker going off under the tent.  The problem was, the explosion was at the entrance to the tent so people were fighting their way through the tent sides
to escape.  After the explosion, fire enveloped the cutoff valve and regulator so we could not turn the gas off on the propane cylinder.

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