Boerne, Texas

We've moved to the Alamo Fiesta RV Resort (www.alamofiestarv.com)  in Boerne, Texas.  Boerne (pronounced "Bernie"), is about 20 miles north west of San Antonio on Interstate 10.  By moving here from Hondo, we cut our travel time to San Antonio by more than half.  The sites aren't as spacious as in Hondo, but the rates are about the same.  Here we get full hookups (water, sewer, electric) and cable TV also.  We also are billed for electric separately ($0.13 per kwh).  We anticipated staying here only 2 weeks, but the monthly rate was about the same price as the rate for two weeks ($198 per week or 405 per month) plus electricity.  So it was either $396 for 2 weeks or $405 for an entire month.  The decision to stay a month was easy. 

We spent Sunday at John and Judy's watching the NFC championship game.  The game in the last five minutes was a little too close for comfort.  But the better team won.   Onto Dallas for the Super Bowl.  Anyone have tickets they want to GIVE us?

The weather here has been great.  Most days are sunny with highs at or above 60.  Temperatures fall off quickly at sunset to the mid 20s to the mid 30s.  Reminds us of mid-spring in Wisconsin.  But freezing temperatures at night create issue for our water supply.  So, after a little research on the web, we went to Lowes and bought some heat tape and pipe insulation.  We taped the heat wrap to our water hose and encased it in the pipe insulation (like swimming noodles).  The heat tape has a thermostat which turns on when the temperature becomes cold.  So far it has worked like a charm.  No more turning the water off and disconnecting the hose.  One drawback, however, is that there is a fire hazard to the hose if the hose does not have water in it.  But, we do not intend to use it if the camp ground turns the water off.