21 au 24 novembre, 2014.

Friday November 21, 2014.

Today, we decided to tour Goliad with the self-guided brochure from the Chamber of Commerce.  We are back in Goliad walking the same street as a few days ago, but this time we read about the houses and business around the square.

We also visited the small museum of Goliad.

This is an indoor toilet.  It is also modern, read the information on the photo below.

Very ingenious.

We do not know what this big contraption is.
Lucky for us the man looking after the museum knows.  Here it is, back when they had no electricity in town, the doctor needed electricity to run his X-ray machine.  By turning the glass wheels in the box, you create electricity.

We have never seen a fan like this one.  You light-up the lamp on the bottom and the heat generated goes up the chimney and makes the fan rotate.
Usually you need a fan to cool off, but with this one, you need heat to cool off??? 

This is the Goliad flag during the Texas revolution.

This is a nice little museum.  We have seen better and we have seen worst.  The admission is a donation.

The weather is not very good, light drizzle all day, but with a nice 25 C.  No complaint.

 The weather forecast is calling for severe thunderstorms for tonight.

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Saturday November 22, 2014.

WOW!  Starting at noon, we are under a severe thunderstorm warning!  We got heavy rain, but all the thunderstorms went around us.

Some of the rain we got!

It is somewhat of hard to see, but it was coming down hard.

Two hours later, it is all over.
Our site.

This is not a pretty sunset, but the sky is clearing up fast.

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Sunday November 23, 2014.

We are on our way to the Rio Grande valley, really close to Mexico.
A zebu, in Texas, a Zebu?!?!  This animal is from south Asia.

We drive through a region called Brush Country.

We are in the Rio Grande valley, now the traffic will start!

It is very hot today!

All morning we tried to call the RV Park  Bit-O-Heave, but no answer.
Therefore, we just showed up un-announced.
The office is closed on the weekend.
After a little time, we got a hold of one of the camp host and got a site for a month.
We have site 813.

For photos of our site, it will be in a few days I think.

With a temperature of +31 C. or 87 F.  We go to the pool!

It was time to hit the water
The pool is at 90 F.
We stayed over two hours in the pool.
Of course, we meet some of the other Winter Texan.

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Monday November 24, 2014.

As usual after pulling the car, time to hit the car wash.

A little Squidgy...

Our car finally went over 100,000 kilometers or a little over 62000 miles.
I am sure many of you wonder if this includes the kilometers pulled behind the motorhome!  The answer is no. No kilometers are recorded by the car odometers.
One day, I will have to do the total of both numbers and see what are the real kilometers of the car.

It is time to become Winter Texan at least for a month or two or three!

We celebrate this with a good raclette.

A toast to us!

  
A toast to all who cannot be with us.

I finally caught up to my blog's update.
In a few days we will be going to Mexico and check out the dentist.  I need to finish the work they started last winter and install the two post and crowns.
Until next time.

Life is good!

17 to 20 November, 2014.

Monday November 17, 2014.

We went for a little grocery shopping with Charles this morning.

We also stopped for a quick look at the liquor store next door.

My goodness!  This store has about 10 bottles altogether.  People don't drink in this town!

After lunch, we went geocaching with Charles and Agnes.  It is their first time geocaching.
Here I am reading some information and hints about this cache.

The first cache is located in the small cemetery called Gustavo A Dias.  The arrow indicates the location of the cache.

We have to be careful before we can put our hands in the cache.  This is Texas and there are some nasty bug and snakes here!

The container.

The content.  You take something and you leave something.  You also write your name and date you found the cache.

The hitching post between Charles and me.

We are off to the next cache.  We think Charles and Agnes are hooked on this activity.

The majorities of the caches in Goliad are located in cemeteries.

This is one big caterpillar, about two inches long.

This cache is located in one of the fence post.  Can you see the container?

Sometime the containers are very small like this one.

This cemetery had three caches.

Bad luck or lack of preparedness, my GPS batteries died on us during the last three caches.  Playing with the GPS, I managed to make it work just long enough to find the caches.


This photo is for Michele's brother.  His name is Patrice.

Charles and Agnes joined us for diner tonight.

We played Mexican Train and laughed so much!

We walked about 6 miles today.

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Tuesday November 18, 2014.

We are visiting the "Mission Espiritu Santo".
The Mission was established by Spain in 1722 to convert the local tribes to the Catholic religion.
The Mission was moved to this location in 1749.  The Mission was also a working Ranch with more than 40,000 cattles.

Part of the gang.

The wheels used in this area during that time were different from the one up north.  They have no spoke and are completely filled wheel.

The small bells used during mass.

This chapel is very simple yet beautiful. 

The statue representing Jesus and other characters are different looking than ours in Canada.  The reason is the Spanish influence.
At the time, the Spanish Catholic religion was more centered on suffering and fear.  Notice the statue of Marie, she has a knife/sword in her heart.  This represents her suffering at seeing her son on the cross.

Our guide was very good.  We were the only one with him so we got the "extra" tour.  He gave us a lot more information then he usually gives.

Usually, you cannot go behind the fence area, but with us, we went and looked a lot closer at everything.

He also showed us this leave.  It feels like sandpaper.

This is what they call Ball Moss.  It is not a parasite plant.  It only hang on something and grows in to a ball shape plant.

The funny guy is Charles!

Now a little more serious.

Since the Mission is in a State Park, we went for a walk on one of the trails.  We even looked for one more cache.  This one was not a micro size one!

Here is one that is micro size.

Another small one, can you see it in the middle of the photo?

Charles is opening one of the cache we found.

The treasures inside.

 This was a very good day with good friends.

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Wednesday November 19, 2014.

We left our friends behind, they have company coming for a visit  We are on our way to Victoria.  It is about 30 miles east of here.

This is the Victoria county courthouse.  It was built in 1892 and restored in 2001.  It was voted one of the top ten favorite's historic courthouse in Texas.

We tour the inside of the courthouse, but we have to be careful, a trial is going on.
We went in those doors and watched a trial going on for about 15 minutes.  Of course we could not take any photo in court.

A birds eye view of Victoria in 1873.

Some more photos of the inside.  Notice the arrow pointing at what looks like smiley faces!

A water fountain with blue water???

A monument to the Confederate soldiers.

Our reflection from an office window, I wonder what the person on the other side was thinking!

This mural represents a business street in the early twentieth century.

The "Fossati's Delicatessen" is considered the oldest deli in Texas.

We had lunch in here.

In addition, it was good!

The "Street of Ten Friends" as it was known for a long time, was named "Main Street" after.  Why this name?  Read about it below.

The next photos are about some of the old and pretty houses of Victoria.

This one is here because I cannot believe some people lives there!

 Back to the pretty houses.

Our next place to visit the "Museum of the Coastal Bend".

A quote from the brochure. "This museum showcases the region's rich multicultural heritage".
Here are some spear points, not arrow points, they did not have bow and arrows here 13,000 years ago!

So, they used spears!
To give the spear more power, they invented the Atlatl or the spear-thrower.

Our first "Longhorn", in a photo!

I think this is cool. 

Some of the branding marking from the area.

We had a very good visit in Victoria.

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Thursday November 20, 2014.

Charles and Agnes are leaving us this morning.  Sniff, sniff!

Agnes hard at work, Charles is also working hard.

I watch them getting ready to leave!!!

We have decided to stay until Sunday.  We need more relaxing time!

For the  last few days I was working on the latest update to our blog.  At the same time learning the ins and outs of blogger.  In the end, this move to blogger will make it easier for me.

On this, I hope you will continue to follow our travels.

 
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Until next time.

Life is goood!