Back at Home Base, Weatherford, TX

The upper falls at Mckinney Falls State Park. This is a three pic panorama. See the links for the individual pics for this shot. We did have a good time there. The weather was nice with afternoon showers and temps in the upper 80's. We got away about 11:30 am and made it home in 5 hours. The house a/c worked all the way back. It didn't work all the way down running off the genset. The a/c works great on shore power and on the way back. We had the two units charged in 05 and they will freeze you out of the rv if you want it to. Our rear thermostat is not working now. The time we were at Ancira this year, the cost for a new one was $150.00. Going to look around for a usable replacement at a realistic price. This is like their $7xx jacks that I can buy for $4xx of the Power Gear website. Simply money hungry.

We got up this morning and arrived at the Ford dealer, a whole mile away, around 8 am. It was noon when we got the rv back. I had the oil changed while there, $48.50. The culpert was the high pressure switch went bad and would not let the system work. Fixed that and its coooold air now. All is good.

Next trip is not in the plans as of now. So you that are traveling, drive save and stop often.

Views of Mckinney Falls State Park

The panaroma view of the lower falls at the park. This and the upper falls are in the panaroma folder on our link page. We took a walk down the path to the falls and took this. The ten, yes ten, pics are in the state park folder. We are next door to the airport an in the city of Austin, TX.

The rear view of our space and the front view too. Its a little uphill and the rear jacks are way up. As the pic does show, we are twisted a bit to get level, kinda. We find most of the state parks are unlevel and have the connections in the wrong place. Our 30 foot shore line is stretched to its limit. Any further forward with the rv puts us even more up hill. We located our DTV and DW dishes as shown to get our tv and internet.















Some of the pics I took of the area. I thought this one of the upper falls thru the tree was neat. The wild flowers are in bloom and simply gorgeous. Even the butterfly was pretty. Oh, you dont see it, see our links for the full open wing view. And other pics of the area. If you haven't been here, do come. For your internet access you will need to be picky as most of this loop is to green. The other loop is totally out with the canopy above.

We have been blessed with rain, clouds and cooler weather. In fact the a/c is off and the windows are open to catch the cool air. The roof top a/c is noisy so we open up when we can. Even though we are near the airport, its still nice and quite.

We will go back tomorrow about noon and hope we have cool weather that way. With no dash air, its hot up there. i did post a message to the service writer and made a call that we would be there Thursday am.

Greetings From McKinney Falls State Park, Austin, TX

We left Weatherford, TX and drove to Austin for a few days. Our first trip since we got here in May. And our first trip since the rv was back in the Ford shop for the dash air repair, again. And it will be back there again when we get back Thursday morning. Started the rv, no dash cold air.







We arrived here around 3:30 pm and it was a hot drive. Without dash air, the front of the rv was very warm. These are pics of the local critters and we saw more coming in, They had their two "babies" out feeding. These have the pretty tan color.

More pics tomorrow of our spot and the area around us. We are 3 miles from the Austin Bergstrom airport. Shirley said we were 13 miles to the capitol. Lots of trees, quite, and $16.00 a night for water, electric and a dump station. We will be here just two nights.

GPS: 30*10.802'N, 97*43.456W
Directway: 148*, 51*, -24*
DTV: about 10* west of the DW dish with elevation preset. Thats how I do it.
Mileage: 220.9 down US281 to TX71.