White Sands

We left Titusville, Florida three weeks ago on August 1^st, on a leisurely trip towards Colorado in our COVID-19 bubble, aka motorhome.

We spent a couple of days in Destin, but didn’t go to the beach because there were too many families on vacation milling about. We stopped in Biloxi for a couple of nights, then on to Louisiana and Texas. We headed to Castroville, just west of San Antonio, to Alsatian RV Resort. We met Jeff and Carol there, who drove up from the Rio Grande Valley, in their motorhome for the weekend.

The following Monday, we visited Julie’s 89-year old mom through the glass at her assisted living facility in San Antonio. We had made previous arrangements with the staff for the visit. The visit was especially hard for Julie’s old mom, as we don’t think she fully understood the coronavirus and why we couldn’t see her in person.

Later, we met old friends Peggi and her dad Buzz at Tiu Steppi's for a mid-afternoon lunch. It was the first time we had been inside a restaurant since early-March. There was hardly anyone there and I was impressed by the restaurant taking our temperature at the front door. The Italian food was really good.

We headed to Kerrville on Tuesday, August 11^th, where we had an appointment to get our motorhome’s AquaHot unit serviced and two new chassis batteries installed. We hunkered down at Buckhorn Lake Resort for three nights. While there, we ended up changing our plans to go to San Angelo, and instead added another three nights at Buckhorn Lake.

We left Kerrville this past Monday for the long drive across west Texas, with stops in Fort Stockton and Las Cruces, NM. On Wednesday morning, we drove east about 35-miles from Las Cruces to the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range garrison. 

We’re staying at the military campground on post for $10/night. It’s our first-time here. We have a great view of the mountains and the hummingbirds are very active.

Our new home construction is coming along nicely. They have finished the drywall installation, taping and texturing. They have finished painting the outside of the house. We chose paint scheme 7 where the house body color is “reclining green”. They’ll paint the inside of the house next, followed by tiling the whole house.    

Stay safe out there!

Steve & Julie Cornelius