Mission to San Antonio and on to Marshall Texas

We stayed for 2 weeks at Lemon Tree RV Inn in Mission TX.  At times it was very hot there -- one day the temperature reached 99F but we did get work done on the RV and had time for relaxation with our friends there. We enjoyed an amazing Easter dinner with 100 people attending at Lemon Tree's Community Center. The hams were provided by the park owners while the veggies and desserts were pot luck.

While in Mission, Vic spent 2 days installing the 4 new cameras with a new dash display unit for our rearview/sideview camera system.  The wiring for this system required crawling underneath the entire length of the motorhome to run the wiring along the frame. Not once...but twice as the first time the cable was put in back to front. Grrrr.

Our new auxiliary brake system for the HHR works like a charm.  10 years newer in design than our old system, more compact, easier to set up, and much lighter.

Thanks to Craigslist, Vic was able to replace his bicycle with a Mongoose model that had all the features he wanted at less than half the price of a brand new one.

We had the time to visit Express Optical in Nuevo Progresso to order new progressive lenses for Bev at 1/4 the cost she paid for the previous lenses in Ontario.  Vic purchased new frames and bifocal lenses also at significant savings.

While waiting for our lenses to be installed, we headed to a bar down the street.  It had tasty margaritas for $4 each and many comical signs.  One that caught our fancy said:
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MEN

No shirt
No shoes
No service

LADIES

No shirt
FREE drinks
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Alas, another problem appeared when we went to leave Lemon Tree RV Inn on Saturday Apr 2nd.  We opened the curtains at the front of the motorhome to find the windshield cracked top to bottom on the passenger side. But we headed out anyways as a recommended RV windshield specialist is located in the San Antonio area.

We drove to Braunig Lake RV Resort at the south east side of San Antonio and booked in with our 50%  discount thanks to our Passport America membership.  All places for RV windshield repair/replacement and the insurance company were closed for the weekend so it was time to putter on some other jobs.

view from our rear window of the fishing pond (catch and release only)

lots of Mallard ducks wandering around the fishing pond and not one Canada Goose!

a small fountain  in the fishing pond

spring is here -- flowers were popping out in the grass on our camp site

It was cool enough on the weekend for Vic to shampoo the carpeting in the motorhome and clean all the screens. Bev watched all the way through without breaking a sweat.

But when Monday came, calls to the RV windshield specialty shops revealed we would have to wait 5 days for a new windshield to be shipped from Indiana or California.

After many calls, we determined that the shipping time to get a windshield to San Antonio was too long. It would leave no time for a visit to La Porte Indiana with my brother and not enough time to get home. It would be easier to get the windshield replaced in Elkhart Indiana where the supplier of the windshield is located and is on our route home.  We spent most of Monday on the phone with our insurance company and the windshield supplier trying to make arrangements for the windshield to replaced before we have to cross the border on April 14th.

The only good news out of this fiasco is that there is a zero deductible. Wooo  Hooo! Free windshield.

We left the San Antonio area on Tuesday, Apr 5th to head to Laguna Vista RV Park in Marshall TX, about 75 miles south of Texarkana.  We will stay here for 2 days, then move on for 3 more stops before we proceed to Elkhart for the windshield installation.