December 31, 2016. A Rainy Day at Gulf Coast RV Resort, Beaumont, TX.

December 31, 2016.  A Rainy Day at Gulf Coast RV Resort, Beaumont TX.  We expected to be on Galveston Island today.  We  awoke to a steady, if light rain.  The RV park serves a hot breakfast at the club house.  We walked, using an umbrella, to the club house, ate and returned to Harvey.  The rain had gotten heavier.  Neither of us wanted to spend the day driving in the rain.  Moreover, we didn't have to.  We had no reservation on the island so we opted to stay put.  I paid the nice lady in the office for another night and we spent most of the day in Harvey, reading and napping to the pitter-patter of the falling rain reverberating off the top of Harvey.

The rain finally slowed about 4:00 PM.  We ventured out for a walk and discovered the roads within the park to be covered with water.  The land is exceedingly flat here and there was no place for the water to go.  Several of the concrete roads were covered with standing water.  We both returned to Harvey with wet shoes.  Annie's jeans were wet about six inches from the hems.  Her socks were soaked.

There is a pool here, but it isn't heated.  Too bad.  This would have been a good day to take a swim.  We were already wet.

The line of rocking chairs is entirely appropriate.  Most of the people here are in their 60s and 70s and up.  However, there were no takers as we passed by this afternoon.  On another day, I can imagine old timers sitting, rocking, whittling, jawing, and maybe spitting.  They would be telling stories of back home and their work lives before becoming road warriors.  It would have been spellbinding stuff.

We will bypass Galveston tomorrow.  We are scheduled to be on Mustang Island, part of Padre Island, near Corpus Christie tomorrow night.  We will be there for a while unless we grow restless or the weather doesn't cooperate.  We came to the Gulf Coast of Texas searching for warmer weather.  Last winter on the Alabama coast it was chilly.  If we don't find warm weather on Mustang Island, we'll just move further south.  The only limitation is the Mexican border.  Neither of us have any interest in driving Harvey in Mexico.  That is probably just our ignorance.  But, hey, that's who Malachi and Annie are.

Goodnight.