Livingston and Slidell

Monday, we left Castaways for Livingston after Brenda finished her appointments.
The trip was pretty uneventful and we got both the MH and the car inspected in Livingston before we went to the park. We are now legal.

Rainbows End is a nice park and we took the tour of the park on Tuesday.
It was interesting and we learned a lot about the Escapees Club that we didn't know.
We toured the mail facility and we now know why it is so efficient. They are really organized there.
We got to see our 'home'. It is a legal file folder and box when the file folder gets too much mail. Very interesting.
That file folder, by Federal law, is our legal residency. The Escapees club was very instrumental in getting that law passed after full time RVer's  were sued for trying to establish residency with out a permanent structure as a home, back in 2000. It was a voting issue initiated by the people of Polk County, TX.
We won, and I don't vote in local elections. We are only there once or twice a year for a few days.

We had a talk from Mark Nemeth, who is the Technical Advisor for the club. He also writes an article in the Escapees magazine.
He wears many hats for the organization and seems to be proficient in all of his jobs.

We took the trolley around the park and we stopped at Joe & Kay Peterson's home to look at the memorial garden that was put in front of their home.
They started the club back in 1970 and are SKP # 1.
They are not active in the club like they used to be, as both are now in their 80's.
They are very nice people and came out to talk with us while we were admiring their garden.
We also learned that our SKP # will never be reused. When we quit the club or die the number is retired.

The trip to Slidell was much more eventful. The roads through Beaumont and parts of Louisiana make California roads look great. things in the coach were all over the place.
Cabinet doors came open, and the closet door came off of it's slide. It was a mess in here. We cleaned it up and all is well now.

The park is a nice place. We are in the back with the long term. neatly arranged with no dilapidated trailers or MH's.
The site is paved and level and all of the utilities work.
They don't allow a lot of junk on the sites so it is pretty neat. Each site has a small picnic table and a grassy area. And it is quiet here.
We are going to be a month.
We now have satellite TV again after 2 months.
I didn't know that coaxial cable can go bad, but after about 4 hours of working with the system, I finally replaced the cable between the dish and the coach. It started working.
It worked at Lake Sammamish, so I don't know what happened to the cable  between then and now.
It is working so that is all that matters.

Ta ta for now.