What do they all have in common? I guess if I’d put Selena in the title too – more people may be able to guess what the group of names have in common, but I felt like that would make it too easy. All the people in the title sprang from my present work location… Corpus Christi Texas.
What a diverse group of folks huh? I’ll go ahead and tell you right now…. I haven’t seen too may Farrah’s “on the hoof” down here…. I’ll just leave it at that. Well, I will chance it and add this one thing then stop right there; The women walking the aisles of the local Wal Mart would more quickly be mistaken for Don William than one of “Charlie’s Angels”……
Before people start tossing tomatoes at me… Corpus is nice! Lots of water, a nice city marina, great sailing in CC Bay, good food, there are plenty of reasons to like Corpus and I do…. Really the only thing I have against CC is that it’s 7 hours home, so 2 day weekends aren’t worth the drive very often. The water is much nicer than Kemah, the bay is a great place to sail, in 2 or 3 hours I can sail to several beaches nice enough for Linda to bob around under the boat.
I can’t believe it’s the middle of the year already…. Lots to catch you up on so I’ll be brief. It looks like I’ll be working the current job until March of next year. It’s a long one because we actually have two jobs back to back. I’m only working 50 hours, the OT will start in September. Then October thru February 2014 its back to regular hours, then another month of OT to round out the first quarter of 2014. I like the folks I’m working with so things are going well.
Other big changes: SYL is here and we sail her often, but we are not liveaboards at the moment. Linda needed to be off the boat a while so we found her a land yacht.
- Yep, we are now trailer trash….
It’s hard to tell much about it in the picture, but it’s a Columbus 365 5th wheel travel trailer. The thing I liked best about it is the construction, it’s made like a boat (cheap boat, but more like a boat than a rolling storage shed). It has a welded aluminum frame, then the form is built with solid foam blocks. 9″ thick on the roof, 8″ underneath, then they laminate gelcoated fiberglass to the foam outside, the inside is also laminated to the foam. It’s pretty solid. Linda’s new box has 4 slide outs, one for the bed, a kitchen slide, and opposing slides in the living area. The one slide you can see in the picture contains the recliners and kitchen table.