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One more load to the motorhome today... and it made the change from being a paperweight in the storage unit to being an RV...

Rusty, who owns the storage units, offered us his paved site to finish loading and getting the coach prepped.  Very handy!  We put our cargo trailer in our storage unit for the night, since it is loaded and ready to roll.

While Joan put stuff away inside the coach, I started the water system sanitizing and got the towing equipment ready to go on the CR-V.  That left us with the afternoon to get the house closed down.

A 30% chance of rain happened on the way home...

We lost over an hour while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic a couple miles outside of town...

Absolute stop and go for that 2 1/2 miles... more stop than go.  The reason is two-fold: more power pole construction closed off one lane in-bound... for about a 3 block stretch.  They could have used the center turn lane to keep traffic flowing towards the beach, but apparently that was beyond the comprehension of the local Po-Po.  The other issue is there is simply more traffic than I have ever seen heading to the beach on South Padre Island.  The Covid-19 situation must have more people out of work, so... "Let's go to the beach!"

Here's the construction that was the cause of the backup...

Seriously, immediately after that lane closure, traffic was flowing smoothly.  Right before that construction, there are 4 stoplights that are not timed to keep traffic moving.  Two highways that come together right on the edge of town.  And stupid people who think the shoulder is a travel lane; it isn't.  Instead of directing traffic to keep things moving, the Police were pulling over people who drove on the shoulder... well, catching maybe one out of twenty.  And the other 19 were trying to squeeze back into the traffic lanes before the first intersection.  Drivers here seem incapable of sharing the road or taking turns to merge into one lane.  A total shit-show.  The Police could have controlled the traffic lights and directed traffic to keep things moving.  Instead, you'd have people stopped across an intersection, meaning people on the cross road couldn't merge.

Once we cleared the lane closure, it was just a few minutes to our island.  And then hard at it to put away our outdoor stuff (it's "hurricane season")... anything you leave outside could become a missile in hurricane force winds.  When we went through a hurricane 12 years ago, it wasn't the wind that did damage, as much as what is in the wind.  And, 2020 has been an interesting year, so we want the house as prepped as possible.

At this point, only last minute things to take care of in the morning.  Yep, it is a process; one we are still willing to go through to be able to travel in comfort.

Rufus knows something is up; the boy is perceptive.  He didn't get to go outside this afternoon, because I had sprayed for bugs and weeds.  After two years with us, I think he knows that he goes where we go.

That's the way we roll.