Dan and Sandy – On the Move in Texas
We always love getting together with friends and meeting new people as we go about our travels.
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Tag: Lake Charles
Dan and Sandy – Louisiana, Texas Beaches, and Mardi Gras
We’ll be in Galveston for just over a month, staying at the Galveston Island KOA as well as Galveston Island State Park. During the month, I have a total of nine book signing and speaking events between Kroger and the KOA.
Between the activities at the campground and Mardi Gars, Sandy and I have been really active since we have arrived at the KOA. It’s a great campground with an amazing staff, and tons of activities for all ages.
We love coming to Galveston. It’s is such a cool little city. It’s an island town with a charming little downtown area. Sandy has even mentioned that this may be the spot that we settle down at after if we decide to trade in the nomad lifestyle for something less mobile.
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Dan and Sandy – Cracker Barrels, Krogers, and a Casino
We left Melbourne on January 2nd to start my first book signing tour of 2024. We drove to Ormond Beach and had dinner with our nephew Daniel and my cousin Debi and her husband, Kenny.
After dinner, we drove to Tallahassee for the night.
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A Return Visit to Sam Houston Jones State Park
Among many other things, our group built a fence at the entrance, repainted the office, built tent pads, built a 500’ fishing pier/boardwalk, repainted signs, cleaned up tons of debris, grinded countless stumps, planted wildflowers, refinished playground equipment, cleared and rebuilt the Orange Trail, built culvert dams, and painted a flag pole.
It was a project that was extremely gratifying.
I think even more so for Sandy and I because we have friends in the area and we helped with relief efforts in the area a couple of weeks after Laura came through.
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I’ve Been So Busy!
I really liked getting to meet so many new people in Lake Charles. I met Janet and Amy and Dave and Stan and Eric and Marty and Barrett and Cody and Brittany. Barrett and Cody and Brittany even came to visit me in the house on wheels. They all said that they were there to do a podcast with daddy, but I know that they just used that as an excuse to hang out with me for a little while, but I’ll let daddy think that they were there for his podcast. I even got to talk a little bit on the podcast that daddy did with Barrett. Daddy didn’t seem really happy about that, but I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew that I was there too.
I also loved getting to see people that I already knew again! I got to see Phil and Shar and Mike and Terri and John and Karen and Orien and Jeff and Susan again. Phil and Shar and Mike and Terri all came to visit me in the house on wheels too. I made sure that I really rubbed up on Phil and Shar so that Domino knew that his mommy and daddy were with me. I had more visitors in the house on wheels during this project than ever before!
I also got to see Lori a couple of times again when we were in Lake Charles, she even came to the park to visit me in the house on wheels.
It was the greatest thing ever! I love getting visitors in the house on wheels because they all pet me really good.
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Mike and Terri McIlraith – Fellow Full-timers with a Passion to Give Back
Mike and Terri are fellow full-time RVers who have an incredible passion to give back. We first met them in Antigo, Wisconsin during our first A Year to Volunteer project at the Raptor Education Group. Sandy and I arrived at the project midway through. We were working on different parts of the project, so we really didn’t have much of an opportunity to get to know them.
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The Gratitude of a Community
A Year to Volunteer has taken over Sam Houston Jones State Park for the next two weeks! This group of ninja volunteers is ready to help with the continued restoration efforts from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020.
This beautiful park needs a lot of TLC.
Sandy and I were here for a short time between the two storms and the one thing that stood out then was the resilience of this community.
This time around, it’s the gratitude of this community.
From the owner of The Laundromat in Sulphur who let us do Laundry for free when he heard that we were helping, to the A-Plus RV Park who let us dump and fill our tanks, to the Deputy Sheriff who is patrolling the park, to the members of the Henning United Methodist church that we attended with our dear friend, Lori Carter Pritchett who all thanked us for being here to lend a hand, it was nothing but gratitude that was expressed to us.
The material things in this community may have been crushed by those storms, but its spirit was not.
Many people outside the area have forgotten about it, but there is still so much more work to be done.
You may not be able to volunteer for two weeks, but there are other ways to help.
Research how to give and how to help. I’ll try to get some of our friends in the area to put some links to ways to help in the comments.
Just because it’s not in the news everyday doesn’t mean that the job is complete.
Do what you can with what you have.
Peace.
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