SCRR at Alamo Lake

February 3 to 6, 2020

  
Our sites were at the lake end of the campground, and we had beautiful views.



In this loop, the left side of the road was water and electric sites.  The right side was dry camping.  It's pretty
obvious what the general choice was!


  
I t was pretty breezy the first night, so Verne offered us the use of his beautiful coach.  On the left we see (l to r) Jeanne, Kim, Jeanne, Clarence, Peter, Verne, and Judy.
On the right we have Verne, Judy, Carol, Marv, Peter's head, Jeanne, and Kim.  Missing are Rich and Dick (the photographer).


  
We were concerned about how to handle Tuesday's breakfast as the wind had picked up.  We discovered that on the other side
of the motor home, the wind was almost calm, so we moved there and had a very pleasant breakfast, although the tables were still on the
 other side.  That day, Dick moved his motor home over to make room for the tables on the blacktop and the rest of our meals were
on the calm side.  We invited Marcia and Bobby, the couple who are going to present a fire prevention clinic later in the day, to our
breakfast.  They are shown seated in the upper right of the picture.

Dick is cooking the pancakes in his motor home, as the tables were still on the windy side, and there was a question of whether the grill could
stay hot enough with a cool breeze across it.


  
We had heard that the wild burros roamed plentifully around this whole area, so we were disappointed that we did not see any, in spite of plenty of evidence
on the road coming in.  On Wednesday morning someone said that there were burros on the hill across the road.  We eventually all spotted them.  They were tiny
 and hard to spot at that distance.  The two we saw are enlarged about 50 times here, between camera zoom and cropping.  We never saw any others.


  
There were beautiful sunsets at the lake.



Here Marcia is presenting information on fire safety and prevention.  She had some very good tips and suggestions. Bobby was
at the computer to the left of this picture controlling the pictures on the TV and adding to the commentary.  It wasn't until the very
end of the talk that she introduced the product line of affordable  automatic fire suppression tubes for which they are independent reps.
These tube are heavy plastic filled with high pressure retardant chemicals - the safe replacement for Halon.  Mounted passively
in potential danger spots, a fire starting will melt the tube where it is the hottest, and in a burst dispense the retardant, usually
putting out the fire almost instantly.  Their products look interesting and the company is partnered with FMCA.
To see what they look like, go to www.proteng.com.



One of the tips they feel the strongest about is the B.O.B., the Bug Out Bucket.  This is important for everyone, but
especially for full timers who carry everything with them.  The B.O.B. is a bucket containing all the items you might need
if disaster strikes and you are suddenly forced out of your rig.  For instance, any cell phone, activated or not can call 911, and
your other vehicle is useless if you were not able to grab its keys on your hurried (panicked) way out.  Marcia spent a lot
of time going through each of the items  and explaining the reason for their inclusion.  It was a very informative talk.

You can pretty much read the list of items in spite of the inadvertent self-portrait of  Dick using his cell phone to
photograph the list.