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Our trip to the Caribbean with the kids was a great way to get re-energized. Now back in Smithville, it is time to get ready to leave Texas for an extended period on the road. Our first tasks to accomplish include a number of medical appointment for the two of us. A check up here and there to make sure we are good to go in the physical department. With that out of the way, we said our good-byes to the villagers and departed Smithville. This year-round, family friendly campgro

We got back from our second RVICS project on Thursday to pack for our upcoming cruise departing on Sunday. Our son Nick and granddaughters, Morgan and Grace were arriving from Sacramento on Saturday night for this week-long Royal Caribbean cruise out of Galveston. Our destinations included two days at sea before our first port of call in Roatan, Honduras, on to Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico before returning to Galveston. Our ship was the Allure of the Sea , a 225,282-gross-t

With week one completed, we all moved into our week two and three working rythyms. The women continued building the new queen beds for more of the conference center lodging venues while the men started construction of a new storage shed behind to the kitchen and dining facility. This was not some 'kit' but was constructed the old fashioned way, from the needed raw materials provided by the camp. The 12' by 18' shed would be constructed from the ground up between their covered

After Camp Zephyr we returned to the RVICS Village on Friday, February 27 for an Italian potluck dinner. Karen and I had medical appointments for the coming week before our next project. On Wednesday, March 4th we drove up to a US Army Corps of Engineers Park outside of Waco, Texas for two nights. Karen was able to spend some time with her friend Lisa Stary who lives in Waco and also get a haircut. I spent my time working on a USCG Auxiliary specialist course in Marine Safet

With the bunk beds built and ready for a couple of coats of polyurethane, the ladies took over. The men moved into the new Dimmick building under construction to start paneling out the four dormitory rooms for the campers. Two rooms for the girl campers and two rooms on the south side for the boys. We set up a large table at the end of the table saw to accommodate the cut sections of 4x8 T1-11. It also made a great platform for cutting out some of the switch and outlet holes

The RVICS men started working on Monday, February 9th here at Zephyr on our first building project. The camp needed another 22 bunk beds constructed for their new dormitory. While we were cutting 2x6's and 2x4's, the women were tasked with inspecting all the cabins and hotel rooms to create a punch list of any and all needed repairs before the camping season began. They followed that assignment by sanding the 18 "well used" bunks beds in preparation for a new coat of polyuret