College Station Andy of MyOldRv and his lady love Miss Kathy of San Marcos have been through some hard times lately, including a South Texas hail storm that did in their OldRV and their paid-for (naturally) Suburban.
It put them to seeking (and thankfully finding) temporary substitutes, as they save for permanent while still making a livin’ gate-guardin’ in the shale oil patch. As always, Andy’s posts are worth reading and you might even click through their Amazon link when you want to buy something anyway to help them out a little. As payment for a good read.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Thanks, Dick. I’m always up for a good suggestion. The wife and I are thinking about a new pop-up as a starter.
We thought about that, though we had a 22-foot cabin sailboat at the time. Fact was, Mr. B. wasn’t fond of either the boat or the idea of a pop-up. He was/is a child of air-conditioning and doesn’t fancy being outside in the heat.
Well, it is difficult to get an internet connection.
True, but it’s the lack of air-conditioning that got him at a young age. “It’s too hot,” he would say of the outdoors. “It’s too hot.”
I sometimes forget that I didn’t grow up with air-conditioning. We didn’t even get window units until I was in high school and then only in a few rooms.
“I sometimes forget that I didn’t grow up with air-conditioning.”
I guess that argument hardly works on Mr B. 😉
Arguments don’t work with adolescents, as I’m sure you know, except for the all-purpose “because I said so” coupled with a threat of removal of some sacred object. Such as the iPhone his mother recently awarded him for closing out sixth grade with an A average, albeit at 90.03 the lowest A possible.
Yes, it was a different age back then. I grew up around Corpus Christi; no air conditioning at home until I was 10 or so. No a/c as a student until I was a junior in high school.
I had my first birthday in Texas but didn’t grow up here since my father was Air Force, and we lived in many different places, states and foreign countries. Besides the occasional window unit, I mostly recall encountering Central AC in movie theaters. We didn’t have it at home until I was in college and visiting now and then.