East View RV Ranch, Georgetown, TX

We left Kerrville a little later than we normally hit the road, but we had a shorter drive, and we weren't supposed to check in here until 1:00, so we had a little extra time to just relax and drink coffee this morning.

One thing we have to watch out for when traveling is that we don't end up on tiny roads that may have low bridge clearances or weight restrictions, but that is sometimes hard to judge on google maps... Brad chose our route today to avoid driving through Kerrville again, which had some tight turns, which we also try to avoid.

We ended up on some of those tiny, winding roads by doing that though...

This one was better than the first one we were on... The first one wasn't even wide enough to have a center line.  Lots of low-water bridges too, and they all had flood measurement stakes beside them that extended above the roadway... A little concerning!  Glad we weren't driving through any of the flood areas!

Here's the road I navigated us onto... Note the 4 lanes!

We did see some nice scenery.  Well, I did anyway.  Brad pretty much had his eyes glued to the road

I was a little worried about checking into this RV park, the East View RV Ranch.  When I called, they had all kinds of questions, including the make, model, and year of our truck and RV.  When I told the lady our RV is a 1998, she said they had a 10-year rule on RV's... Is ours in good shape?  Does it look nice?  I told her I thought it looked pretty good on the outside, and we had completely redone the inside, so she decided to let us in anyway, since we're only staying 2 nights.

I looked on the website later, and saw where it said that, about the 10-year thing, but it also said you could send in pics for approval.  So I was just hoping we weren't going to stick out like a sore thumb when we got here.

Once we pulled in, I quit worrying.  There are several that are at least as old as ours is.

And there's even this tiny one that is probably about the size of our truck camper was.

There are a lot of shiny newer ones, too... But about the same as most of the parks we've stayed at.

I wouldn't necessarily call this a "ranch" either, but it does have a nice view toward the east... Hence the name "East View".

We're settling in to watch football now, and have a quiet evening.

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We bought some salmon yesterday at the store when we were stocking up (never know what the grocery shopping scene is at the next place) and we decided to cook it up today.  Brad got the smoker going, and I improvised on a marinade I looked up online.  You were supposed to use onion powder and garlic powder, but I used finely diced onions and garlic, because that's what I had on hand.  That was mixed with cayenne pepper and Cajun seasoning, and then some brown sugar, and olive oil.  Sooooo yummy!  The only thing that might have made it better would have been to marinate the salmon for a few hours, or overnight, instead of just a few minutes, before cooking, but it was pretty dang amazing the way it was.  Just the right amount of sweet and spicy.

Salmon

Mixing up the marinade.

Ready to go!

The Royals grill tools came in handy!

So yummy!