What a Difference a Fan Makes !

What a difference a fan makes!

Last night when we went to bed, it was about 86F. "Cool" for Texas. We hooked up the 30amp/110v adapter: 

Hooked up the extension cord:

Ran the multi-plug outlet into the extension cord (Ozark Trail has an "electrical cord hole" so you can run electric into the tent):

And plugged our fan into the multi-plug.

Worked really well. The two kids closest to the fan ended up sleeping under blankets last night. 

This particular fan is a bit under powered, and doesn't quite reach the far side of the tent (10 feet away.) We bought a box fan at another WalMart to put on the far side of the tent hopefully that will increase air flow even more.

So today we went and looked at a brand new home, cookie cutter. Oy. Ok, the big plus is they cover all the closing costs, and the HOA isn't out of control yet. But the homes themselves are pretty small for looking (on the outside) pretty big, and every home looks exactly the same.

We checked out an RV park near where we are staying at Lake Tawakoni. The Marina itself is nice, like, buy a boat and spend hours on the lake nice. It's inexpensive and I really like that commute down I-80 (for a long commute anyway) toward either Dallas or Tyler is pretty quick.

We checked out a mobile home park. It's okay. It's biggest claim to fame is that it is on barely the outskirts of Dallas so for commuting in to work there, it's pretty convenient. But as a place, it is barely better than an apartment. It's nice, but it's really an apartment. And about that expensive. It's hard to think about spending $12,000 in a year on just rent versus going "toward" something.

As I write we  are currently in Bridgeport. The kids bought a card game called "Bang" which was sent to the PO box. Since we were "halfway" there (Lake Tawakoni to Dallas) we went ahead and came all the way back to Bridgeport to get it. I have to say, I really like Bridgeport. It already feels like home, I know my way around it, but there's no internet out here!!  When you have to be at McDonald's and hope the internet works, you're really way out in the country.

We head for Lake Whitney, which is south toward Corsicana tomorrow.