Off Day

If you are ever RVing through Arlington, Texas, this is the place to stay.

Treetops RV Park used to be a mobile home park but in the ‘80s they converted to an RV park. The city grew up around Treetops and now it is a cozy oasis in the middle of the North Texas Metroplex. The Metroplex is like LA because it includes a bunch of cities; Dallas, Ft. Worth, Arlington (pop. 400,000), Irving, Plano, Garland, etc. One block south of Treetops is a huge Super Target and lots of strip mall businesses. Two blocks east is the Three Parks Mall which is about 2 square miles of big box stores; Dillards, Linen and Things, Barnes & Noble, you get the picture. I am not exaggerating about the size, it is about a mile on the Cooper Street side and another mile on the Arbrook side. In addition to all the commercial conveniences, the people here are very nice.

It’s been raining here for three straight days and has postponed Saturday’s big NASCAR race just north of here at the Texas Motor Speedway. It is rescheduled for today (the race, not the rain). Yesterday I just relaxed and did my laundry, made some minor repairs to Shirley, and caught up on administrative duties. I was able to connect to the park’s cable and discovered the news of the world. It is very easy to have a disconnect when you drive from dawn to dusk with only a break for a baseball game. I must confess, I did watch the Rangers at the Yankees.

I had hoped to have Shirley’s radiator worked on today. The afternoon before I left, my mechanic found a small leak. I put some Bars Leak in it and it has been fine. Phyllis got on the internet and found a place that can fix Shirley up but unfortunately they couldn’t do it. After two more visits to radiator shops I found a place that can. They said it would take three or four days to get the radiator and another day to install it. I said that wouldn’t work and they reached into their magic bag of tricks and found one locally. I will drop Shirley off in the morning and they can replace the radiator while I drive the rental car to Houston. She should be all finished when I get back Wednesday.

I visited Dealey Plaza and the 6th Floor Museum today. The museum is in the Texas Book Depository Building where Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK. It is very well done and if you are of the JFK generation you should not miss it when visiting Dallas. Two things really impressed me. One, how close Oswald actually was, and two, what a perfect widow Jackie was.



I plan to visit the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth Wednesday or Thursday.