Monday, September 28


 Started our retirement on September 11th. I want to thank all of the Molded Fiber Glass teammates for the wonderful compliments and well wishes. 

The first stop was Okaw Kamp Ground in south-central Illinois  

Okaw Valley Kampground
1341 East 1650 Avenue
Boley Drive
Interstate 70, Exit 68
Brownstown, IL 62418
(618) 427-5140
EMAIL US
Visited with my sister and her husband for the week. We went to Edwardsville, IL to visit our parent gravesites and Karen's brother Kris and his wife Kathy. 
A visit to St. Louis for some photographs. 


Headed off to Texas with several stops along the drive to relax and visit our Nephew at Steve F Austin college Stephen F Austin is an above-average public university located in Texas. It is a mid-size institution with an enrollment of 9,376 undergraduate students. The Stephen F Austin acceptance rate is 100%. Popular majors include Liberal Arts and Humanities, Kinesiology and Exercise Science, and Business. in Nacogdoches, Texas.



The next stop for the motorhome was New Caney, Texas. 

New Caney is an Unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas, the United States within the Houston–The Woodlands-Sugar


Land metropolitan area. As of 2010, the population of the New Caney area is 19,987.
We are living here in the motorhome for a month. We are working on our Texas residency and driver's licenses. While here, we are visiting with our nephew Benjamin. 


He and I are both into railroading. Here we visited Hearne, TX, and the Southern Pacific/Missouri Pacific depot built-in 1901. 



Next stop Galveston Island and the Stella Mare Camp Grounds in October.