RV Park Life - Covid-style

We are very close to our destination for the next month, but we are aiming for a specific arrival date. So we had one more campground stop.  We found a Passport America park with half-price rates just north of Edinburg, Texas. We had one evening at Lazy Palms Ranch RV Park to check out their facilities. They advertise that they have country living at its best, and this is a peaceful place to spend the winter. We have to agree that it is quiet here because it is in the middle of no where. We checked out the park's stocked fish pond on this beautiful blue-sky day.

Since Denisa has been taking pictures of birds for the last three days, of course she had to take a photo of the resident ducks at our RV park.

Unlike all those birds at the state park, this flock is leaving duck egg calling cards in the grass around the pond.

We are seeing our first example of what the Covid pandemic has done to the south Texas RV parks. This is where people come from up north to spend the entire winter season, enjoying fun activities with friends. But the swimming pool was closed, and all the activities have been canceled. The recreation hall was locked up, and it felt like a ghost town in a park that normally is busy. We certainly don't like the changes that Covid has brought to this RV park! 

We left the next morning for our last motor home drive for a while. We pulled into Bentsen Grove RV Resort in Palmview, Texas, the next morning.

We're in our usual site on 6th street, because Denisa chooses her site based on the kind of fruit trees around it. As soon as the motor home was backed in and hooked up, she was outside picking fruit. We have four different trees on our lot--a large lemon, a tiny tangerine, and two orange trees. We can tell that it was a dry summer, because our oranges aren't nearly as juicy as they should be. We're also sad to report that two of our other orange juice trees were cut down since last season. We assume that had to do with the damage from the hurricane that pounded this area last fall.

Denisa's Mother is the reason that we have spent time at this park for the past six winters. She has been coming here for 36 winters. So a stop at Bentsen Grove Resort means that we get to spend time with her.

If we run out of fruit at our camp site, Mother has more fruit at her place. She has a young navel orange tree that is producing well this year.

Her old tangerine tree in the back yard is full of the sweetest tangerines we have ever tasted.

Unlike the tiny cuties that we see in the grocery store, some of these tangerines are literally a hand-full.

We love being able to eat all that citrus fresh off the tree! That might be our main source of entertainment this month. Just like at Lazy Palms Ranch, most of the activities we enjoy at Bentsen Grove have been canceled. No music shows, no dances, no card-making class, no line dance class . . .  In fact, a very active resident of the park tested positive for Covid on the day that we arrived. That caused even the limited meals and activities to come to a halt. What terrible timing for us! So we are happy to be living where it is warm and the citrus fruit is ripe for the picking. But we aren't enjoying the changes to the RV park life that Covid is causing.