New Friends in the Rio Grande Valley

Since this is our fifth year spending a month or more at Bentsen Grove Resort, it is fun to spend time with old friends that we met in years' past. But it's also fun to meet new friends. We were certainly delighted when we were contacted by Mike and Sandy Mills, who have found our blog on-line and wanted to meet in person. Mike writes a very entertaining blog--mills-travels.blogspot.com.  While reading their blog we already knew that we had much in common. So we were honored to meet them for lunch one Sunday, and find out that his sense of humor is just as much fun in person. We thought the picture we took outside the Griffin Grill was good, but Mike didn't like Sandy's purse "that was big enough to carry a small child" in the picture we took that day. So it was our good fortune that we got to see them again for another picture in front of our motor home.

They full-time in a Tiffin motor home, so we got to compare notes as we visited inside our rig. Sandy is a retired teacher, and the perfect "straight man" for Mike's pilot antics. We also found that Mike is playing the piano for the Sunday services at their RV park this winter. So we were honored when he sat down in front of our electric keyboard to play us a tune! When we compared notes, we found that we had been at the same rally in 2012. We think it is great fun to meet new friends on the road!

Another new friend we met is also musically talented. We went to the Molly B show when she was touring through South Texas. During a single show, she demonstrated that she can play the piano, trumpet, alto saxophone, accordion, clarinet, drums, euphonium, tenor sax, pocket trumpet, melodica, valve and slide trombones, Alphorn, and probably any other instrument she can get her hands on. Mark's parents have been fans of hers for years, so we had to get a picture of her before the show began. Her fans probably already know that she made her Hollywood appearance this spring in Clint Eastwood's new film, "The Mule." It seems that Clint watches her show on television every Saturday night as well.

One of our favorite parts of the full-time RVing lifestyle is getting to meet new and interesting people! We'll be following Mike and Sandy's blog now, and we hope to see them many more times down the road. As for Molly, we might have to be content to see her on the big and little screens.