Staying Put

Magnolia Beach is not much of a town.  A few narrow streets, clusters of small homes built on slabs, one place that looks like a metal scrap yard, and a gas station is about it.  We rode our bikes up and down nearly all of the streets.  It took us about ten minutes.

This morning Deb wanted to mail a couple of post cards she wrote to Alex, our grandson. Post cards, remember those?  We searched online for the nearest post office, which was in Port Lavaca, about ten miles away.  We asked a couple of county employees that happened to drive by us on the beach and they weren’t aware of any of the blue drop boxes in Magnolia Beach.  As we were riding through town this morning, we happened to see the mail carrier driving down the main street.  We flagged her down and asked if we could just hand the cards to her.  She looked a little confused for a bit as this probably doesn’t happen very often and then, after verifying the cards had postage, accepted them and was on her way.

I didn’t realize that mailing a post card would be such an ordeal.

Magnolia Beach may not be much of a town but it has a nice public beach.  Not the white sand that comes to mind when you hear the word ​beach​, but crushed shells.  So footwear is probably a good idea.

And this beach allows camping on the beach.  For free.  So there are a lot of value-oriented (i.e. cheap) people like us who spend a night or two or ten here.  We’re here for the second night, enjoying the lovely weather, the quietness, and the water just a few feet from our RV.  Since this is our second time here in two years, maybe that makes us regulars, along with many of the other people here.

Since we are staying put, we had a chance to catch up on a few things.  The cruise was a great time but all the activities and the shore excursions and the six meals a day left little time for anything else.  And it was an internet desert, unless you paid the twenty-five bucks a day for WiFi, which I did not.  So there was a number of things to catch up on; emails, church service, Bible studies, and a recorded informational meeting for our next trip at the end of April.  You’ll just have to stay tuned to find out what that is.

So we stayed here and took walks and bike rides and enjoyed the day.