To us, the very best part of our lifestyle is the many new friends that we have from our travels and our internet activity. I think that real friends are the most important thing that one can have to show for the time we spend in our travels.

Today we were fortunate to have lunch with fellow Escapees & work-camper volunteers, the Albrights. This made our trip to Ft. Worth a great day, in spite of the original purpose having been dental appointments. They are also volunteers with the Ft. Worth District of the USACE, presently at Benbrook Lake, just to the southwest of the city. Like us, they are staying in a park which is now closed for the winter.

This district of the Corps of Engineers tends to use more volunteers in the winter months to take advantage of low visitor numbers to do major maintenance in their parks and public facilities. It was a great day!