2026-11-6 TRR Rally Breakfast & Guest Speaker

 

The breakfast crew fixed us all a fantastic spread this morning.

Head chef Elaine is checking status on food items.

We even had a guest, Monica, jump in to grill the bacon.

Biscuits are in the oven.

The breakfast casserole is done and ready to ready to slice. It was fantastic!

Head chef Elaine had some great help with Olivia and Kathy on duty.

Olivia says the sausage gravy is ready to pour on those biscuits.

With inhouse help like we have in the Roses, outside catering is not needed. Better food at better prices.

Next up was our guest speaker, Betty Grant. Betty Grant is an RV tech as well as a Ramblin' Rose.

She gave an interactive presentation involving the audience and covered a wide range of RV "how-tos" and "don't dos".

Betty and her husband own RVPocket Tech. They also gave a seminar at the recent RVW Convention in Farmington NM. 

We have some talented and knowledgeable members in our chapter. Check them out.

2026-11-5 TRR Rally Meet & Greet

 

I guess I have been including the TRR Rally on each of the posts but the rally actually begins this afternoon about 4 PM when everyone gets together for the first time. Since this is our Annual Meeting Rally, the chapter provides the Meet and Greet snacks as well as any onsite meals.

Not everyone is here yet but we are starting to gather. You can see the garage sale set up in the very back. We have it each annual meeting to raise money for the chapter. We had some big items this year like a kayak, patio umbrella, beach tent, hammock, and blueboy which were sold by silent action.

We don't miss too many chances to play games when we get together.

We tried something new this year. It was called "How to Host a Rally" so everyone was asked where they might like to go and when. Then everyone was asked who would be willing to host.

We came up with a number of rallies and women who agreed to host them.

The chapter recognized 4 members (Teri, Anne, Kathy, and me) who hosted/cohosted 6 rallies this year.

We each got a very nice tote bag.

The sunset was a spectacular way to end the first official day of the rally at Oakdale in Glen Rose TX.

2026-11-5 TRR Rally Lunch at the Storybook Cafe

It was lunch time by the time we finished checking out the camping areas in the park so we decided to head to the Storybook Cafe.

Once you are inside the cafe, it feels like your are in a bookstore.

There is a huge tree made of books.

There is a second room with all kinds of teapots. We were lucky that it wasn't crowded so you could really see the decorations.

We have had lunch in this room with a group of friends several times.

Lunch was delicious. You can also buy the books on the shelves and we had a shopper move around our table looking for a book.

Definitely recommend lunch here if you come to Glen Rose.  Good food and great decor.

 And we are off again.

2026-11-5 TRR Rally The Outlaw Gas Station

 From a previous writeup on my blog.

The interesting thing about this visit was a that Carolyn told us that the nephew of her friend is the one who bought this place about the time of our visit a year and a half ago. He is an architect and has big plans to add a roof back and revitalize it.

You can see the unique use of petrified wood used in the building. That appears to be unique to Glen Rose not just this building because we saw several other buildings in town that also included petrified wood.

It will be interesting to see what happens between now and our next visit.

Check it out if you get to Glen Rose. It's easy to find and there is info on the Internet.

2026-11-4 Visit to Dinosaur State Park

The rally doesn't actually start until Thursday evening so Kathy, Carolyn, and I took advantage of our free time and headed out to Dinosaur Valley State Park which is just outside of Glen Rose.

I have been there before but it was a first time experience for Kathy and Carolyn. Carolyn took most of the pictures.

These tracks are preserved near the front of the park.

This is also near the front of the park near the park store.

In order to see most of the dinosaur tracks, you have to head down to the creek area. Last time I was here, there was a huge crowd of scouts not to mention a bunch of smaller kids.

Picture trying to cross with a bunch of kids hopping around.

Carolyn, of course, was first off the mark headed down to the creek.

The Blue Hole is quite a wase down from the road area. The trails had some hand rails but you are pretty much on your own.

This was part of the walkway down the trail to the Blue Hole.

Kathy decided to just go for it since she has never been here before. I noticed that they added a stepping stone to the path across the creek. Made it easier to cross.

The dinosaur tracks are in the creek near Carolyn.