BBRSP ? Weather and Winds!

[db1yg]

Chase,

Thanks for the posting--it explains a lot.

Janie and I, in our RV9a, along with friends in a Mooney, traveled as a flight of two to BBRSP on Tuesday from San Antonio for a three day/two night stay. We had to cancel out on the Presidents Day weekend this year but this trip made up for it as we enjoyed incredible weather, beautiful scenary, cloudless/star filled night skys around the fire pit, and great food--but I will report the details in another post. What I wanted to report deals with John and Diana.

When I made our arrangements the prior week I had talked with John and everything seemed normal. When we arrived I inquired about John and Diana and got the same response from everyone, "last week they moved to the La Posada travel trailor park". I assumed that they were simply working in some new capacity for the park. Chase's posting shows that it was not that simple.

I believe that John and Diana were a big part of the reason the first Presidents Day RV Fly In was such a memorable event. They made us all feel as though we were welcomed guests to a large ranch and they did everything possible to make it a pleasant stay. I am saddened to hear of this "event" and will also inquire to the State Parks Service as to what is behind this.

Cheers,

db

[db1yg]

Janie and I had to cancel out on this years Presidents Day RV Fly In to BBRSP due to weather and a couple of other obligations. However, we love the place so much we made up for that trip this week. On Tuesday Jeff Jones and his wife Karen, along with Janie and I flew out as a flight of two--they in their Mooney 201 and Janie and I in the 9a. We left Bulverde (1T8) on Tuesday morning and made the trip in right at 1:50. The weather was severe clear the entire trip and the vis was 100+, we even had a slight tailwind going west!!. After securing the planes at 3TE3 we were taken to the Ranch and checked into "The Big House" i.e the old Ranch house.

The weather the three days we were there was clear, dry, and cool (30 at night and 55-65 during the day). We even had very light winds which I understand is unusual for this time of the year. We hiked the "five tanks" and the nature trails around the ranch headquarters, enjoyed Victors incredible cooking, and had cloudless star filled nights around the outside fire pit. The stars were even better that I remembered and Jeff/Karen kept commenting on the fact that the sky is just as dark and the stars just as bright all the way down to the horizon as they are directly overhead--quite a difference from less remote locations with man made lighting on the horizon.

Victor came out to the fire pit to join us Tuesday evening after our dinner of green chile enchiladas, rice, beans, and homemade chocolate cake. Victor was not going to be cooking Wed evening (his day off). Knowing this and having heard my stories of Victors wonderful fruit cobblers, Karen told him that she was disappointed as she had been looking forward to his famous cobbler. Victor asked Jeff/Karen what kind of cobbler they liked after which he disappeared. Fifteen minutes later he came back with a 12" Dutch oven filled with cobbler fixin"s. He raked some red hot coals out of the fire pit and cooked the pie in the dutch oven on the spot. Let me tell you -- it was delicious and we made pigs of ourselves!!!!!

The three days went by too fast and on Thursday we took off from 3TE3 into yet another day of clear skys, cool temps, and light winds. We had tail winds again flying back to Bulverde-we were sitting on the ramp in front of our hangar in 1:42.

Another wonderful experience at BBRSP--hope all of you can some day enjoy it!!

Cheers,

db

[Louise Hose]

Originally Posted by db1yg

I am saddened to hear of this "event" and will also inquire to the State Parks Service as to what is behind this.

Dave (and others),
If you want to comment, I recommend directing them to Mr. Carter Smith (see my previous note for his information). I've sent a PM to Chase and Dave providing a little more information on why I am recommending this approach.