If you don't have a good time, it's your own dang fault

The Texas Quest Adventure Race is set to begin tomorrow morning at 10:00AM.  At 8:30AM, a bus will transport all teams from Pace Bend Park to Reimers Ranch.  Bikes for all teams were loaded into a trailer this evening and will be dropped at Reimers Ranch in the morning.  Team SteelSports is made up of Rodney, Lesley, Emily Haberman Roe and Steve Durnam.  Steve is new to the team and just met everyone this afternoon.  This will be Emily's second race to do with the team.

The trip to Austin was relatively uneventful.  Rodney and I met Emily at the Cracker Barrel in Tyler.  From there, we met Lesley at the Cracker Barrel in Desoto.  We got caught in some pretty heavy Friday afternoon traffic, but made it to Pace Bend Park, met Steve, set up the TA, checked in and got everyone settled into their cabin.  Lesley, Emily and Steve are bunking at Camp Tex, which is a girl scout camp located within Pace Bend Park.  The cabins are cedar with several bunk beds lining the cabin walls and two round tables at the entrance.   Located at the back of the cabin are two rooms on opposite walls.  One contains two shower stalls, the other two sinks and toilets separated by doors.  They are cozy and quaint.  

Rodney and I brought the travel trailer and are camping at Pace Bend RV Park.  After we left the park, we headed to the RV park to unload the trailer.  The manager helped us find our spot, after she had to walk up the hill to find "Vernon".  The original spot was 13, which I feel is slightly unlucky.  Plus, I'm a big chicken and may have to be alone at the park while they race.  So, we opted for 14, but were unsuccessful with backing the RV into the spot, even with the help of the manager lady.  She ran to get Vernon, who instructed Rodney to "put your front truck bumper right up to that RV in front of you...but don't hit it".  Eventually, with Vernon's help, we backed into spot 15.  We knew Rodney had the trailer straight, and well positioned in the spot, because Vernon yelled "YOU DID IT BROTHA!"  ... "Brotha from anotha Motha!"  Entertaining, to say the least.  When we got out of the truck to finish Vernon told us we were welcome to join him for some dinner, horseshoes and a beautiful lake view and proceeded to say, "Did y'all come here to have a good time?"  "If you don't have a good time, it's your own dang fault!"  (Vernon didn't say "dang", I've added that to be more polite.) He did recommend a local restaurant, Lake Front Cafe, which we tried.  The dinner was delicious and we enjoyed a nice evening on the patio. We finished off our meals with shared carrot cake.  The team is feeling good about this race and are looking forward to the challenge.