Hey everybody!
Tom Langland here from RVTexasYall.com and behind the camera is Stacie Langland [Stacie:
Hey y'all!]
This is a new adventure for us.
We are at Sam Houston State University which happens to be my alma mater.
Graduated back in 1985.
And the reason why we're here is my son is playing in a baseball tournament tomorrow
morning at Sam Houston State couldn't be prouder.
And we're boondocking here in the parking lot at the football field.
And we got it approved from the university.
We called ahead of time.
And all this came up at the last minute so it was great to be able to have the Class
A RV that's able to boondock since we have a generator running.
And this is going to be a whole boondocking weekend because from here tomorrow we go over
to another small town called Franklin, Texas.
And at the sports complex there that we're going to be playing at, they're going to let
us park in a parking lot as well and boondock there.
So what's interesting is we've boondocked before because we boondocked the Houston Cougar's
bowl game in Atlanta, Georgia.
[Stacie: Peach Bowl!]
The Peach Bowl!
Way to go Coogs!
But this is our first time doing it with the baseball.
We go to a lot of tournaments in the RV and stay in the RV in RV parks, but this is our
first time actually boondocking for baseball.
And we're so excited.
It's beautiful out here and it looks like it's going to be a great evening.
And we'll see how it goes.
But this is one reason why we got this so we could enjoy times like this and wouldn't
have to worry about having hookups if we couldn't get them.
It's working that way this weekend so we'll see how it goes.
We're calling this weekend #BoondockingForBaseball.
And as you'll see we come out of the RV, we walk right up those steps you see right over
there, and there's a path that takes us right to the baseball park.
You can see the baseball lights up there.
So I mean we literally are a couple of minutes away from the game starting at 9:00 in the
morning.
So like everybody else we don't have to get up way early in the morning like most of the
others.
So we're really excited and it's just another great any day in the RV is a fantastic time,
but this is a whole new experience for us and we're really looking forward to it.
Stay tuned we'll have more footage and more stuff either later here or at Franklin or
both.
And always remember, Go Kats!
Here we are.
We are running the generator because it's still warm.
It is July in Texas so it's good to have that.
And since there's nobody here there's no school
in, it's not crowded at all they were okay with us having our slides and things out to
give us a little bit more space which is nice.
But we're right here.
Got a little grassy spot.
Some trees.
So even though we're in a parking lot, we have a little touch of nature right here.
Now the reason that we're parked like we are.
The trailer that you see behind us there was already here.
That belongs I guess to the university or one of the university organizations.
We put ourselves over here so we'd be out of everybody's way and it's really the most
level section of this parking lot.
There are some rolling hills here.
And with the trailer that was here behind us and our Jeep parked in front of us, in
the morning or after our first game tomorrow when we need to go to Franklin, we shouldn't
have any trouble pulling out.
So that's one thing you have to think about.
When you're setting up in a parking lot, you've got to always think about okay, if people
come and park all around me how can I get out.
So you know we made sure that the chances of with this big old parking lot that these
2 spaces here fill up.
And even if they did, I can move the Jeep and we can pull right out.
It's just if somebody parks right in front of you and pins you in that's a problem.
So that's why we chose this site.
Hey y'all!
This is day 3 of our boondocking for baseball adventure.
Yesterday we played our first game at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville and
we stayed overnight there at the college.
Then we loaded up, we drove up here to Franklin, Texas which is about 2 hours north of Houston,
about 2 hours south of Dallas, about 45 minutes away from College Station and Bryan, and about
an hour away from Waco basically in Central Texas.
And this is amazing what we found out here.
We had our first game yesterday afternoon out here, 2 games this morning.
This is a phenomenal phenomenal place.
We are at Franklin Ranch Community Park in Franklin, Texas.
Beautiful beautiful facility for baseball, softball, soccer, football.
They were nice enough to allow us to boondock here overnight.
We called them a couple of days in advance and asked them.
And they told us where to park so we'd be out of the way of everybody and we'd be able
to run our generator and everything.
And so if you will turn around we are parked right behind.
So if you get a chance, if you're out near Franklin, come by and check this place out.
It's a community park.
It's open to the public during the day.
And if you ever get a chance to play a tournament out here, definitely do it.
Because this is just a phenomenal phenomenal place.
And we really appreciate the fact that they let us boondock out here as well.
That was super convenient.
So Franklin Community Park if you are seeing this video, thank you thank you thank you.
We love you guys and we'll tell everybody about your place.
This is just phenomenal.
[baseball game sounds and crowd cheering]
So that wraps up our boondocking for baseball
adventure.
Definitely something we will do again in the future should the opportunity arise.
The way to do it is if your interested in doing this kind of thing with your RV make
sure you call ahead to the places where you're going to be.
Tell them that you'd like to bring your RV and camp in their parking lot.
They will tell you if that's okay and they will tell you where to go to park.
Things to consider: obviously is pitch.
You know we had to do a little bit of leveling in some of these parking lots so make sure
you're prepared for that.
Make sure you've got plenty of water, plenty of fuel and you're good to go for any of your
dry camping experience.
By the way, shout out to our Bluechips Family!
We had a great time as usual with the team.
And thanks for watching y'all.
We'll see you next time.
Good luck on your boondocking adventure!