We are super excited to be in Austin and we are staying at the Oak Forest RV Park. This is a great little park with lots of walking/bike-riding areas, some overnight sites, and many full timers & tiny homes. If you are a seasonal renter or a tiny home owner you belong to the community and have access to their gardens with many types of plants and vegetables. Of course, prior to understanding this we had already picked and sampled many. For today, we are going to assume this also applies to overnight RV renters as well!
Both of us love tiny homes and we were thrilled to find out there were model tiny homes open to view. We toured a bunch and determined the smaller models have very steep and narrow staircases often leading to an upstairs bedroom. Once up there, you often have to bend over, and sometimes crawl, to avoid hitting your head on the ceiling. While we love the tiny home concept, these styles just don’t seem practical as we age. Fortunately, we did see some larger units that have all the rooms on one floor. Totally worth the extra price to get one with a bigger footprint.
The RV park also has a very nice heated pool with a very warm hot tub that overflows into the pool. We swim everyday despite the cooler temperatures. We usually have the pool to ourselves, given the cooler air, which is brilliant. There are several families with young children who like to sit in the hot tub so we usually wait for them to go for dinner and then enjoy the hot tub, once again by ourselves.
The most exciting aspect of this location, however, is how close we are to downtown Austin. Only about 8 miles or 13 kilometres. That makes taking an Uber really easy. Before we had left home our good friend Amy told us about a food truck/restaurant in Austin that she had seen featured on TV. So, of course, we have that on our agenda for the days ahead.
