After leaving the campsite at Ft. Pickens NP, we spent a few hours at the Navel Air Museum in Pensacola. We had a guided tour, It is a very well done museum. They had Naval airplanes from it’s beginning to the present time. I would have liked to spend more time there, but we had do push on.
That night we stayed in a campsite in Biloxi, Mississippi right off the interstate. We stopped around 2PM after some 250 miles. We got up the next day and left around 9AM. We continued West on I-10.
The second night we stayed in a campsite, also off the interstate, in Frog City, Louisiana following the same schedule.
When we travel like this, not in a great hurry, we stay in full hookup parks from Passport America. Passport America has affiliated parks all over the US and they are 50% off, which makes it reasonable. If we are really pushing it we will stay dry camp in a truck stop or Wal-Mart. Get off the road around 6PM, eat, go the sleep and get up around 5AM and take off down the road.
Welcome Center Entering Texas Nice Welcome
On Thursday, we arrived in Texas! We exited I-10 at Beaumont, TX and headed north, taking mostly two lane roads. Boy oh boy, is Texas a big state. Alaska is big, but there are a lot of beautiful mountains. Texas is big and very flat, at least this part is. The houses were far apart. I guess you could call them ranches. Everyone has an RV in their yard. What do you want from 2 NY kids from the Bronx/Queens? (Note from Ann to “Those That Know”: this road reminded me of Babylon, NY once upon a time when those were the days!)
We arrived at Rainbows End RV Park, which is part of Escapees, around 12:30PM and picked a spot, then went to register. We planned to stay here until Monday and then take off for Las Vegas, visit with Vic and Judi, and come back to Texas for the New Horizons rally, but things change. After planning out the trip using Streets & Trips, which has a built in trip cost calculator, I realized the trip up and back would cost us over $1000.00 in fuel. So we are staying in Texas until after the rally and then go to Las Vegas.
There is a lot to see in Texas besides George W. Some plans are to see the LBJ and George H Presidential Libraries, San Antonio and the Alamo, and Big Bend NP to name a few.
We were just laying in bed this morning around 7:30 when both our cell phones went off. A message came on “High wind and Tornado Alert. Get out Now” . It was the “Get out Now” part that got us moving, fast. We got dressed, put on our rain coats and took off for the Laundry Room. It is a brick building with restrooms around the back. There were about 6 of us there. Don’t know about everyone else, I guess if you don’t know what is happening then you are OK. Then the power went out. We could see on our smartphone the track of the storm. So when it passed we went home. The power was out, I switched the hot water heater to propane. The refrigerator automatically switches over. All the lights are on 12V DC so they run off the battery. We made breakfast and sat down to relax. We have our computers and the internet. If I wanted to I could turn on the inverter and have Satellite TV. Life his hard living off the grid.
Well the power just came back and the rain is stopping too. All is back to normal.
Notice on the “States Visited” map, there are few more states filled in.
Love to Karen, John, Tommy and Mikey – delighted to hear that everyone in improving nicely.
Life is good on the Roan Road…
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