Day 2
Early rise, early go! Had alarm set for 0445 and still woke up at 0400, which is really 0500 my east coast time. Anyhow, un-hooked and gassed up and on the road by 0500!! Pretty smooth ride right through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and finally into Texas. Nice 10.5 day, although plenty of stops long the way, with the inevitable, “DADDY I NEED SOME HELP!” from the bathroom…. We really have ruined these kids from any extended road trips without an RV.. They will never know what to do without a bathroom readily available along the way, or the joy of getting up out of their seat to move around!!!
Angelica’s only worry the whole way is how close we are to NM!!! sure i heard that question at least 2-dozen times yesterday!!!
Made it to Glade Water Texas and parked it at a quint and very nice little RV park called shallow Creek. Run by a couple retired Navy folk who reminisced about days in Norfolk. Kids got some splash park and pool time to burn off some road energy and Sandy got some leg stretching in as well.
Day 3
Another early rise, but I slept right till the alarm today, still got unhooked and on the road by 0510 though. Few more stops today, as the coffee was flowing right through me, so it was a Rest Stop to Rest stop kinda morning. Eventually got through the hell that is Dallas traffic and road construction, with only a hand full of cuss words from yours truly!!
Got to Amarillo relatively early, 3pm, making it another 10 hour day, although less milage covered, and NEVER left the state of TEXAS!!!
Made it to the Big Texan, as we always do when passing through Amarillo, and had to have me the Nice 27oz pale ale brew they had, to go with my 12oz steak!!! Kids got their hats and of course dessert and all were happy, as we got back to the Amarillo Ranch RV Park and they pestered me incessantly until i broke down and took them to the pool!!!!
Got here to Amarillo a day earlier then anticipated so not sure what tomorrow will bring, see if we can get in a day early at our Santa Fe abode, if not we will shoot from the hip and plan something else out….