On Sunday, January 2, 2011, we left our Dallas home, (Wylie, Texas/ East Fork at Lake Lavon) to travel to Mission, Texas for a warmer climate for the next two months. We drove about 200 miles and spent the night at Waco, Texas, at a beautiful COE park called Midway Park. It was cold there as it had been at Wylie. Temperatures in the 40's to 50's during the day and 20's to 30's at night. I dress wearing my Cuddle Duds, which for those who do not know are my long underwear, a long sleeve shirt and jeans, plus a sweat shirt. Our next stop was another 200 miles to New Braunfels, Texas where we stayed at a private campground. It was large with many park models. When traveling our routine is to move out about 10:00 a.m, have lunch at the truck stop where we get fuel, which usually means a Subway or McDonalds, locate our new campground. Then, I set up, take a nap and Bob walks the dog. After my well deserved nap, I make dinner, we watch a little TV, play a few games on our Iphone, I catch up on my blog and then we head for bed. Real exciting, but we love it! Today we traveled 150 miles to Alice, Texas. We were going to stay at a private RV park in Falfurrias, Texas but I found Bob up about 6:00 a.m.worrying about the route into this park. He had even talked to the owner of the park the day before and she said that the exit had construction, the road was rough and it could be tough for a 40' motorhome. In this area, there are not a lot of RV parks. Honestly, there is very little anything in this area. (We were going to be between San Antonio on the north and Corpus Christi on the east.) I ask if there was a Walmart that we could stay at, which started a whole new search. There was one in Alice, Texas, so we changed our destination and headed to Alice.
For those of you who don't know about Walmart's RV policy, they allow RV'ers to spend a night in their parking lot. That is most Walmart's do, not the one in Oxnard, CA. I think this is the third time we have stayed at a Walmart. We don't set up, don't level or open our slides. We don't unhook our car. We pull in on the side, turn our generator on and stay inside to eat and sleep. I wouldn't want to do it often, but tomorrow we are at our winter home in only about 2 hours, so it isn't much of a problem.
The Walmart in Alice, Texas. Notice the security truck on the right. Walmart is open 24 hours, so some of the Walmart's have security trucks that roam all night. Also there are security camera all over the parking lot. We checked in with the security guy and he had us park over by the fence.
Here we are parked with our car still attached.
This rig pulled in shortly after us. When Bob was walking Pralines, he talked to this couple. There are from Holland and their rig came over on a boat. They arrived in November and will be staying in the states till May. They picked their rig up in Florida. They are heading to Corpus Christi.
This 5th wheel pulled in later and another motorhome pulled in beside us, since I starting writing this blog. The weather here is warmer in the 70's and as we move on to Mission it is suppose to be in the 80's. It rained a little while we drove today.
Wherever we stay, there has always been beautiful sunset.
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