Leaving “Port A”, (Port Aransas as the Winter Texans call it), we head north for a few days. As with many highways, we find a lot of construction on I35 and find narrower lanes and many lane reroutes. Not quite white knuckle time, but full driving attention is needed to thread the motorhome thread through the Interstate needle.
The narrow lanes were a challenge for us, being relatively new drivers for this wide of a beast, but evidently for professional(?) truck drivers, too. During a particularly curvy section of construction, an 18 wheeler truck wiggled and swerved across to our lane and scraped his trailer against our driver side mirror. Fortunately it only “left a mark” and didn’t physically damage the housing. I can’t imagine the replacement cost!
As we arrived at our RV park, a low level flyby of military jets occurred – I could not see them from inside the coach, but could clearly discern the difference from commercial jets and the military type. Turns out that the Blue Angles were in town and were practicing for their upcoming weekend show. Lucky for us that we got daily, personal shows of the Blue Angels. Unfortunately, the weather was pretty lousy, (very low cloud cover), on the air show dates, so they only did low level fly-bys – nothing at altitude would be seen.
Unbelievable weather here, we arrived at 90 deg F and within 24 hours the high was hovering around freezing! Never have we seen a 60 degree drop overnight! Crazy stuff. The motorhome kept us all nice and toasty – even turned on the (electric) “fireplace”.
The RV park was pretty nice, had a very large grassy area that Grayce could run on, chase her frisbee and tennis balls. Happy dog! A nice benefit was a free prepared breakfast every day – not a continental breakfast, but eggs, bacon, grits, etc. It also was a nice place to meet and visit with other travelers. Everyone we have met so far are so nice, with differing backgrounds, but with this shared trait of traveling by motorhome, trailer or 5th wheel.
We visited the Magnolia Farms location, (from HGTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines fame), and got a couple of souvenirs. Nice place with a great “backyard” area that was clearly set up for kids. Lots of toys, some food trucks, a stage with a band that made a great family destination.
We also visited the Dr. Pepper museum, where the soda was bottled back in the day. Interesting history there, but was a little disappointed that the $10 admission didn’t include at least a little sample taste. Oh well, it’ll probably be at least another 20 years before I have a desire to try it 😉
Next, a day trip to Dallas and then heading down to Austin, to visit family a see the MotoGP race!