Thursday 8 March 2012

After an excellent day on the road, we have arrived at Galvaston Bay RV Park just south of Houston. We have a perfect site for Hurricane (our RV's name) on the banks of the Gulf of Mexico looking south over the vast expanse of ocean. Facilities here are very good, however we will be hitting the road tomorrow heading further west to the Mexican border via San Antonia towards El Paso. The really great thing about this trip is that we never really know where we are going to end up when night time comes. We did have a plan at breakfast time this morning to hit Houston by the end of the day that involved a 343 mile trip, a bit like Edinburgh to London, without the M6. Surprise, surprise we did just that. The road conditions can be a little scary at times. The quality of maintenance various from state to state and it does somewhat focus your attention when doing 65 mph on a big open road that very quickly becomes a single track road 9 feet wide particularly when the RV is 8 feet 6 ‘ wide. Our plan for tomorrow is to get in as many miles under our belt as possible. El Paso is 758 miles from where we are now and whilst it sounds unlikely that we will do that mileage in one day we may just do it. Watch for postings later. We are seriously impressed with the RV parks here and the fact that there is free wireless internet everywhere. There is also high quality digital tv on board which allows us to tune into the 24 hour rolling news and keep up with what’s going on. Well, I must go now, I here James opening a small bottle of Chardonnay in the kitchen and Ken is sorting out the music in the living room. For those who are following this blog but not registered please do and please make comments, requests etc.

1 comment:

  1. Now, there's some information! Glad it's all going well and you are getting miles under the wheels of Hurricane. Why is James drinking Chardonnay? How odd. Have fun and enjoying the blog. It's just like being there but not having to listen to James snoring :-)

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