Not the destination, and today definitely proved that to me. My heart is so full of joy today as we are realizing our dreams of traveling through this part of the country. The landscape changes we saw were breath-taking and my eyes are tired from looking! Pictures cannot do it justice, nor can my poor words, but I will give it a try anyway.
We traveled through the Great Plains section of Texas, which is sparsely populated at best. We passed very few exits on the interstate, saw little traffic (seemed like mostly RVs and trucks) and almost no billboards once we got out of the San Antonio area.
One bit of excitement came when hubby realized that our bedroom window on the passenger side of the trailer was flapping up and down. We stopped twice to add tape to it (RED duct tape!) and crossed our fingers that the window did not rip off. We could not access it from inside the trailer, since the bed flips up and straps on that side of the bedroom. Anyway, once we got set up in our site, he realized that I had simply not closed it down tight the last time we had it open. So no harm done, thank goodness!
We kept seeing signs about high cross winds along the interstate, along with the 80 mph speed limit signs, but the wind was not bad. The campground has a wind gage widget on its website, but things were quiet when we checked in. Not so much during the night. The wind picked up around 10 PM and blew hard all night and into the morning. Apparently, the wind is a BIG deal around here, since the campground has a sign in the office that says "Is is always this windy here? No, sometimes it is worse!" Plus they have a real-time gust by gust graph on their website.
We traveled through the Great Plains section of Texas, which is sparsely populated at best. We passed very few exits on the interstate, saw little traffic (seemed like mostly RVs and trucks) and almost no billboards once we got out of the San Antonio area.
One bit of excitement came when hubby realized that our bedroom window on the passenger side of the trailer was flapping up and down. We stopped twice to add tape to it (RED duct tape!) and crossed our fingers that the window did not rip off. We could not access it from inside the trailer, since the bed flips up and straps on that side of the bedroom. Anyway, once we got set up in our site, he realized that I had simply not closed it down tight the last time we had it open. So no harm done, thank goodness!
We kept seeing signs about high cross winds along the interstate, along with the 80 mph speed limit signs, but the wind was not bad. The campground has a wind gage widget on its website, but things were quiet when we checked in. Not so much during the night. The wind picked up around 10 PM and blew hard all night and into the morning. Apparently, the wind is a BIG deal around here, since the campground has a sign in the office that says "Is is always this windy here? No, sometimes it is worse!" Plus they have a real-time gust by gust graph on their website.
Tomorrow will be a quiet day, just hanging out. Ready for a day off to rest a bit. Take care, and visit us often as we move along.