Don’t mess with Texas!

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

After a wild and crazy day yesterday in West Texas, we arrived in east Texas about 7:30 pm, where the weather was cold, but not freezing.  We traveled 600 miles and it took us more than 14 hours!  The average speed was 40 mph!  Unfortunately we hit Houston right in the heart of rush hour…which was a white knuckle ride.  We were so happy just to get to Beaumont, and it didn’t take long to get to sleep last night. 

It is almost 1,000 miles from one side of Texas to the other…Alaska is the only state bigger, and it’s fun to think that we’ve driven through both states in the past 6 months!

Our relatives are so thoughtful, they came to the RV park to pick us up so that we didn’t have to detach the tow vehicle.  They claimed we brought Indiana weather to Texas!  We were treated to a wonderful breakfast of Texas waffles, Texas coffee and Texas bacon, along with great company and a fun visit!  thanks Uncle James, Aunt Barbara and Aunt Marie!

We said goodbye to Texas and hit the road headed east, keeping an eye on the awful weather that is hitting Atlanta and Charlotte.  We are lucky we didn’t leave from Indiana to travel to Daytona, as we surely would have been stuck in the middle of the snowstorm. Our route took us south of there, and all we saw was just a little rain…we were glad we missed the weather event! 

We travelled 380 miles today to Mobile, Alabama, and are staying in a Walmart parking lot again.  This one is one of the busiest Walmarts we’ve seen.  We did our “courtesy shopping”…and are trying to unwind and get ready for another day of driving tomorrow. 

Daytona, here we come….