Monthly Archives: July 2010
Waskom…
Today was a pretty uneventful day, which was nice for a change.
We left the North Waco KOA (actually in West,, TX. No, not west Texas, but West. TX) about 10:15 am heading north and then east toward Waskom, TX, about 5 miles from the Louisiana border and about 20 miles west of Shreveport.
Leaving the park, I stopped by the office to drop off a bundle of Gypsy Journals and we hit the road.
We pulled into Miss Ellie’s RV Park in Waskom, TX about 2:45 pm and got set up. I’m glad I made a reservation because the lady in the office said we got the last site, and she’d already turned away 4 or 5 people this afternoon, waiting for us. It seems like the further east we go, the fuller the parks are. Although I usually don’t worry about reservations, I guess I have to be more careful.
After we got settled in, we headed into Shreveport/Bossier City for dinner, but first we stopped back by the office and dropped off another bundle of Gypsy Journals. The lady said she heard of it and was glad to see a copy.
We’d decided we wanted to get our “wing fix’ so we ended up at Buffalo Wild Wings, one of our two favorite wing places. (The other one being Hooters).
Jan got her wings ‘HOT’ and I got mine with “MANGO HABANERO” with a side of “BLAZIIN’” for dipping. “BLAZIN’ is their hottest sauce, then comes “WILD”, MANGO HABANERO”, and then “HOT”. Then there are 10 less hot sauces, for a total of 14.
By the time we got finished, our mouths were really burning, so that called for a stop on the way home at Dairy Queen for some soft-serve ice cream to cool off.
We got home about 6:30 and settle in for the season premiere of “Eureka” on SyFy Channel
Tomorrow we’ll travel about 230 miles east to somewhere around Jackson, MS. Still not sure where we’ll stay yet. There’s a MOOSE lodge there that I’ll call in the morning to see what they have available.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. – L. M. Boyd
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Waco…finally
First, a little Waco musical interlude…
Cross the Brazos at Waco
Well, Gina couldn’t think of anything else for me to fix, so we finally got out of Canyon Lake about 10:15 am, but it took some doing
First we had to stop at the park office to pay our electric bill. This Passport America is $12 a day plus electric, so at $52.40 for 13 days, that’s about $4 a day. Not bad with the 95 degree days we’ve been having.
Next, right after leaving the park, we stopped at the Exxon station and got diesel. I glad we stayed a couple of extra days because in that time diesel dropped from $2.85 to $2.75. Hey, ten cents a gallon for 122 gallons adds up.
By the time we got finished it was a little after 11 am so since we had to drive right by it, we decided to have lunch at Milagro’s, a really good Mexican restaurant in the area.
After we finished lunch, I used their large parking lot to hook up the toad, and finally about noon we were on our way.
It was about 12 miles into San Marcos where we got on I-35N heading to the KOA in West, TX, about 20 miles north of Waco.
We pulled into the North Waco KOA about 3:30 pm and were led to our site.
Whoops! Someone was already in our site. And the one they wanted to put us in was not a pull-thru like we had paid for.
Finally they got things straighten out and led us to this nice site on top of a hill.
Tomorrow we’ll head north and east to somewhere around Shreveport, LA.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson
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