Daily Archives: September 8, 2010
On to Texas . . .
Kind of a short post today since we’re on the road and Walmarting tonight.
We left Elkhart at 10 am, heading west on I-80. It was hard to say goodbye, especially to Nick and Terry, but it is good to get back on the road again. And it’s always a problem after we’ve been parked for a while, (in this case, almost 6 weeks) to be sure you’ve got everything done before we pull out.
A little after 12 we stopped at Fair Oaks Farms for lunch.
Fair Oaks is an operating dairy farm, but with a big tourist operation too. We didn’t do any tours of the farm or the dairy, but just had lunch and coffee. Jan also did her part to support their gift shop too.
They do have a very colorful bus called the “MooMobile” for carrying large groups around the farm.
After a pretty smooth trip, we got into the Vandalia Walmart about 5 pm, and unhitched the toad. Then I drove over to the diesel pumps and got filled up. We were down to about a quarter of a tank, and I wanted to take care of it tonight rather than fool with it tomorrow morning before we leave. Before we left Elkhart I had planned on filling up on the way out of the area, but after we got on the way, I saw we had more fuel than I remembered. And this way I shouldn’t have to fill up again until we get to our park in Houston.
A little after 5:30 we drove about 15 miles over to Jan’s sister Debbie’s house. She had prepared great meal of Crockpot Pizza with chocolate cake for dessert. She’s a great cook, and I don’t know how she stays so slim.
We got to see two of her three kids, Jason and Tana, Jason’s wife, Laura, Jason and Laura’s two girls, Avery Jane and Ella, and Tana’s daughter, Gwen.
And, of course, Debbie and her husband, Jim. (I think I got all that right)
After a great time we got back to the rig about 9 and I went ahead and hooked up the toad so we’ll be ready to go tomorrow.
We’ll probably stop for breakfast at the McDonald’s right down the road before we leave town. They’ve got semi parking so we shouldn’t have any problem.
Tomorrow we’ll drive about 310 miles to West Memphis, AR, right across the Mississippi River from Memphis, TN.
More from Memphis…
Quote of the Day:
“I used to eat a lot of natural foods, until I learned that most people die of natural causes.”
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