Daily Archives: August 16, 2016
Home Again at Colorado River . . .
With a 300 mile trip ahead of us today, and wanting to avoid the rush hour traffic going through Houston in the afternoon, we were up at 6:30 and pulling out of our site by 8am.
Since we stayed hitched up last night, prepping for travel this morning consisting of stowing the satellite stuff, letting in the awnings, and unplugging shore power, at least on the outside. Inside Jan finished up with her stuff and we were ready to roll.
We took I-20 back toward Shreveport for a few miles and then got onto US79 south about 30 miles until we got on US59 at Carthage, the location of our last year’s gate guarding job.
Then it was another 170 miles down through Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Livingston, and Cleveland before we got on the Sam Houston Tollway and headed west.
Coming through Nacogdoches we passed right by the big Foretravel plant. And I guess due to this, there seems to be a lot of RV sales lots here for a town this size.
Then just outside Lufkin, the light drizzle we been driving through since we left Miss Ellie’s RV Park turned into a heavy downpour for a while before settling down to a steady rain.
Of course right before I started to navigate the obstacle course where US59 merges into the Tollway, the bottom dropped out, so much so, I couldn’t even see the lane lines. So I just followed the semi in front of me and hoped he could see the lane better than I could.
Finally out on 1-10 west the rain cleared up as we passed through Brookshire. We got into the Colorado River Thousand Trails a little before 2pm and got set up in A1, one of our favorite sites here.
We’re here for 12 days before we move back to the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails, or we will if we don’t get a gate before then. I’m go to start making some calls tomorrow.
One encouraging sign was when we passed the US Rig Count sign as we left the Katy area. A little over 2 weeks ago, the rig count was 462, and today it was 481, up 17 just this week. So every little bit helps.
Looking back over our trip, we averaged a little over 8.4 mpg going over to Gulf Shores and then up to north Alabama. Then coming home where we had a lot more hills, we dropped down a little to about 8.2 mpg. This is with me holding 55 to 60 the whole trip. Not bad.
Thought for the Day:
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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