We are at Tyler State Park, near Tyler, Texas. This is our view:
We have been lucky to find nice places to park. We are only here for one night, but this is such a nice park, we hope to be back. It's just a couple of hours from Natasha, so it should be easy to get the trailer parked in storage and get everything back to Natasha's tomorrow.
I last posted from Meaher State Park in Alabama. We ended up staying there two extra nights, as Steve came down with a really bad cold. My back had been bothering me, so we just hunkered down. I slept in the living room on the sofa bed and we could still get to our desks for eating and our computers. That meant we could watch the bay whenever we weren't asleep.
But the extra two nights put a crimp in our plans to get to Natasha's by the 20th. We had left Disney on the ninth and camped at Recreation Plantation near the Villages for 3 nights. Since we made arrangements to see Sam and Joy on Tuesday and Steve's Uncle Eep on Wednesday, we thought we might leave early, but then my computer died. Deader than a doornail. Steve was able to make an appointment with Apple in Orlando on Thursday, so we stayed.
Early in my RV research, I ran into the rule of 2s. To keep sane, it's recommended that you travel about 200 miles a day, stay at least 2 nights in any spot, and be parked by 2 pm. When you can follow that, it's a comfortable way to travel. In plotting our trip from the Villages to Dallas, I could do that if I had one one night stopover. I planned that for Tallahassee, FL. And things were going according to plan, until Steve got his cold. After that we had to plan more of a rush trip to Dallas. We managed to travel to Vicksburg, MS last night and stayed at a casino RV campground. Not much to write home about, but easy off and on I20:
Many casinos apparently allow RV'ers to park overnight in their parking lots. Some have hookups; most don't. This casino has created an RV park across the road from the casino. They'll shuttle you over to the casino if you want.
We've driven to within 2 hours of Natasha's and settled in around 4 here. We could have made it to Dallas, but then we would be packing and unpacking and parking in the dark. This way, we get to experience a nice state park and we should mostly be settled at Natasha's by dinner time tomorrow.
Just a note on the roads - Mississippi and Louisiana still have bad roads and Texas roads are much smoother. But it all three states, the roads are lined with trees, which makes for a calmer drive. They kind of remind me of driving in North Carolina, except that there is a mix of evergreens and deciduous trees.
Next post from Plano, Texas!
Deb
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