On the road again. . .

1-05-06

I will be posting this late since we cannot get any cell phone, modem, etc., signals.

We left Mom and Dad about 9 a.m. this morning. That was hard because we have had such a great time. We did a lot with them, but mostly we just hung out, played bingo and swam in the pool. Made a couple trips to Mexico and one to South Padre. It is hard to beat southern Texas weather. The past couple days it was close to 90 degrees, but cool enough at night you had to close the windows. Just about perfect.

Today was a driving test. First trip in the new rig. We had only driven it 150 miles prior to today and that was down and back to the dealer’s. We headed west on US 83 and are camped just off of it. We are headed to Quartzsite, Arizona, for our Class of 2005 Rally and our route today was taking us toward I-10. We drove 325 miles today. While on the road, we saw lots of deer, but we also saw two wild boars. Terry gave them a toot of the air horns and boy, did they ever scamper back into the brush. There were not in danger of getting on the road. They were in the scrub and there was a fence between their position and the road. They sure were cute.

Our camp’s address is Rio Frio, Texas. Hah. It is north of Concan, south of Leaky. US 83 joins up with I-10 at Junction. The park is called Parkview Riverside RV Park. It is quite nice. Very nice showers and laundry, a camp store and very gracious people. There aren’t many campers in here, but there are seasonal rates and it is in the mountains. One big mountain looms up over one end of the camp. The river runs alongside the camp and there are several access trails down to it. Surprisingly there is water in the river, something we haven’t seen a lot of this trip. The camp is easily accessible from 83. There is about a 1.6 mile jaunt down a county road which isn’t any too great, but it is smooth and trees are cut back, so we didn’t hit any branches. The park itself is well manicured and the roads are wide. We didn’t have any trouble getting in and getting parked. I went out and took some pictures.


Tonight we went out for a walk around the campground and it was already dark. There was some light from the entrance to the park and we could see a herd of deer. We stood quietly and watched as the buck played and frolicked with the does and the babies. It was awesome. We discovered later that there is a feeder in a grassy area near the camp store. It is a safe haven for them and a treat for the campers.

We plan to go somewhere close to Fort Stockton tomorrow night. Once we get on I-10, we should roll pretty good. We have some scenic miles to do tomorrow on 83, and while it is in the hill country, it doesn’t appear to be mountainous. . . just hilly.

Till next time. . .

Dale