That Wink

Gee Dad, you and Mom look so much better today (wink wink).  Well little girl, I don’t think either of us feel much better.  It’s like this….you get sick, you start feeling better, then the better part slows to a crawl, and each night is a struggle to get some good sleep because one or the other of us will cough and cough and keep both of us awake.  Last night was like the one before, and the one before that.  Each morning is a struggle, then you start feeling better.

We hit the road by 9:30, drove 8 miles up I-35 to a Pilot and paid $2.95 per gallon for gas, the lowest price yet.  Then we drove the 20 miles over to I-10.  Not much excitement along this part of the route, that’s for sure.

Eventually Marcia got into looking at all the tree skeletons.  And at least the sky was nice and blue, and sun was shinning….but that does not mean it was warm…just not as cold.

The plan was to go through Houston around 1 pm…..and that’s what we did.  It is never fun going through Houston, but we had little problem.  On the other side of Houston there is a Flying J, and it was a good place to walk the dogs, sit a spell and let ones nerves calm down.  From there, we are less than an hour to the RV Park.  We are both so tired of being in Texas…and we will be done with it very quickly in the morning.

We are staying at Hidden Lake RV Resort near Beaumont, Texas.  Another Passport America park, the price is only $17.50 for the night, full hookups.  I still don’t know why these places like to call their “parks” a “Resort”, but they do.  As a park, it is a nice little park.  The staff was very friendly, it has everything you need…although the Internet is from TengoInternet.  It is free, and the first 500 mbs for the day is an ok speed…over that and the speed is cut in half.  At 700 mbs it is cut in half again.  At 900 mbs and it is cut down to a snail’s crawl.  I don’t think we will get to that point.