April 4th

April 4 – We stopped off the night of the 3^rd over at Ft Stockton, TX at Hilltop RV Park. The price when we stopped was $25 for the night. The sites were big and long enough to handle our rather long rig. The sites were very clean and well maintained. The wi-fi was free when we stopped and worked fairly decently. Some parks charge for using the wi-fi so if they do or don't while we are on the road I will post it so that if any stop by you know what you might expect.

Oh FYI to anyone traveling thru Texas - Most if not all their rest stops have FREE wi-fi. Yes I said FREE. Depending on how many are trying to connect it's not bad for speed.

The morning started nice enough. We got on the road at about 10:30 am on our way to Austin to see some friends. About 25 miles from Ft Stockton on I-10E Thom was on the phone with his sister when the call got lost and he looked in the mirror and noticed one of the trailer tires start to come apart. Immediately we pulled over and changed out to the spare, which was the wrong size by the way. So on the phone we got to see where we might get a replacement. Someone happened along to let us know that the closest was back the way we came and not forward. Appearently if we had been on I-20 we would have had lots of truck stops to choose from but not the section of I-10 that we were on. Thats the way it goes sometimes, lol. So we called several places and found that most places did not carry tires like the Walmart there. Which I spent 10 mins on ignore before they told me that they don't carry tires. We finally did find a place that had them thou. So we got not only that one tire but the other 3 replaced on it just in case. Because if one goes then who knows when the others may go. At the same time we also replaced the 2 outside on the rear of the RV. Trust me they were needing to be replaced we just had to wait for a few days. Now we are back on the road and it is after 4 pm.

Ok we filled up yesterday and the miles on the RV were 97,321. We just filled up in Ozona, TX at $3.99 a gallon for diesel. The tank is supposed to be a 200 gallon tank and it only needed 64.01 gal to fill it up. The miles then were 97,969. That means that with a fully loaded RV and pulling a trailer with a 4Runner and fully dressed bike we are getting 10.123418 mpg. Wow is all we both can say. We did not think it was going to be that, we thought maybe 6 or 8 mpg but we will take 10. For those that want to know how fast we are going with this rig set up well we are going an avg speed of 62 or so.

We have stopped for the night at about 8 pm. We hooked up at Junction North Llano River RV Park. They used to be a KOA and are now a Good Sam park. They do have a rather large, clean area for a playground for kids with some stuff. There is a pool and a net for things like volleyball too. There is a liquor store right next door that is open Monday - Saturday until 9 pm. Sites are wide and long for even a rig like ours that is about 65 ft total.
So far we have been in and/or thru:
California
Arizona
New Mexico (which we went thru a border stop section that had everyone stopping)
Texas
Still to hit (might change depending on things):
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virgina, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan
After Michigan we will be headed back to California. Thom has taken a new job out there. Not sure when we might be out to the east coast again so we will see as many family and friends as we can in the time we have before we have to be back in Cali.