Ft Worth, Tx - San Antonio, Tx

"CAMPING WORLD IS #1"

Well, we are into day 4 of our trip to California. We had to be up early this morning to take the Motor Home back to the Camping World Service Center. When we checked to see if the drop light had thawed the ice in the water pump, we found it to be unsuccessful.

We delivered the Motor Home then went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. When we got back to Camping World it was ready to roll. All they had to do was thaw the pump. All we had to pay was labor which was pretty expensive ($109.00 / hr). It took them 45 minutes to by pass the Accumulator and one hour to thaw the pump. You do the math.
Getting the car back on the dollie went off without a hitch (no pun intended). We were on the road out of Fort Worth at 10:30 a.m.

For lunch we stopped for a famous “Robertson’s” ham sandwich, yum – yum. JW said we hadn't had one of these for over 20 years. As I recall, they were a lot cheaper back then, but just as good..

J.W. commented that he hadn’t seen any armadillos since we entered the state of Texas. He decided the reason was that they had all gone to Missouri.

We went through several well known cities, Waco (anyone remember what happened there???), Temple, Georgetown, Round Rock, Austin, San Marcos, New Braunfels and San Antonio (we all remember the Alamo).

Around 1:00 p.m. JW decided that we needed fuel for the motorhome and started looking for a Flying J. As we saw one 8 miles south of Robertsons sandwich shop we discovered that the exits are about a mile before you actually get to your turnoff, so about 2 more mile down the road we got turned around and headed back to the Flying J. As we pull into the station JW discovers that RVs need to go to the back of the station, so here we go, only to find that it's all diesel pumps. Back to the front of the station we go. To make a long story a little bit shorter, we made the loop around the station 3 times before JW decided to park the motorhome and fill er up. Some times I wonder . . .

At 4:30 p.m. we arrived at Alamo Fiesta RV Park, Boerne, Tx, just west of San Antonio, 18 miles from Sea World. Once again, we got through all the big cities without running into any rush hour traffic. As JW was almost finished setting up, a couple showed up and said that the site we were in was theirs (pre-registered) I checked my papers and found that the office folks had reserved the same site for two of us. I offered to move but the couple said no, they would just setup in an empty site.

Wanda came out to help me for a few minutes and she said she had just seen a herd of deer on the far side of the park.

5:00 p.m. found us set up, water running, the door open, and dinner on the stove. What a wonderful feeling to be in warm weather once again. It was 45 degrees when we got here, but is supposed to drop to 20 tonight. It looks like this will be our last night of below freezing weather. Our relatives in California tell us they have been having 70 and 80 degree weather. Looks like it is from the freezer to the oven. However, I think we’ll have no problem adjusting to the warmer weather.

Tomorrow (Sunday), we head for El Paso, 7 hours 31 minutes or 553 miles, long day. Don’t know if I want to drive that far in one sitting or not. That’s it for this post, check back later for more updates as we continue our journey to sunny So. California.