Today was traveling day. Tomorrow will arrive at our destination. Have traveled over 1100 miles. Staying in Walmart parking lot in Fort Stockton tonight.
Day 4 – Leap Day
Day 3 – Fort Worth Stockyard
On Friday, we went into Fort Worth, Texas to visit the Stockyards. An area of town that takes you back to the old west long ago. The town was full of stores, restaurants, rodeo coliseum, and a bunch of cowboys dressed the part.
About 11:30am, the towns people gathered along the street curbs awaiting the morning haunt of the Longhorns. Everyday at this time, several cowboys on horses guide about 18 huge steers with the longest horns I’ve ever seen. They marched downtown for a couple of blocks to their stables for the day. At 4:30pm, they return on the same path to their sleeping stables. It was pretty cool. They were giving us a small snapshot of what the cowboys did long ago, but with 1,800 longhorns!
We ate lunch at a steakhouse that was full of cowboys and cowgirls. Steaks were great and reasonable priced.
Then we strolled up and down the small western town, found our magnet for Texas, and enjoyed the atmosphere similar to long ago.
We returned to the RV park in Grand Prairie, washed the car and RV, and ate supper in the RV. Tomorrow, we boondock overnight, about 3 hours from our final destination, Maverick Ranch RV Park, Lajitas, TX.
Day 2 – Dallas
Around 9am, we left the Texas rest area and headed to Dallas/Fort Worth RV campground, Traders Village. Sites are a little tight, but nice concrete pads for the RVs.
On the way we stopped for gas at the largest gas station I have ever seen. Called Buc-ee’s. Not only did they sell gas at their extra long lanes, they sold sandwich’s and other eats, candy and fudge, gift items, shirts and other clothing, and much more.
We arrived about 2:30pm and setup our RV. About 3:30pm we went to the Book Depository Building and visited The Sixth Floor Museum where the shooter was located in the asassination of John F Kennedy. Spent a couple hours in there. Was very interesting. Suggest everyone visit the museum, if you have a chance.
Ended the night at a really nice Tex-Mex restaurant near the RV park.
Go West RV’ers…
Our next trip is our longest so far… one week at Maverick Ranch RV Park in Lajitas, Texas next to Big Bend National Park. Located on west side of Texas next to the border. Are we ready for such a long adventure???
Two weeks prior to leaving, our big RV slide stopped extending and retracting. Then our steps started making a grinding noise. A week in the shop, and we are ready to begin our western adventure… we thought!?!?
Day 1 – We left the cabin Wednesday morning about 7:15am and arrived at a rest area just across the Texas border around 8pm. First stop was a rest area to eat lunch. Found out our battery for our towed CRV was dead. Bummer!
Then we stopped to get gas and mistakenly locked us out of the RV. Argh! Luckily our friends had a step ladder and our friend, Lisa, crawled thru the passenger window to get us out of a jam!
Back on the road finally til supper at Cracker Barrel. Made a Walmart run then stopped to get gas. Then found out the pumps were out of gas and we got stuck trying to get out. Had to disconnect the car, push it out of the way to turn the RV around, then jumped off the battery from our friends car, then reattached it at another gas station. Drove about 15 minutes to the rest area to spend the night. Arrived to find only one empty trucker slot, then one trucker decided to leave getting us eac a place to park for overnight. Quite an adventure for day 1! Surely Day 2 can’t get any worse…
