We’ve just been killing a few days near Galveston, Texas. Weather has mostly been pretty crummy but with a few bits of sunshine.
We are on to a campground near Lafayette, Louisiana, tomorrow. We are hoping it is swampy. We love the swamps.
Our last morning, staying near Waco:
We are camping at Quintana Beach County Park for a few days. Cheap, steps from the Gulf of Mexico, warmer temps, and laundry facilities!
There’s a long jetty next to the campground between the gulf and the river with lots of interesting sights.
On to Galveston Bay tomorrow.
Our original plan was to spend a week helping with a Samaritans Purse hurricane rebuild in South Texas. We applied but turns out we were too old! Well we really aren’t to old to do it, but they reserve the end of February and beginning of March for college students on spring break to serve. That’s a great idea! So then we tried to do something similar through the Evangelical Free Church of America’s but that ended up not working either. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. But that meant we needed to kill a week before going on to New Orleans. So we headed towards Waco. So what’s in Waco? If you are a gal, you probably know. Magnolia Market is not something on my bucket list and I could take it or leave it but here we go.
Most of the scenery leaving Austin was just lots of flat ranch land. But here’s one pic I took. Gotta love some cows!
We are spending a few days at Mother Neff State Park on our way to Waco. It’s fine but nothing special. Except for the noise and vibration coming from the SpaceX rocket testing facility that’s 7 miles away. It shakes the trailer.
Because it’s winter, the trees are pretty bare and the water levels are low due to a drought. But here’s a few pics from our hike at the campground.
I set my expectations low for Magnolia. But I had read that Wednesday was the least crowded day and the 43 degree temperature and the brisk breeze probably helped to keep the crowds to a minimum. It was delightful!
Because I dragged John to Magnolia (he was a good sport), he got to go to the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco.. He really enjoyed that. Thanks Shirley Dacko for the suggestion.
It will be below freezing tonight. Hoping for warmer weather tomorrow as we head towards the Gulf tomorrow.
After a long uneventful drive through Texas, we arrived in Austin to spend a few days sightseeing with our old friend, Kim Kostka. Of course, meaning that we’ve been friends for a LONG time, not that she’s old.
We did have an interesting thing happen to us as we were driving to meet Kim for our last day of adventure with her. We stopped at a gas station and John and I were standing out by the pumps. A guy approached us and asked John if he played guitar. Yes. Then he asked if he had played at open mic at Java Joes in Yorba Linda! Turns out Sam was a friend of Chuck, the owner of Java Joes, and had been there many times and saw John play. Then we remembered who he was. What a small world!
We will miss the fabulous food and unique vibe in Austin but it’s time to move on. We are leaving today and on to the next adventure. See y’all next time.
We are back on the road after almost two years. This trip will probably only be about three months long but we are going to some new states so I thought I’d continue the blog. Our itinerary is a long weekend in Austin, Texas with our friend Kim Kostka who recently moved to Austin from Orange County. After that we will be meandering to New Orleans. Travis and his friend, Nic, will be flying down from Nashville to join us. Then we will travel to Santa Rosa Beach on the Florida Panhandle to join Travis and Jessica and the kids for their spring break. From there we will travel north to Nashville and camp in their back yard until they are sick of us. After that we will travel around the western part of Kentucky which we missed in 2016, and then enjoy Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Missouri, the four states in the middle of the country that we missed.
We are trying to figure out how to do the blog (of course they have updated the software and changed everything) and John is trying to figure out the Roku, trying soooo hard not to ask our kids for help. I know. First world problems.
The first part of our journey was a little different since we’ve moved to San Clemente and google maps sent us to San Diego and then across on the 8.
We are not in California!
We are spending the night in a Walmart parking lot in Fredericksburg, Texas and then on to Austin tomorrow!
And, I messed up my weather widget on the blog so waiting for my internet guru (Travis) to get back from a business trip to fix it for me! So much for trying to be technology independent.