Bill & Jeri's RV Travels: Day 4 -- Texas Bound

We pulled out of the Diamond Jack's Casino campground around 9:00 AM this morning. When we arrived yesterday evening the lady running the campground was just leaving, so she said she would be in around 10:00 AM and we could settle up then. This all sounds good, except she didn't give us the codes to get in the bathroom or on the wi-fi and since she wasn't in when we left we haven't paid her, although we will call and settle up with them.

It didn't take us long to get to Texas

For some reason my very expensive Garmin GPS (a Zumo 390 that I normally use on the bike) kept screwing up the route, although I think this was my fault, so my chief and excellent navigator (that would be Jeri) researched on her phone and with the new Rand McNally Atlas I bought yesterday because I forgot the other new one I bought at home and got us squared away so we could do a wide pass east and north of the Dallas-Fort Worth area and get us on 287 north and west to I-40 just east of Amarillo.

We pulled into a church parking lot in some small town and Jeri fixed us egg salad sandwiches for lunch, then got back on the road.

Going through Wichita Falls we had to get a picture of the Sheppard AFB sign, since I spent almost a year of my Air Force life going to DSTE and Crypto school there before going to Vietnam.

Just before our last gas up (about every 100 miles, because 9 mpg doesn't get one very far and out here in the West I never like to get much below half a tank) Jeri talked to Vicki for quite awhile and while I was gassing up she got to talk to the boys. We sure miss Vicki, Jack and Max a lot already, and we have 28 days to go on the RV adventure extravaganza!

Jeri booked us a campsite, #20, at the Olde Town Cotton Gin RV Park and we rolled in to our campsite (reserved with a orange cone and with an envelope containing TV stations on the cable, wi-fi code and other bits of info) at 7:00 PM after ten hours of travel.

Our campsite at the Olde Town Cotton Gin RV Park

On these overnighters I don't disconnect the trailer from the Jeep. I just crank the hitch up a bit to take some load off the Jeep springs and level the trailer, then run down the stabilizer jacks to steady her. If we were boondocking I would disconnect the wiring harness so as not to risk running the Jeep battery down, but so far, as hot as it's been we've wanted the A/C in the trailer.