Dallas, Texas – Monday & Tuesday

We left Odessa on Sunday night about 7:00pm and drove about 175 miles to Abilene, Texas, and stayed overnight in a Texas rest area. We had earlier stopped in one closer to Odessa, but the WIFI was not working. We then decided to drive another 60 miles to the next rest area, and when we got there, it was not working either, but we spent the night!

We dumped and filled up with gas and water at the Abilene (Tye) Flying ‘J’, and drove into Dallas. We had located the Pappasito’s Mexican restaurants while on Ron’s WIFI, and we headed to the closest one which was in Fort Worth. We had waited until almost 2:00pm to eat lunch, but it was worth it. We had really missed ‘tex-mex’ food!!

We then drove to Vogt’s RV in Dallas to look at both Tiffin and Newmar motorhomes. They did not have the Allegro Bay (gas) in stock that their website said that they had, but we looked at a Phaeton that we liked. We also looked at a diesel Kountry Star, and instantly regained our interest in the Kountry Star. Patsy is now on the “I want a diesel kick”.

After Vogt, we went drove up highway I-35E to Denton, where we dropped the motor home at a Wal-Mart parking lot and went to the McClain RV store to see the Winnebago 38T, again. They had one, and we decided that we still like the layout…. a lot! The salesman there told us about a diesel Winnebago Vectra that they had at their Rockwall store, about 25 miles east of Dallas on I-30. So, we picked up the motor home, and drove to a Walmart near Rockwall with the intention of going to see it on Tuesday.

Tuesday morning, we had breakfast in bed (Patsy walked to the nearby McDonald’s to pick up “hot cakes with sausage”), and then we drove to the Rockwall store. No Vectra (supposedly taken to the RV show), but we did see a 38T with dark wood. I also got to talk to a fairly knowledgeable salesman about my diesel vs gas debate going on in my head! Now I have more opinions to weigh the difference.

We drove by the Market Place Center, site of the RV show, and found the parking the same as last year, except for some repaving, so we moved the motor home there. We plan to park here on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and, unless we need to stay another day to negotiate a motor home price, we plan to leave for Victoria on Thursday night.

We called our nephew, Clint, and invited him to go out to dinner with us. We decided on the Spaghetti Warehouse in the West End District in Dallas. We met him there, and had some good Italian food. Here's photos of Patsy and Clint at the restaurant and some general pictures of the West End area (the second picture is of the 'owls' outside the local Hooter's restaurant):