We left Mark and Sue's house in Lake Charles at about 9:30AM, and I stopped at the Texas Welcome station to use the WIFI to post yesterdays blog message. We also stopped at the Flying 'J' truck stop in Baytown to fill up on diesel and to dump and flush the waste water tanks. In Houston, I stopped at the Cummins repair shop on North Loop610 to buy some fuel filters, and then we stopped at the Papasito's Mexican Restaurant on Hwy 59 (west of town) to eat.
When we got to the Didelot's, we went to the artist shop where Sue was painting and managing the shop for the morning. We saw some of her paintings and picked our motorhome sign that she modified for us....... it used to have a picture of our Airstream motorhome on it. She did a great job! Here are some pictures of Patsy and Sue, and the sign:
Sue also did some artwork on the sidewalk in front of the shop, and it became the cover picture advertising the shop. The following is a re-creation of that photo:
When we got to Mark and Sue's house, we parked in our regular spot with full hookups...... we had a 50AMP plug, water, and he said we could dump our sewer wherever we wanted to! We also had WIFI, and it was like a real RV park.................. intermittent and poor service from the owner when we complained!! I did get an offer of double my money back, but I declined!! We appreciated it anyway and had a good visit. If you look closely, you will see that the motorhome and car were real dirty....... we drove in rain all the way from the RV dealer in Mississippi.
We Mark invited us to stay over, we did not know that he was having a Christmas dinner for some of his employees. We sort of imposed on it, but it was worth it. Sue fried catfish, and had some rice with a white gravy with fish in it, as well as a big pot of green beans. She also had an apple pie for dessert. Patsy said he invited me to provide entertainment for his guests and to make him look smarter!!!Mark has become a good RV friend, and while we were in a Wal-Mart in Mississippi, I found a perfect gift for him.................... and not worrying about cost, I immediately purchased it. He opened it at the dinner and after several attempts, he got it to work well. Here he is with his Christmas "Pooping Penguin":
We were really glad to be home. It was somewhat stressful driving a new and bigger motorhome in the rain and in all the construction. At times, it looked like the trucks and the road barriers were targeting to get us!! Here are some pictures of the road from Patsy's vantage point:
There were some worse situations, but Patsy had her eyes shut or her head under a blanket during those times. There were some at night also! We were both exhausted when we got home. It was about an 800 mile drive in two days.On the way home, I decided that since a lot of people had said to call when we got home so that they could see the Bus, I would have an "Open (motorhome} House" on Sunday. Patsy got mad at first, but then decided to have her own Christmas Open House in the 'other' house.
Later............
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