On the Road Again….. Our Fall Trip

We had been planning to do a Fall trip for several months. Our trip will take us to Little Rock, Washington DC, the Pennsylvania Amish Country, and New York City. We had planned to start the trip at a campout with the Gulf Coast RV Club at the Wolf Creek State Park on Lake Livingston this weekend. However, Hurricane Ike eliminated that when most of the members of the club, who live in the Houston area, had severe storm damage and could not spare the time. Some members even lost their RV's to the storm or had damage. In addition, Ike took out the electricity at the park, as well as most of East Texas. From there, we would have headed to North Little Rock to attend the FMCA “Rally at the Rock” convention. Connie and Manuel, our new Tiffin-Owner friends from the San Antonio-based ‘Allegro Amigos’ Tiffin club had decided to join us to both events. Earlier in the month, I was served a court summons to be on the County Grand Jury, which was to meet this past Friday!!! I managed to get excused from that! Regardless, the trip was still on!!

After talking with Connie and Manuel, we decided to leave on Thursday, as planned, but to instead travel up to Dallas and then head to Little Rock. We met up with them at the Flying “J” truck stop in Waco, and then drove to Dallas together. We intended to stop at Willie Nelson’s new truckstop and music emporium at Carl’s Corner, but it was not open yet!

We got to Dallas about 5:00pm and decided to stop at a Wal-Mart for the night. Once parked, we got into my car and drove to a Papasito’s Mexican Cantina for dinner. It was great! Here’s a picture:

Here’s a picture of our rigs in the night light at the Wal-Mart:

On Friday, we decided to go the Fort Worth Stockyard. We saw the area, watched to longhorn cattle drive down the main street, and had lunch. Here are a few photos:


Since my RVing buddy, Mark, is going to buy a new Phaeton motorhome in two weeks, he has been looking for a car to tow behind it. He asked me to be on the lookout for one, and when we spotted this one, Connie said “it would be perfect for Mark!”. She hasn’t’ met him yet, but she seems to know him well!!


Manuel really liked the set of longhorns on the front. While shopping, we found some for his Phaeton, but he did not think his Mercedes engine had enough power to push it with the horns attached………… so we left them for somebody else!


Of course, no visit to the stockyards would be complete without a visit to my sidewalk plaque. I’m pretty sure it is to honor me although nobody every told me about it. It must be mine............ It is my name!!!


We wrapped up our visit with a trip to Billy Bob’s Honky Tonk. It cost a $1 each to get in, but it was worth it. We got to see the dance floor, restaurant, event theater, and indoor rodeo arena. We even got to see a real (stuffed) bear:


We spend last night in a Walmart parking lot in Texarkana, TX, and today, we are going to stop at the Arkansas Welcome Center and let them route us a tourist route of Eastern Arkansas.