Lone Star Corral RV 3-1-07

It is always a bit of culture shock being in a public RV Park after spending so much time in one of the Escapees membership parks. Escapee parks don’t have people racing their engines through the park or vibrating your bones with music turned up to astro-vibe in their cars. We had that last night, but at least we never heard it after we turned in for the night.

It had been warm and sultry all night and around seven this morning a huge gust of wind rattled the trailer and it started pouring, it stormed for about fifteen minutes and then done. We hit the road around nine. It was extremely windy all the way today. Larry thought we got the worst mileage ever, lots of hills into the wind, not good for fuel consumption. The trailer was rocking really badly in the wind when we stopped for fuel and that was when we were sitting still!

We shot right through San Antonio with no problems. Highway 90 goes along the south end of downtown. Hondo is about 35 miles west of San Antonio and our park is west of Hondo about 8 miles. We are a quarter mile from the highway so we don’t really hear it unless we are outside and for the first time a train just roared by. It is the other side of the highway, they were working on the track today so we thought maybe we would luck out and the trains wouldn’t be running for the whole month that we are going to be here. I guess we aren’t going to be that lucky!

We got here at the park at 12:30, but the office is closed from 12 to 2. They don’t have that in any of their literature. We were the only ones waiting…god forbid someone should give us our spot. We saw the guy that ended up helping us roaming around in the hour and a half we had to wait, but they did not open the little window in the office until exactly 2. That kind of stuff makes me crazy. Being a member in some of these places doesn’t really get you much…certainly not service. If we had known we would have had to wait until 2 we could have done our shopping and stuff on the way in…guh. That is the stress we had for today…smile.

We traveled 167 miles today. The wind let up just about sunset. These pictures are of our site and our little street. The building to the left of our rig is the lot owner’s and we squatters don’t get the use of the structures. We are out here in the middle of farm country and the humidity is much lower than over by Houston. We are looking forward to drying out; we really dislike damp, sticky, icky, humidity.