We stopped outside of Abilene at Tye last night. The campground was right off the freeway; noisy and not very pretty. It was 95 degrees when we stopped at 4 after a long day of driving. With wind forecast, we wanted to get as far as possible with a goal of being in Texarkana on Monday for a 2 day stay at a Corps of Engineers campground. We hunkered down after setting up the motorhome and put on the air conditioning to keep it cool and help eliminate some of the freeway noise.
Once it started getting dark, the wind started up. Now, anyone who knows us well, knows that Bob can sleep through anything so it was up to Paige to monitor the wind and make sure that nothing was being damaged. She did her job so well that there was nothing damaged except her sleep!
We left around 9 a.m. and the wind was already pretty strong and forecasted to be even more. Bob did a good job keeping us on the road and we arrived at our KOA campground just East of Dallas at around 1:30. This gave us time to do errands, laundry, grocery shopping and have a good dinner at a local restaurant - a clone of Famous Dave's from MN. Meanwhile, the wind continued - gusts around 35 mph.
While going around Dallas, we noticed that there were several instances of cars stopping along the freeway to take pictures of children/family/friends among huge areas of blue flowers. In order to feel part of the local culture, we took one of me (note the wind swept hairdo!). This was taken on a local frontage road not the freeway, however.
We'll be watching the weather and heading to Texarkana, TX when travelling looks good - hopefully, tomorrow.
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