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We pulled back into the Duck Commander at 9 to browse the gift shop. By 9:30 we were NOLA bound.   We didn’t realize we had the added bonus of driving through Mississippi on our journey.  The ‘highway’ the GPS chose was a two way road thick with woods on either side; the kind of woods fromContinueContinue reading “The longest bridge to NOLA“

We were on the road to West Monroe by 7:30 in the morning so we got to see a very pretty version of the Dallas skyline. Our breakfast stop was the Tyler Walmart. Is this the famous Walmart that Linda Burklin shops at? I was very disappointed with my soggy, wilted-lettuce chicken wrap. It mayContinueContinue reading “Three vanilla folders”

      We were on the road just before 5 this morning, trying to get to Dallas to drop off the RV by the 11am cut-off.  Once we had retracted the RV slide-outs, the kids went back to sleep. Such a smooth run we had with a ETA of 9:45 giving us a great buffer to clean theContinueContinue reading “A day of muddles”

After another early wake up, I actually fell asleep at around 5:30.  So I ended up sleeping in til 7.   By 8 we were waving goodbye to Patsy and headed for Odessa.  After the rugged beauty of Arizona, this part of Texas is blah.  Dry scrubby flats for mile upon mile with only  oil rigs nodding slowly breaking upContinueContinue reading “Hangry at Texas Roadhouse”

Jet lag once again was our friend, enabling us to be on the road early, leaving the RV park just as dawn crept over the Tombstone country.  Gotta say, I am really missing my morning coffee. All I want is a cappuccino…. The policeman at our first border security stop assured us that our drive toContinueContinue reading “That time we stumbled into a hole in the wall”

I woke up really cold at about 2 am and suddenly wished I had paid more attention to the RV instructional video on how to turn on the heater. Shivering and barefoot, I fumbled my way blindly until my hand grazed the instruction manual.  I huddled up on the freezing little steps next to the doorContinueContinue reading “Tombstone and the shower-curtain-toilet-doors”

1/4 to six in the morning saw us readying ourselves to leave Vegas and begin our RV road trip.  We Ubered to the front of the casino that the RV company would give us free shuttle service from.  The morning air was chill and we were pleased to see our friendly shuttle driver BJ pull up 45ContinueContinue reading “Road tripping and the fridge disaster”

Kara felt a bit head-coldy when she woke, but the rest of us were down in the lobby catching the shuttle in to the Strip by 10 am.   It was a cloudy day and pleasant for the middle of winter.  A good day to walk down the Strip. I had googled from home in AustraliaContinueContinue reading “Everything is bigger in Vegas”

At 4 am we were all seated in the hotel ( motel really) lobby awaiting our shuttle.United ran such a well oiled machine, (clearly calling up and loading passengers onto the plane in small efficient batches) that we actually left San Francisco early!After flying over the majestic snow-capped Sierra Mountains, we landed smoothly. We cameContinueContinue reading “An Uber amount of Uber in Vegas”