On the Road Again ...

This is the view when we open the door to our RV in the morning. Life is good. Friends and family, get out the maps, because we are on the move again!

For the last three months we have enjoyed our stay at Retama Village. We made some new friends, had some great "Happy Hours" and built ourselves a little nest to come back to at any time, should we choose to. But now it is time to go back on the road again and this time we are doing it a little bit different. We have decided to take the VW Rabbit with us, which means we are both driving at the same time. We will try not to do more then 250 - 300 miles a day and stay in a place at least 7 days before moving on. Given the high diesel prices and the mobility that the little car gives us, it sure seems to make sense. Ask me again at the end of this season, which should be around the end of November.

So we started our trip on Tuesday and headed north west to Eagle Pass, TX for our first stop at a local Casino that had free RV parking. It was 277 miles and a very interesting day. It is not so easy for me to follow, since Doug now has the GPS and if I loose him, I don't know where to go. After running two red lights to make sure I don't loose him, I realized that first of all I have cell phone, a walkie talkie and the rig is so big, I can see him from a mile away, unless a tractor trailer gets in front of me. I settled down and the rest of the first day went well. We continued on yesterday to Alpine, TX, which is about 100 miles north of Big Bend National Park, the reason why we are traveling this way. The road we traveled on had very little traffic, so we moved along quit well and were able to stop at an interesting little picnic area on Route 90.

We are now about 6 miles south of Alpine, TX in a very small RV park, enjoying the quite and being parked in mother nature. We will be here for a week and decided today to check out the town and see what it has to offer. It was nice to be able to browse the local gift shops, have a nice lunch and check out the Big Bend museum.

Tomorrow, we will drive down to Big Bend National Park and check it out.