Travel to New Orleans, LA

January 20, 2012 | New Orleans, LA

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Cajun Palms is only about two hours drive from New Orleans. We got into town early enough to have some Gumbo for lunch at the Gumbo Shop. We rested up a bit in the afternoon and hit the French Quarter for dinner and our favorite hangout, the Erin Rose.

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Cajun Palms RV Resort

January 19, 2012 | Breaux Bridge, LA

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January 18-19, 2012: This resort could be classified as a mega-resort. There are multiple pools, one is a playground in a pool, a couple of bars, putt-putt golf, two fishing ponds, and about 300 campsites. There were about 1/10th that many campers when we stayed here. The place was a vast field of cement pads and picnic tables. None of the activites were open, but even this had been in summer we probably wouldn’t have used them anyway. Normally this is not our sort of campground, but at $35/night it was a far cry better than an iffy KOA at $45. I could see this being a wonderful family destination campground and in mid-January it suited our needs quite well.

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Travel to Henderson, LA

January 18, 2012 | Breaux Bridge, LA

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Before leaving San Antonio, we stopped in at Tito’s for breakfast. We both ordered the Migas Plate, which comes with potatoes cooked with chorizo and refried beans. Darren had to get on a phone call for a meeting so the whole thing was a bit rushed, but we got our food to go and headed over to the Alamo. We were going to take the tour until we learned that THERE’S NO BASEMENT! Since that was all we were interested in, we just snapped some photos as we headed out of town. Our plan was to make it to Beaumont, TX, but when we got there it was early and the park we were going to stay at did not look all that promising, we decided to press on. Made it all the way to Henderson, LA, so now our drive to New Orleans tomorrow will be a short one.

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Blazing Star RV Resort

January 18, 2012 | San Antonio, TX

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January 16 – 18, 2012: The Blazing Star RV Resort is a Woodall’s 5W campground. It is very well kept and has a brand new office and pool area. We hadn’t planned on staying for more than one night and we arrived late so we just grabbed the first spot that was open. It was [...]

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Still Day in San Antonio

January 17, 2012 | San Antonio, TX

Dinner at Casa Rio on the Riverwalk

Tired from the previous long day of traveling, we decided to stay another night in San Antonio. This gave us time to drive downtown and visit the River Walk. We walked through the park, along the river and ate lunch at Casa Rio.

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Travel to San Antonio, TX

January 16, 2012 | San Antonio, TX

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Headed out early from Las Cruces for a very long drive across the great state of Texas. Texas sure is big and very interested in my citizenship. Also know your grower! If you don’t you are not buying milk & beef from a farm. I promise you.

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Hacienda RV Resort

January 16, 2012 | Las Cruces, NM

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We have stayed at this resort two other times. In the vaccuum of decent campgrounds that seems to exist in the Las Cruces/El Paso area, this resort is a welcome site. It is clean, nicely landscaped, and there are privacy fences in between sites that are not back to back. It also has an almost-too-large [...]

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Travel to Las Cruces, NM

January 15, 2012 | Las Cruces, NM

Scenery on the drive

Today we left our month-long home of Desert’s Edge. Before heading out of Phoenix, we met Darren’s parents and grandmother for breakfast. We went to Royal Cafe Restaurant. It was a pleasant visit and the food was good. Our long term destination for this journey is Florida. The racing season is about to start up [...]

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Desert’s Edge RV Park

January 15, 2012 | Phoenix, AZ

On the scoots

December 13, 2011 – January 15, 2012 – One of the first things we did when we moved into our more permanent spot was to put up Christmas lights. We have an orange tree by the road, so it was ideal for decorating. We then decorated the interior of the RV. We went to Target [...]

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A New Year means New Paths

January 1, 2012 | Phoenix, AZ

2012 Plans

Merrry New Year! We have been working on our travel plans for the upcoming year and I thought it might be interesting to see what our path would look like mapped out. This is a very general plan that only includes the places that we know we have to visit. Many of the routes on [...]

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