2011

Sunshine Key RV Resort

February 21, 2012 | Big Pine Key, Florida

The shore at Sunshine Key Resort

February 20-21, 2012: Since I was unable to get us a spot at the state campgrounds for this one night, we rented a spot at a private resort. Our spot at Susnshine Key RV Resort was not very attractive. As a matter of fact, I forgot to document our site. They do have some wonderful [...]

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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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Travel to Phoenix

December 13, 2011 | Phoenix, AZ

Scenery on the drive

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Hacienda RV Resort

December 13, 2011 | Las Cruces, NM

Our site at Hacienda RV Resort

Saturday,December 10th-Tuesday,December 13th: We needed somewhere to stay after Darren was done shooting grads on Saturday and since we were unable to find anything acceptable in El Paso we drove to Las Cruces. We have stayed at this resort one other time and really enjoyed the its amenities and cleanliness. It was late when we [...]

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Travel to Las Cruces, NM

December 10, 2011 | El Paso, TX

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This was a short hop from El Paso. It took us under an hour and we left after Darren completed shooting his graduations. We were not having any luck finding a place in El Paso. On our last trip out west we had stayed at the very comfortable Hacienda RV Resort in Las Cruces. So, [...]

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La Quinta means “We Allow Dogs”

December 10, 2011 | El Paso, TX

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Friday, December 9th – Saturday December 10th: Darren had to shot graduations at UTEP on Friday night and all day on Saturday. Since we were unable to find any acceptable campgrounds and Darren had to be at the graduation at 6:30am on Satruday, we decided to get a hotel. We stayed at a La Quinta [...]

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Travel to El Paso

December 9, 2011 | El Paso, TX

Scenery on Drive

This was the second half of our two day trip from Austin to El Paso, TX. They always say how big Texas is, but you don’t really understand until you transverse it. In a quick mental estimate I thought we could drive from Austin to El Paso in a few hours. We ended up splitting [...]

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Fort Stockton RV Park

December 9, 2011 | Fort Stockton, TX

Fort Stockton RV Park

December 9, 2011: This was a quick overnighter on our way from Austin to El Paso. There are many campgrounds dotted along I-10, a few of which are in and around Fort Stockton. We drove all around the town to check out no less than four of these campgrounds and decided that Fort Stockton RV [...]

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Austin & Travel to Fort Stockton

December 8, 2011 | Fort Stockton, TX

Food trucks in Austin

These pictures are more about driving around Austin than driving to Fort Stockton. Before we hit the road on our way to El Paso, we checked out Austin a bit. There is another campground there I wanted to investigate. We drove through Pine Grove RV Resort, with the idea that we might stay there, the [...]

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Austin Lone Star RV Resort

December 8, 2011 | Austin, TX

Austin Lone Star RV Resort

Tuesday, December 6 – Thursday, December 8: Originally we had planned to stay in Austin for a much longer period of time. But the best laid plans… When we couldn’t find a place to stop in Dallas we made a knee jerk reaction and decided to drive through to Austin. Well, we didn’t have a [...]

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