Texas

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 [...]

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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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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

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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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