Texas, Texas, and more Texas

We left Carlsbad, New Mexico, and drove for miles and miles through the flat, deserted looking landscape of western Texas.  We saw lots of small oil wells and many large oil trucks and workers.  Lots of oil activity in west Texas!  

We stopped to see the infamous Piasano Pete, the world's largest roadrunner, at Fort Stockton.  We expected something grander!

We camped at Junction, Texas, at South Llano River State Park.  We had a beautiful site not far from the river--with hookups!  Since CA state parks don't have water and electricity and charge much more, I am delighted.  It is bird migration season and we watched at a bird blind where we saw quite a number of birds and a skunk skittering off!  We also saw deer grazing.

The next day after a restful morning at the park, we drove to San Antonio.  We had to deal with traffic to get to our RV park.  My GPS was not working right and Colleen had to guide me through the city streets.  We stayed at a passport RV park with a great discount rate. The spaces are close together compared to state parks, but they have a pool and laundry and wifi. We quickly changed and took a bus to downtown San Antonio where we had a riverboat tour and dinner in the river walk.

The next day it was museum time!  I drove the RV to the Insitute of Texan Cultures and had to park the RV at the Alamodome  and walk back to the museum.  This was about current cultures in San Antonio and we were more interested in history.  

So we headed to the Witte Museum in a different part of town.  No parking here either because I could not go into the garage!  The Witte was much more interesting to us because it covered Texas history.  They incorporated technology and animation and it was very well presented.

Then we met my niece, Deanna, and Carol and Bill, my former sister in law and her husband for dinner.  We had a great Mexican food dinner and a nice visit!

Friday it was off to Dallas.  Storm warnings were forecast so we skipped the LBJ presidential library in Austin to make it to Dallas before the storm. 

Colleen went to her son Don's to stay for a few days in Ft. Worth.  I headed to Carrollton to stay at an RV park and visited with my daughter Laura.  It is nice to see family!

Texas storms are different than in California!  I had great RV neighbours who warned me of the possible tornado and what to do.  6:00 am Sunday morning the siren went off.  It wasn't as loud as I expected so I did not rush.  I got dressed and took valuables with me and headed to the clubhouse.  I was greeted with Happy Mothers Day!  If the tornado seemed imminent, we would all get in the centermost room of the clubhouse, which is the women's bathroom.  I can't imagine it would be big enough!  As it was, we watched TV storm coverage and visited until we saw the danger had passed.  It made for an exciting memory!

I had a nice visit again with Laura on Mothers Day.

Monday was spent taking the RV to get checked out in Dallas.  The engine developed a noise I was not familiar with.  But all is well.  The AC also needs a repair and the RV park had a person who does work for them.  He is coming tomorrow and as soon as he is done, we will be on our way out of Texas!