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Monday

 

Texas Highways.  Gotta love em, right?

No shoulder.  Old asphalt.  Houses.  Driveways.  75 mph.  Well, at least it has a centerline.

 

There is one bird that has been seen all around us in Texas, but we missed it every time.  Our nemesis bird, the Mississippi Kite.  Well, just before we left Texas, all the way north to Wolf Creek County Park, we suddenly, just in time, found our Mississippi Kites.  Not just one or two, but we saw eight of them while we were there.  Bird number 404 for the year.

 

Didn’t get a picture, but here is what it looks like.

(Not my photo.)

 

The last two new Texas counties for this part of the trip.

 

 

 

Along the way, at a Colorado Rest stop.

 

Petrified mud?

 

John Martin Reservoir State Park for the night.  No internet.

 

 

 

I swear there are other campers here.  You just can’t see them.

 

For the first time since 2019, we drove the motorhome out of Texas.  We left the state!

 

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Sunday

 

Wolf Creek County Park.  No internet.

 

2021 Fall Trip Map

 

 

 

 

 

Taking roads we haven’t traveled before.  Racking up new counties as we go:

 

Start of trip.

 

Today.

 

Whittling down the list of counties still to see in Texas.  We’ll have picked off 18 new ones after we get those last two at the top tomorrow.

 

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Daytrip!

 

To Fischer, TX.

 

Fischer, TX map

 

 

To see Carolyn and Richie.

 

 

Some of us remember Carolyn from Island Woman in Port Aransas.

 

…and their new house.  Love the windows.

 

…and the view out back.

 

 

Then back to the current home base, Texas Custom Coach Resort and Spa!

 

 

The refrigerator laid on it’s face on the floor all day getting its backside fixed.  It’s back in place now, but we’ll need to let it normalize overnight before we turn it back on again.

 

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On the road again

 

This is it.  We’re on the big trip of the year.  Drove from home to Texas Custom Coach in Pipe Creek to see our friends there.  We’ve just passed our 16th anniversary in this coach and the refrigerator has aged-out.  We’re going to get the cooling unit replaced so our fridge will be able to keep up with the hot weather on this trip.  They always take great care of us here.

 

2011 Fall Trip Map link

 

 

Parked for the night in their yard so we’ll be right here ready for them when they’re ready for us tomorrow morning.  50 amp service.  The Texas Custom Coach RV Resort!

 

From here to Oregon, then Edmonds, WA in August, Erie, CO in September, Phoenix, AZ in October, and back home in November.  We’re 266 miles into the trip.  Only 5,920 miles to go.