Trip West Day 3
Another long day on the road with no mishaps! That is always a good day.
We traveled from Edwards, MS to Wichita Falls, TX before pulling over for the night at a Walmart. We actually grabbed dinner out (girls went in Walmart to get Subway, the rest of
us got Jack In The Box). We cranked up the generators and let the A/C get going. 3 other RVers and 3 truckers stayed all night. The generator noise and a/c noise allowed me decent sleep for anWalmart. It was our first time running the generators all night, so Mark kept getting up and checking on them. They did run out of gas around 2am and had to be filled up.
The drive through Texas is so long! We tried back roads to avoid going through Dallas. Not the best decision as we ended up in a ton of stop and go traffic and hit decent size suburbs at rush hour. The funniest thing of the day was when we were on a 2 lane road and had a parade of cars behind us. We monitor Channel 19 on the CB radio. Two truckers behind us were complaining about how slow we were going - not knowing we were listening in. Went something like this:
"That trailer thinks he can go 60"
"Yeah, just driving along, not a care in the world."
"He should pull over and let us pass..."
When it was safe, we did pull over and let them and the other cars go by. I learned after watching Joyride not to mess with truckers (ha).
Really so far things have gone smoothly, just slow.
We traveled from Edwards, MS to Wichita Falls, TX before pulling over for the night at a Walmart. We actually grabbed dinner out (girls went in Walmart to get Subway, the rest of
us got Jack In The Box). We cranked up the generators and let the A/C get going. 3 other RVers and 3 truckers stayed all night. The generator noise and a/c noise allowed me decent sleep for anWalmart. It was our first time running the generators all night, so Mark kept getting up and checking on them. They did run out of gas around 2am and had to be filled up.
The drive through Texas is so long! We tried back roads to avoid going through Dallas. Not the best decision as we ended up in a ton of stop and go traffic and hit decent size suburbs at rush hour. The funniest thing of the day was when we were on a 2 lane road and had a parade of cars behind us. We monitor Channel 19 on the CB radio. Two truckers behind us were complaining about how slow we were going - not knowing we were listening in. Went something like this:
"That trailer thinks he can go 60"
"Yeah, just driving along, not a care in the world."
"He should pull over and let us pass..."
When it was safe, we did pull over and let them and the other cars go by. I learned after watching Joyride not to mess with truckers (ha).
Really so far things have gone smoothly, just slow.
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