Sunday, October 28 we packed up and left Guthrie at 9:15. It was a nice sunny day with a bit of a tailwind which had us up to 12.5 MPG at one point before the breeze died. Still averaged 11.5 MPG for the whole trip of about 325 miles. I’ll take that any day.
We were on I35 right from Guthrie to Waco which took us through both Oklahoma City and Fort Worth. Traffic was heavy the whole way and the route through Oklahoma City is badly in need of repair. Lots of bouncing and chucking with a trailer in tow. We were advised not to take the route through Dallas as the traffic is real bad and Fort Worth would be much better. Fort Worth turned out to be super busy plus lots of construction so if Dallas is worse I’m never driving through Dallas. We had 2 GPSs going and one was very confused. Definitely glad we had the Garmin RV GPS as its maps were much more current and handled the new roads and rerouting through the construction zones better than the trucks factory system.
At one point a Semi passed us and then pulled in front of us. Lori noticed a shredded tire on the road up ahead. The Semi veered right and I followed, just missing the tire. Mark, who was following me, wasn’t so lucky, running right over it.
We made it to Waco and after following a bunch of back country roads through neighbourhoods that brought the movie “Deliverance” to mind we arrived at Riverview Campground. The campground actually isn’t too bad with level concrete pads and lots of mature shade trees. As I write this we are sitting in our trailer and we keep hearing acorns hitting and bouncing along the roof. First time we thought someone was knocking at the door. I duck every time I hear one fall.
Lori and Jan have planned out our day tomorrow with Mark and I responsible for getting them to Magnolia Market and a few other stops and then stay out of their way. We are planning on finding some benches and people watch while the girls shop.
Oh, by the way. Its 90F here today. Not too hard to take.
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