Houston and Walmart. We got to Houston in the evening. I had made an online reservation at an RV park with availability. When we got there, they were all locked up with no one to check us in. I left a message and we went to have dinner. We never got a call back and since we could not find another available RV park, we decided to Boondock in a Walmart parking lot. If you are not part of the "RV culture" you might not know that there are several pl...

Texas was a bust! Saturday the rain cleared up for a while and we decided to drive down to Plano to visit Zach, my former manager, at the Tommy Bahama Restaurant there. We had a nice lunch. Of course I had the Sanibel Stuffed Chicken and the Grapefruit Basil Martini, I have been craving both since I left. As soon as we finished lunch, we got on the road to Houston.

Abilene was a good stopping place because it is halfway between Carlsbad and Dallas. Since the place we were planning to stay overnight was still flooded, we decided to boondock at "See Bee State Park", on a lake on the north side of Abilene. When it's not flooded, it looks like it might have some nice walking trails and spots to fish and kayak. Today it looked like a murky marsh. But there was a spot high enough for us to park for the day while Rob worked and st...