Nov. 12 to 29th
We are camped in Hickory Creek Corps Park in Hickory Creek Texas which is located on Lake Dallas and north of Dallas, Fort Worth area. Our site sits along the lake.
Next stop is Willis TX where we are close enough to Louisiana to go there and geocache in the Lake Charles area.
We visit New Braunfels, northeast of San Antonio, and spend three days visiting our friends Bill and Jean. They take us to the Gruene Historic District where Gruene Hall is the oldest dance hall in Texas and George Strait and Lyle Lovett got their start. They have live bands and singers every night. We checked out some of the shops in the area and ended up at a BBQ place for dinner.
We spend Thanksgiving at Median Lake, just west of San Antonio. Ate Thanksgiving dinner at the Community Center. Dick has always wanted to go to Lockhart Texas which is famous for their BBQ restaurants so we drive the Jeep there for the day. We had lunch at Black's where we met one of the owners. He took us to the back to see the pit. It smelled so good with all the smoked meat. The food was so good we ended up buying some to go. We also bought brisket at Smity's BBQ to take home.
Fort Stockton was our next stop in Texas. This area is booming with new oil wells being drilled everywhere. Most campgrounds are filled with oil workers. The speed limit on highway 90 going across Texas was 80 mph.
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| Oil well drilling |
We spent 2 night in Las Cruces New Mexico. Traffic was terrible going through El Paso and surprised at how large a town El Paso and right across the border, Juarez Mexico is.
While driving around we were able to watch the pecans being harvested. They shake the pecans from the trees with a machine that grabs the limbs and then they blow the pecans and leaves in rows where they are picked up by another machine. It was a dirty process and dust was flying everywhere.
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| Shaking the pecan tree |
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| Rows of pecans and leaves |
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| Machine that picked-up pecans |
Arizona
Nov. 30
We spent 3 night in Tucson Arizona and enjoy the beautiful desert around Tucson by doing some geocaching. Visited Saguaro National Park see lots of Saguaro and other kinds of cactus.
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| Saguaro National Park |
Yuma Arizona
Arrive in Yuma on Dec. 3rd and decide to stay for 4 months. Have traveled over 6000 miles so far on this trip. We like it here in Yuma and there is lots to do to keep us busy. We know lots of people here and they include us in their activities. We go to Algodones Mexico once a week to party. We spent Christmas Eve at Charlene and George's house for dinner with the Mexico group and a Christmas party at Ed and Karen's house. New Year's Eve we went to a party at Pearl and Arlan's house. We get together with our friends Laura and Wilbur often to play cards and go out to dinner. Also trips out into the desert with Bob and Joyce and Don and Jane with their ATV Razors and our Jeep. Dick and I do a lot of geocaching on days there is no other activities.
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| Music at the Paraiso in Algodones Mexico |
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| Partying in Mexico before Christmas |
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| Out in the desert for the afternoon |
Jan. 6 to 13th we took the motor home to Palm Desert and Indio California to a Family Motor Coach Rally. While there we drove to Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountain National Monument. From the top of the mountain you can see the towns in the valley below. We joined the Northwest Bus Nuts even though we have a Monaco Motor Home. We had fun at the rally and made some new friends.
On the trip back to Yuma, Dick did not put the Jeep in Neutral to tow it and when we got back to Yuma the Transmission and Transfer Case were toast. Had to call a tow truck to take it to the Jeep dealer in Yuma. On Monday we found out it was going to cost $5,000 to put in a transmission and transfer case so we decided to buy a new Jeep. Got a 2013 four door Deep Cherry Red with Black Top Jeep Wrangler. Love to drive the new Jeep and it has so much more room.
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| New Jeep |
Happy Travels, Barb
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