After leaving brother Don's in La Porte Indiana, we traveled southward for 12 hours to get to a WalMart campground (aka store) west of Memphis TN, in Forest River, Arkansas. It was a long tough day of driving but the roads were good and the traffic not a problem. The prime objective was to get south far enough to escape the freezing nighttime temperatures. Mission accomplished as it only went down to about 35F or 2C.
I have to say that the geography was interesting...like how flat can it get! The rich dark black soils of Indiana and Illinois gave way to the rich brown soils of Missouri. There were only a few lazy hills along the way, the biggest of which was a bridge crossing the big Mississippi River.
Onward we went today, west and south toward Dallas, with a few more rolling hills thrown in but still mostly flat. We arrived at this campground 30 miles northeast of Dallas, an Army Corp of Engineer campground for $18 per night. It would have been cheaper if I had remembered my Seniors card...like about half price cheaper. It is a very nice spot on a man-made lake, built by the Corp of Eng, with a surprising number of campers. I imagine most will disappear tomorrow as the kids will be back to school.
Immediately upon arrival we set up the satellite dish so we could (well really me, not Bev), watch the hockey game tonight. Then tomorrow it will be the Nascar race and Battle of the Blades. Can't miss the Battle!
I checked for Wi-Fi in the area and found one free access open at one and sometimes two bars. I got the new Wi-Fi antenna installed and the signal shot up to 4 bars. I don't know where the site is located but the antenna is pointing across the lake, and the far shore is a few miles away. Awesome....oops, just as I wrote awesome we heard a bang on the ceiling. The antenna had fallen on the roof. The suction cups had given up. No Prob...back in action after a bit of spit and remounting the cups.
We were able to make a Skype call to Laura and Bill, mainly to ask her to look for my missing Senior card, among other things. As a bonus we were able to give birthday greetings to Bill's mom Barb.
While at Don's in Indiana, one maintenance item was trying to fix a draft that hits the driver's lower legs. We used the small compressor we have onboard to shoot air around the firewall area. We found a few areas and filled the gaps with spray-in expanding foam. But it was all for not, as the same draft is still there. Tomorrow we will try another area. Sooner or later we will get this annoying cold draft gone.
The next leg of the odyssey will be to southwestern Texas, location unknown at this time. Tune in later for the next episode.
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