Day One and Two of Roaming the Range

Friday, January 22, was our first day on the road. The RV was parked at a Walmart where Pop who is my mom's dad stayed the night in the RV while the rest of us went to their house and slept. We took off at about 6 o'clock in the morning and made our first stop, Dunkin' Donuts!

 

We drove through a lot of snow, rain, and gunk. Pop drove the whole time, because my mom was too scared after seeing how much he had to fight with the wheel. 

Traveling in the RV is very cold especially if you sit by a window. One of the warmest places was in a rest area in Mississippi. Check out the cool mosaic!

A true Mississippian, Kris Savell, taught me how to say Mississippi correctly. When you are with people who are not familiar with it you pronounce it Miss-a-sip-ee, but when you are with people who you know know what you are talking about you pronounce it Miss-Sippie. Strange on my part but she knows what she is talking about.

We stopped for the night in Mississippi at a place called Askew's Landing. It was a little nerve rattling at first, because there was a rocky, muddy, bumpy dirt road and on either side a lake. The road was really tiny too. It had only enough room for one RV or camper at a time. Nevertheless, we got a spot and began to settle down for the night. We were a little worried at first, because the owner, who kinda looked like Dolly Parton, thought they were supposed to get one and a half inches of snow. We finished getting everything set up for the night and clearing out our bunks, so we could actually sleep in them.

Saturday, January 23, we left the campground at six o'clock, and we were relieved that there was no snow on the ground. Within thirty minutes we crossed the Mississippi River while I was sleeping or so I was told. Our first stop of the day was made at a massive Texas rest stop. There had to be at least a million brochures all organized by the different geographical sections of Texas. We grabbed a lot of them before getting back on the road, but first let me take a selfie, with the selfie stick!

I noticed that in Texas they like to put "Don't mess with Texas" everywhere from plastic bags to trash cans. Oh the things I've learned on the range.

After that we drove a long, long time, and while we were driving I saw my first Texas Longhorn, my first beavertail cactus, and a castle (actually I don't know what it was, but it had towers and parapets). We stopped at a place called Buck Creek RV Park. The road was not as bad as the first night but still bumpy, rocky and dirt. That was our first two days of living in R'ome!