Heading South from Kansas

After four days of steady winds it finally calmed enough and so we headed south. Our next goal was Livingston, Texas but we took two days as we don’t drive as far as we when we were younger. Before we left, we had to dump the holding tanks and it was a weird turn into the dump station.

Running over a curb, I hadn’t done that in quite a while, we emptied the tanks and headed for a one-night stay in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Arriving I tried to unhook from the hitch and the hitch wouldn’t release. It took me a bit, but we finally unhooked only to find that the truck hitch had cracked.

There happened to be a repair man in the park and he urged me to buy a new hitch. I called a local auto parts store and they found just what we needed. It arrived the next day and so I sent my day assembling the new hitch, removing the old hitch, and installing the new one. It was rated higher than the old hitch and now we should be good for another twelve years, (longer then we plan on pulling trailers across country).

The next day we drove another three hundred miles and arrived at Livingston, Texas. We spent the next five days here mostly resting from the long trip. We have our mail forwarded from the Escapee Park and so we were able to walk over and pick up our mail. Among the mail we had two envelopes with our absentee ballots and we filled them out, mailing them the next day.

It also gave us the time to renew our prescriptions, eat out at a couple of catfish places, and get money for our time in Louisiana. The next leg of our trip was to our favorite rv park, Betty’s in Abbeville, Louisiana. Betty, as always was her usual warm self, and she also told us about her cruise!

The park was almost empty, but the happy hour was still at four thirty and we met the other two couples that were camping there, (usually Betty's park is packed full, but she had just opened). We only stayed one night but we went out to a restaurant called Dupree’s where Renita had the crab cakes and I had the best yellowfin tuna! It was cooked rare and is the only way to eat tuna!

The last leg of our trip was a short but rough drive to Grand isle Louisiana. There we met our friends Terry and Evelyne. Our plan was to spend seven nights there and concentrate on fishing> Now if the weather would just calm down and no new hurricanes form, we an relax and have fun…………Clear skies