Straight down the road

For most of this trip we have been on I-10. The speed limit is 80 and we are going 65. So everything is passing us. But we get to see  and take pictures. Plus we have seen many cars stopped by the Texas Hiway Patrol

. Guess 80 is just not fast enough on this long straight road. We also passed this huge wind farm, Desert Sky Wind Farm. I think the website said it had 160 units.

Highways

We traveled from Seguin to Ozona. What a small town! It is right off I-10. We had stopped here once before, but this time we stayed for the night. That was quite long enough. On the road again.

Seguin Part 2

We found all kinds of fun things to look at. Of course, my love of animals and Mr. Fixit's patience led to this:

Seguin

We stayed in Seguin one more day than we had anticipated. We always get our medicines on the road from Walmart. But for some reason they were out of both our medicines. We had to wait for them to restock. Even then, they didn't have what we needed and we had to go elsewhere and have prescriptions transferred. What a mess.

But being the seasoned travelers that we are, and being very flexible, we made the best of it.
Seguin is a small town whose only claim to fame that we can fine is that Juan Sequin was born here and is buried here. Juan was the messenger sent by Col Travis from the Alamo to Sam Houson to request more troops. He was not at the slaughter at the Alamo, but came back to bury the bodies and help those that did survive to escape. He laster became Mayor of San Antonio.

And then there was Fountain

Our second stop is in a small, little,tiny town called Fountain, FL. Mr. Fix It decided to be Mr. Cheap and booked us into this campground in the middle of nowhere for a minimum dollar amount. For it to be in No-where-ville, it is big. We stayed in the front part but there was at least an acre behind us with electricity and water sites and no one there. I don't know how he did it but we certainly did not pay the rates listed on their website.

The sites were average size and level, but the town only has a Dollar General Store and a Piggly Wiggly Express ( one half step up from a convenience store). We did a lot of five minute chores, read, and tried to get interested in Babylon 5.

We had to go to Panama City for his eye appointment. All went well and we travelled on.

Big Adventure

Today was the day! We have waited since the middle of November to start the Big Adventure. Each week something came up that delayed our trip. But finally we are out of Charleston.

We had to leave about two hours later than we had planned. We had a slight problem with the hitch...it didn't.

 So the whole camper landed its front weight on the tailgate of

Lt. Rosie (our Chevrolet 2500 pull mobile.)Thank God for Mr. FixIt! With a little physics and physical manpower we were able to lift the trailer and re-hitch. We did lose the tailgate,

but that is ok...We are on the road.

We drove to Jacksonville, flinching each time the hitch made a sound. We were afraid it would unhitch again although we knew it was well connected..I had visions of it passing us on I-10 but it didn't.

For a while we had been talking about staying in FamCamps, campgrounds sponsored by the military for retired military, military,  and DoD retirees. since Mr. Fixit at one time held a security clearance higher than most, we were pretty sure we could get on base with his ID but ya never know.We enjoyed our stay, got to play golf and go to St. Augustine.

The view from my front door:

 Cute little cars in St. Augustine to tour the city.

 Brother-in-law this is for you!

 Shady Campground. See Lt.Rosie?

Fun Day Part 2

What the %$#@ ?

This is called a work around. I cannot get to a second page or the rest of the page I was on.  It just stops. Blogspot what are you doing?

Anyway... my question to all you artsy people is how did they paint this pumpkin?

And this little guy

 After the garden railroad display for him, we went to

 I cannot describe how beautiful this Basilica is. It is breathtaking.

 It was also rather odd to see students praying in the church. Amazing. We were there at confession time and all the booths were filled. I quit trying to take pictures and just listened to our guide talk.