Awake: 6:20am sleep 6+41 clear overnight @ Sulphur, Louisiana.
Our complimentary breakfast this morning consisted of: hot sausage,
scrambled eggs, boiled egg & cereal of oatmeal with raisin bran + yogurt;
quite adequate & tasty. That’s more like a breakfast should be &
therefore, this is “the best” hotel we have stayed in since the Holiday
Inn Express. It wasn’t just the breakfast, the hotel and room were clean
and the room more spacious with a few extras like frig and Micro and
in-room coffee maker; toiletries and hair dryer. Guess you get what you
pay for!
I have to back up a little & mention my slight miscalculation of
yesterday’s travel after leaving Birmingham, Alabama. We’ve been following
our Lady Garmin’s shortest/easiest travel plan return to our motorhome in
Aransas Pass, TX. The interstate routing she suggested is a diagonal to
the southwest & so far, we have basically followed that principle until
mid afternoon yesterday. Coming southwest from Birmingham on I-59 & I-20,
I convinced Kathy that we should go west on I-20 through Mississippi &
then continue to Monroe, Louisiana; then take US 165 south to I-10. My
reasoning @ the time was brilliant, simply because I-10 East of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana is very rough with some construction & we could avoid a
hundred miles or more of that sort of thing.
Well, I failed miserably; US 165 was 50% (4) lane divided hwy with new
asphalt; the other 50% had construction squeezing down to a single lane,
and small towns with traffic signals (usually red) slowing our progress &
rough roads to boot. And….. thus, the late arrival into Sulphur,
Louisiana.
We leave the Hotel Wingate @ 9:00am. I-10 from Sulphur to the Texas border
west, construction delays & rough roads continued. From that point & all
the way to Aransas Pass, smooth roads prevailed. One fuel stop @ Baytown,
TX., paying $2.06 per gallon.
Arrive @ the Ransom Road RV Park @ 3:32pm.
It takes us about 45 min to unload our things into the motorhome & maybe 3
hrs more to organize, go through some of our mail & talk with some people
we know in the park. It feels good to be back to our home-on-wheels again.
The nearby neighbor, Mike, tells me they have had a lot of rain during our
absence. The motorhome looks good, inside & out. The only glitch we found
was a slight damp spot on Kathy’s closet floor. Darn skylight!
7:45 dinner: Italian beef sandwiches.
After the dishes are clean & put away, we continue to read some of our mail.
Lights out: 11:02pm
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