Friday, February 26, 2016

Mon Feb 22- Mon Feb 29 2016 NOTL - San Antonio

Mon Feb 22-Fri Feb 29 2016 NOTL - San Antonio


Monday Feb 22
Set off at 9.30 am in truck to go get the rig. Missed Nexus lane at the border but got through quite quickly anyway. Good day to drive, clear and not too cold. Got down to Elizabethtown, KY. (approx 1000km drive) We had stayed at this hotel (Winfield Inn and Suites) before and room was fine and economical. We were both pretty exhausted from the long drive and hot the hay after a quick snack on cream cheese and crackers.
SUNSET DRIVING THROUGH CINCINNATI
Tuesday Feb 23
Set off in the morning and progressed well. Coolish day but cloudy and bright. Got through Nashville and arrived at Muscle Shoals, Alabama at about 2pm. Had a wander around the Muscle Shoals studio, while under complete renovation makeover. Only a small four room affair but lots of history and it had a cool vibe being the room where so names have strutted their stuff. Had to buy the Tee shirt. Then a mile down the road to the Fame studio. Decided not to wait around for the tour. Again nice to be in the building but that’ll do it. Off to Tupelo.  Had problems with the temperature gauge on the way down (overheating etc)



MUSCLE SHOALS STUDIO DOOR

JANICE MAKING HER MARK ON THE POSTER

GREAT PIECE OF ROCK HISTORY

LOBBY AT FAME STUDIOS MUSCLE SHOALS


Arrived about 5.30 at the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in pouring rain Decided to go out for a bite to eat at Blue Canoe…best tripadvisor rating. Wow what bad service…ignored as we sat at the bar for 15 minutes…we left in disgust and posted a review!!! By now the rain was torrential. So we got hot fried Chicken at Walmart and went back to our room and watched CNN republican debate and feasted!!

Wednesday Feb 24
Derek took the truck in to a dealer first thing in the morning and the guy found the problem immediately and fixed it… thrilled (just a wire rubbing on something… no mechanical issues thank goodness.) He came back to the hotel and we checked out and hoofed off to see Elvis birthplace. Had a look around and read all the posters. Then we stopped at Helen Keller’s childhood home (small plantation) also in Tupelo. It was a big surprise and hugely interesting as it still has the family furniture and belongings in it. Off to Montgomery. Got to the rig about 2.30 and loaded up, transferred bikes and set off at about 4pm. Relieved that all seems well, no issues that we could see. Only went 18 mile south to the Montgomery South RV Park. It  looked disappointing from highway, but it is operated by a father / son team who were as friendly as could be. I went down the highway to track down some wine at the local “liquor” store…feeling very proud I’d found it, returned to find out that it was off…not a little way off…but a long way off!!! Lol… too far and too tired to return it.



Thursday Feb 25
The rig was fine overnight, all fluids OK and all systems go. Set off on a sunny day for Baton Rouge.  to the KOA on the west side. A very good park, one of the best KOA’s we have stayed at. Derek went out to buy a few supplies (and a good bottle of wine this time)  and we settled in for an early night.
Friday Feb 26
Originally headed just for Beaumont, Texas except we realized that the RV park we were planning on stopping the night at was a Class A motorhomes only park. So being of a lower class, we traveled on a little bit further west past Houston. We stayed at Houston West RV Park, and were surprised how good it was compared to the reviews. This leaves us just a three hour drive to San Antonio. We arrived early enough to make dinner and relax.

Saturday Feb 27

Arrived at Alsatian RV about 1pm. Initially a little disappointed. It is a long way outside of San Antonio, was very quiet, washrooms and laundry are small. Easy drive thru spot for these first few days so got set up quite quickly. Very sunny and no trees for this site. We went down to the Alsace hotel which was opening their new restaurant and had free appy’s and beer and Margarita. Now that’s the way to welcome us to south Texas. We checked out Di and Bern’s room and emailed them to say the accommodations were just fine. Did a bit of grocery shopping and after dinner went to the resorts bar restaurant, a duo were playing and the atmosphere was a bit better.  So we feel a bit better about the place and we are sure we will have fun anyway.
Sunday Feb 28
Unpacked boxes and tried to organize the rig and set up for the next little while.
Monday Feb 29
We went into Lytle  (town about 14 miles West of Castroville) to check out the HEB grocery store there. It was a long drive just for groceries so we plan on checking out the closer but smaller HEB in Hondo next time.


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