moving right along...

It sure feels good to be moving again!

After pulling out of Larry and Carols, we had nearly a week to get to San Antonio. Since we couldn't think of anything that we really wanted to do on the way there, we decided to just get there. We left Phoenix (south of) on Friday, hitting the Costco in Tucson on our way through to restock groceries. We spent Friday night at the Walmart in Deming, NM with a few other rvs.

Saturday found us driving into...

Yeah!

El Paso is quite a unique experience - the highway takes you along the US/Mexico border for a short time. The difference between the 2 sides of the border is striking. In the photo, you can see the border fence in the bottom part of the picture, and all the buildings are on the Mexican side. There are border patrol vehicles that just sit parked along the fence.watching...

Our goal for the night was Fort Stockton. There is not a whole lot of anything between El Paso and Fort Stockton, so we pulled into a rest area for a restroom break, to stretch our legs, and to make and eat lunch...

It was evening before we pulled in to Fort Stockton. Last year we had driven from Phoenix to Fort Stockton in one very long day. We took 2 days to do it this year, but it was still a long haul for us!

Sunday morning we were the last of the RVs to leave the Walmart parking lot - we awoke to a flat tire on the 5er. Since it was Sunday, there was nowhere to get it fixed, so the guys put the spare on.

Traveling with kids means lots of stops at rest areas to feed Caleb, take potty breaks, get drinks (refill water bottles), snacks (Strawberry ice cream? Oreos in this case), stretching legs and physical exercise...

Sunday we hit the road again, but with a minor change of plans. Our initial destination was San Antonio, and we were going to go straight there, but some other fulltime RVers were nearby in San Angelo, so we detoured up a bit to meet them. On the way, we pulled off the road in a little cowboy town to make lunch. Everyone pitches in when it comes to the kitchen...

(well, except the little girls who were outside throwing rocks into mud puddles!)

We are getting into that lovely Texas Hill Country!!!

Sunday evening we met Kent and Dana Butterfield in San Angelo (Walmart ;)

They used to travel with up to 5 of their kids, but kids have a tendency to grow up, and this is the first year that they are traveling kidless. The rest of us nomads have adopted them as our children's on-the-road grandparents! It was fun for the kids to get a g & g fix - they totally doted on the littles! And we had a nice visit with them! We fed them fattening fried Walmart chicken (we were running really late after the whole flat tire thing), and they fed us fattening brownies (our fav dessert! :). We used their paper towels for napkins, and stole/kept them (oops!); we think of them every time we use their paper towels! LOL!

We had such a nice visit with them, and hope to see them on the road again next year!

Monday we had planned to visit the fort that is in San Angelo, but the wind was howling, so we just hit the road. And drove through little cowboy towns on the minor roads that wind through the Hill Country.

And pulled into the Medina Lake Thousand Trails RV Park.

There isn't much to Medina Lake these days...

It's actually a man-made reservoir for the farmers to pull water from in time of need.

With a drought the last 2 years, there has been a time of need, and Medina Lake is currently more like Medina Creek.

They have several playgrounds, which made the littles quite happy with the park...

And they had a great activity center. We checked out pickleball equipment (we only have one set) and mini golf clubs and balls.

The boys played basketball, and the kids just explored.

There were bins for recycling, so we were able to drop off the 3 bags of soda cans that I had been dragging around to recycle. Made my hubby very happy to get rid of those! LOL!

Medina Lake TT is known for it's wildlife.

The kids loved the ducks that would come and beg for a handout...

The deer weren't quite so bold, but if Molly would have had a handful of corn, she probably could have fed these two (it's doubtless she could contain her excitement and hold still tho!)...

The kids begged some bread from the kitchen (since we didn't have a 100# bag of corn in the back of our suv like the neighbor)...

We had a nice neighbor that saw that we had kids (could he help it??), and he would come over in the mornings and scatter corn around our site so that the kids could see the deer close up.

They are pretty tame...

The does will come in for bread, but it's not good enough for the bucks. LOL!

We spent 2 incredibly peacefull nights at Medina Lake before we moved into San Antonio.

It was a lovely park. Since we were there on Monday and Tuesday, not many activities were going on. That was fine by us since we like to explore, and the kids were busy with the sports courts that they offered. We were busy at the park while we were there, and never did get to Fredricksburg or Kerrville this year.

We pulled out of Medina Lake on Wednesday, and moved in to a RV resort in San Antonio. We have been so busy this past week, that we all feel like Caleb looks. Tired.

But glad to be in San Antonio, glad to be able to do some special activities here, and glad to be together. :)