We pulled out of the driveway 1 day, and 2 hours later then planned. Lots of neighbors and friends sent us off with wonderful gift baskets, borrowed items, and kind words, honestly making us question why we were even leaving in the first place. But that's the great thing about good friends, they encourage you to seek your happiness, even when you will miss one another so much (Insert Fantastic Friends and Family's Names Here...you know who you are)!
So we waved goodbye to Nana, whom we'd miss so much, and headed out to our first planned destination....WALMART parking lot in Odessa, TX. Things were going pretty well as we hit the road. Mommy had packed several new toys and activities never before seen, and enough snacks to feed The Dugar family. We made it past a lot of cows and wild flowers before we even had to turn on the DVD player. Success! Our little Beana decided to go easy on us and took a 2 hour nap. Cool Rest stop. Gas Station. Gas Station. Gas Station. Damn this truck uses a lot of gas (12.2 mpg)! Baby wakes up. Loralai's movie ends. Mom now in the backseat. And I say, "Hey Joe, lets go to this cool state park I saw on this map instead of Walmart tonight. It's only 30 mins further down the road." He agrees. We get to the park. The park is called Monhana Sandhills SP. It was truly JUST sand hills. That's it. No trees. No park. JUST SAND. We took one look and both thought, "Who would come here???", and then I also thought, "SNAKES!!!" Rather then pay the $20 to say here, we being the wise and experienced RVers that we are (3rd trip now), decided we would drive back the 30 miles we had just come to the Odessa Walmart. We would actually end up staying at this Sandhills Park before the night was over, little did we know.
We go into Walmart, happy to finally be at our stopping point, to buy some stuff and find dinner. The place was PACKED!!! It was after 8pm on a week night. Every person there had at least 3 kids with them. Lines were 8+ baskets long. "Whatever, we have arrived. Lets get some food!" As we shop we start to notice that a lot of the other customers are shopping in their PJ's, and are under the age of 21, with 2 kids. As we wait for the better part of an hour in line, we also notice there are more face tattoos in this Walmart then Joe and I had ever seen in one place before. Then your mind starts to really search around. I saw what could be construed as gang attire and a baby with a shaved head (I'm not really sure what that means, but it worried me.). We make it back to the RV silently to find that we have no electricity from the RV batteries. We eat our food in the dark, and decide the Sandhills place didn't look so bad.
So we drive back down the direction we had just come for 30 miles. "60 extra miles total! I wonder how much in gas that cost me!" Thankfully the gates were open and there was an easy pull-through site. Parked at 10:30pm and in bed, both Joe and I thinking, "What have we done!?!?!".
We woke up feeling better. It's amazing how wonderful just having electricity can make you feel!!! The girls actually loved playing in the sand. And it was so soft! Later found out we could have checked out sand boards to slide down the hills on (Next time!).
Back on the road, we head to Roswell, NM. Trip goes well and we find our destination, Bottomless Lakes SP. And there is were we BE for the entire week.
Couple of notes...
I have not had to figure out the laundry thing yet. Yay!
Life still coming, bills to pay, calls to take, taxes to work on, emails to send. Trying to minimize.
NO TV!
Traveling is fun!
Traveling is scary!
Having kids 24/7 is Hard Work!
I really wish I hadn't forgotten the humidifier!...and the peanut butter!
Chapped face.
Kids getting dirty and I like it! REALLY DIRTY!!!
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