Texas Back Roads

Dickinson TX to Corpus Christi TX -  235 miles

Day 13

Oh mama, it got chilly during the night!  And I slept like crap. 

First it was a dog, a dog who barked in a three/two rhythm (yapyapyap...yapyap!) for a long, long time...until HE got tired and fell asleep.  Then I was cold, covered up and got hot, cold, hot, cold...uh, I'm of a certain age, you know.  Next leg cramps, a potty trip, Jim's snoring, my joints aching, his potty trip...and finally, finally when I fell into a nice sleep I wake to the beep, beep, beep of a garbage truck emptying a dumpster.  I tell ya, we find a nice RV place, not too close to the highway, NO railroad tracks or airports, in a nice residential area and the damn DOG in the nice, residential area keeps me awake!

 Sometimes, you just can't win.

We needed to get up a little earlier than usual anyway because we had a fairly long drive today.  The Bay Colony RV Park has a car/RV wash on the property.  Poor RV was dusty and coated with a heavy layer of pollen.  Jim washed while I took the dogs out one at a time to, uh....'do their business'.  Seeing that the management  takes such good care of their surroundings at the park, I took a trash bag and as I walked the dogs I picked up any pieces of trash that had blown onto the lawn from the car wash and street.  Did my good deed for the day.

Re-hooked the Jeep up and we headed to Corpus.  We stayed mostly on Rt35, sometimes four lanes divided and others a two lane road.  For the most part it was a good highway.  Traveling the back roads, we see a little bit of everything.  Today we saw fabulous homes, horse ranches, cattle ranches, enormous farms, several bays on the gulf and plenty of unbelievable poverty for a country such as this. 

Fortunately, we got through Corpus Christi just before the Friday afternoon rush hour got bad.  Good thing, we both were tired.  We are on the bay, just across from Padre Island.  Tonight has been cool and very windy.  Tomorrow should be nice, but they are expecting serious rain on Sunday. 


With that in mind, we may drive an hour southwest and visit the famous (and larger than Rhode Island) King Ranch.