29 September 2024 Birthday get together

 Cynthia and Felix were in Dallas to go to the SMU game, so we conspired together to drive over to Donny and Diane’s Sunday Morning with donuts to surprise Diane for her 80^th Birthday (and David’s 65^th). We spent several hours visiting. Everyone looked good and are doing well. After tiring them out with family gossip, we joined Cynthia and Felix for an early dinner at Mi Cocina’s before they headed back to the Woodlands and we headed home to Alvarado. Unfortunately, we forgot to take any pictures.

28 September 2024 Wichita Falls to Alvarado TX.

 As we expected, the traffic through downtown Fort Worth was crazy, even in the early afternoon. The 153 mile drive from Wichita Falls was uneventful. We decided to try a different RV Park this time to try and avoid some of the horrible traffic due to construction at I-20/I-820/US287 intersection. So we are staying at the Texas RV Ranch ($853 monthly rate including $200 electric charge ($28.44 per day)) on US67 in Alvarado. It’s about the same distance out of town as the Texan RV Ranch we normally stay at but has a more direct route into Fort Worth on I-35 or into Dallas on US67. We were placed in the older section of the park (There is a large new area further back from US67 that is really nice) in a pull through. The site is plenty long, all the hook ups work well, but the landscaping has been completely taken over by weeds that have not been mowed in a while. We also are having issues getting the WiFi to work. They have a pond, but it is not being aeriated so it stinks. It will work for a month, but we will probably not stay here again. 

Our site at the Texas RV Park

27 September 2024 Amarillo to Wichita Falls TX.

 When we were planning our route back to DFW, we decided to break up the drive from Amarillo to DFW. At 365 miles, it’s a really long day and the scenery along US287 is pretty boring on this stretch. At 246 miles, Wichita Falls seemed like a good stopping point. We stayed at the Wichita Falls TV Park ($54 per night with GSC) for one night. This is by far the most dog friendly RV park we have been to. They had a really nice leashed dog walking area with sculptures and simulated fire hydrants for the fur babies to enjoy. They also had a really nice fenced in dog park to let the dogs off leash to run around. The dog park had nice lush grass to be easy on the paws. We did not feel like cooking, se we picked up a great pizza and salads from Mia’s Italian Bistro near the RV Park.  

Our site in Wichita Falls RV Park

Keira in the leash dog park

The off leash dog park