The view of the dunes and beach from our bedroom window. Very tough to take :) But you can only stay 14 days at a time and then you have to be gone for 48 hours before you can come back again. We pretty much had our 14 days in and the weather forecast was for snarly weather for tomorrow (packing in mist and rain isn't any fun), so.......
We are on our way again.. headed toward Arizona.. But we only got as far as Pleasanton, Texas. Actually, we are about 30 miles south of San Antonio. We left Malaquite Beach Campground this morning and spent two hours washing and rinsing the salt spray off the travel trailer and truck. We found the S-L-O-W-E-S-T McDonald's ever. But the food tasted good. Then we hit I-37 and will hook up with I-10 at San Antonio. We are thinking about taking in the Alamo tomorrow, IF there's a place to park the RV.
We're in the Pleasanton, Texas Wal-mart parking lot. We always call ahead and they gladly gave us permission to park. The generator is going so we have TV and some of the creature comforts that electricity brings. We're also giving the batteries a good charge. Looking at the weather channel on TV, it looks like we might have some mist tomorrow. It doesn't matter. It'll be a good day.
I might have confused some folk about where we have been camping. Corpus Christi is the closest city to North Padre Island. When we leave the island, we are in Corpus Christi. North Padre Island is a barrier island that is over 60 miles long. Once we cross the bridge from Corpus Christi to the Island, we have a 20 mile drive south to get to the campground.
Last Monday, while at Malaquite Beach Camp, we took the day and visited the USS Lexington Memorial. It's really awesome. The "Lex" (dubbed the "blue ghost" by "Tokyo Rose") has the longest service record of any U.S. Navy Carrier - forty years. She saw service in WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and then became a training carrier, training pilots out of Pensacola, Florida before her retirement to Corpus Christi. We shot some pictures:
The flight deck shot with aircraft in the background shot from where the catapults would have been.
Carriers have lots of guns.
One of the Navy's training planes. And one of my pilot buddies can help identify it. It's not a Stearman.
It flies almost as fast as our Lark 180.
The Lexington reportedly came here under her own power with her steam turbines.
It's time to publish the blog.. We looked outside a few minutes ago and parked in front of us is another RV with a Michigan license plate. I wonder where they are from? Ummm... Maybe we'll find out tomorrow. Tomorrow, another day of adventure.
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