Here we are again

Well we managed to find our way a little further south in an effort to escape colder temps.  We are at Surfside Beach with our traveling friends, David and Sophie.  Our trip here was somewhat uneventful, except for the following:

In an attempt to pass time by eating lunch before traversing Houston traffic we wanted to find a place to pull over and have a sandwich or buy lunch.  Never before in the history of man has this been more difficult than this trip.  After a couple of different stops to try out large parking areas (usually a WalMart) and not being successful to find an area large enough to accommodate one rig pulling a vehicle, much less 2 rigs at the same location, we moved on down the road to a Cracker Barrel only to discover the only one in North America without a designated RV parking area.  In fact, the closest parking was approximately 1/4 mile away so we decided to 'hoof it' to the restaurant.  Now in an effort to park the rigs around the previously mentioned WalMarts we had to do quite a bit of maneuvering to extricate ourselves from some pretty tight spots.  There were a number of U-turns, tight turns and crossing heavy traffic to go the desired direction.  All of these done in our 45 foot long times 2 rig caravan in very heavy traffic.  We could not decide what was up with WalMart as the parking lots of the two attempted parking areas were completely loaded with customers' cars.  Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, we think?

The next hiccup occurred on the freeway just south of downtown Houston.  I will spare the 'gory' details but there was a recently killed dog in the roadway that did not pass between my wheels cleanly and then was rolled over in front of David who thought he had possibly managed to miss it but due to the action of my jacks underneath the rig moved the carcass directly into his path.  Both of us have a small cleaning job on our towed vehicles before using them.  We can only hope the rain today washes away most of the heavy duty mess.

Regardless of those things, we are here and settled in for the night and looking forward to new adventures that await us.