Wednesday early AM, 27SEP, finish hooking up toad to RV and on the road to Houma, LA. Heavy rain from our house to just past Snoqualmie Pass. Then I-82 and I-84 to Pendleton, OR, for a RV spot at Wild Horse Casino where we stayed couple of times in SEP/OCT 2020. Last part of I-82 from Yakima to OR was extremely windy; been awhile since we drove in conditions like that. Early dinner in the casino, very light games of chance, and back to RV.
Thursday AM, 28SEP, on the road and first stop is the Casino gas station for diesel. This is the first casino gas station we have encountered that gives no discount to casino card members (like us) and only discount people that have their gas station card (good nowhere else). Then on to I-84 east to Boise, ID, for lunch and diesel at a Maverik station. We have noticed for some time that Maverick is building/expanding thru-out the west. Their new and remodeled stations have a big convenience store with a selection of fresh prepared deli items; there is large, easy access to all fuel pumps for (in fact this one had diesel at every pump not just semi-truck islands). Then short drive to Glenns Ferry, ID, and Trail Break RV Park. After parking, first chore is adding DEF to RV fuel system.
Friday AM back on I-84 east to Heber City in Utah. To avoid Salt Lake City traffic north of SLC we go east and cross Wasatch mountains and travel south/down the “back” side of the Wasatch with very little traffic. Plus the road is very scenic and the Aspens are changing colors. Not as many colors or closely packed trees like NE; but the bright yellows, red/oranges & lime greens combined with the rock formations of the Wasatch should be on everyone’s must see list!
Saturday AM (last day of SEP) on the road to our next stop in Moab, UT. Approaching Shelter, UT, in narrow canyon our GPS said 0.6 miles to Shelter and then said we had arrived even tho no sign of town. So we took Main St exit and found what was basically a ghost town. Then used nav app on phone we find Maverik two miles past where gas buddy, gps, and google said it was, problem? – Gas buddy and google give the address based on old center of town which is almost a ghost town now but new station is really 2 miles further on main highway where all “new” business are built (dollar general & camping world RV dealer). But Dan did find a Muffler Man (they lurk everywhere:)
Turns out maverik is brand new and not in gps data bases. Then windy high desert drive to Moab and set up camp in same RV park from out Grand Circle Tour in SEP 2012. High winds preclude use of awnings.
The
Ryan RV Express: 29SEP-05OCT12 - Moab, UT (last 2 stops on the grand circle
tour)
Sunday AM (first day of OCT) on the road; long drive to Dancing Eagle Casino RV in Paraje, NM. Constant gusty winds from 25mph to 45mph. Start out in UT driving south to cut SW corner of Colorado, into NM and south. On to I40 east at Gallup and further east on I40 to our RV spot Paraje. After arrival we set-up camp and then head to market place grocery store; turns out casino, store, gas station and all other businesses on surrounding property are part of the Laguna Pueblo.
Monday no bad weather really even though forecasted, so we push thru to Amarillo, TX. Can see from interstate that Cadillac ranch & muffler man are still there. See below link our BLOG/pics about our visit and run-in with Anthony Bourdain. Have tornado watch thru night.
The
Ryan RV Express: 31MAY/01JUN08 - Amarillo, TX
Tuesday, 03OCT, experience no bad weather last night and hit the road early to make one long drive to visit Dan’s sister Sharon and husband Tim now living in Cleburne, TX. No problems on drive other than two phone GPS’s and RV GPS could not find RV park. After setting up camp head to Sharon & Tim’s house for reminiscing and lite dinner before calling it an earlier night.
Wednesday mid AM Sharon & Tim arrive to take us to their daughter’s Julia house north of Fort Worth. Nice short visit and then all of us in two cars to the original stockyard area of Fort Worth for lunch at Joe T Garcia’s Fort Worth institution since 1935. Then back to our homes/RV to nap. Possible severe weather tonight. Watch TV news into night as possible tornado weather passes north of us with damaging winds to areas south of Fort Worth. We are not sure how someone gets the full picture looking at weather app on small screen cell phone and only having streaming service on home TV?
Joe T. Garcia's
(joetgarcias.com)
Thursday late morning head back over to Sharon & Tim’s for reminiscing and home cooked dinner. Around lunch time niece Julia shows up and serious story telling commences (no lies were told). Lets just say Julia got some family history/stories that weren’t mentioned growing up😊. Great day with family, back to the RV.
Friday morning we head to Sharon & Tim’s for a driving tour of the surrounding area. Very scenic country side very similar to what we remember from the Hill Country of TX. Turns out this area of TX is known for petrified wood deposits and being dinosaur capital of TX. First stop for photo ops was an abandoned gas station/store known as the Outlaw Station. Run down now but the beauty of the petrified wood construction still evident. Supposedly back in the day there was a back room speak easy & was supposedly used by Bonnie & Clyde.
The ruins of Outlaw
Station stand as a reminder of Prohibition in ‘Petrified City’ - Roadtrippers
Then off to the Creation Evidence Museum for some interesting dinosaur facts. Final stop was Riverhouse Grill for excellent lunch. Then back to their house for a little rest and on to RV to prep for tomorrow’s departure.
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