May 21, 2013 - Amarillo, ...le Texas

Après les événements de Oklahoma City et le temps encore incertain dans ce secteur, nous avons roulé directement sur Amarillo. D'ailleurs, quand nous avons passé à l'ouest de Oklahoma City, sous avons pu constater le long de la route l'ampleur de la dévastation....sur quelques centaines de pieds, les arbres matures étaient tous brisés et il y avait énormément de débris partout le long de la route...comme dans les films...assez impressionnant. Amarillo...hé oui, nous sommes au Texas, le pays de Lone Ranger et Tonto...:-)...pour d'autres,...

May 21, 2013 - May 21, 2013 – Aubrey, Texas

May 21, 2013 – Aubrey, Texas I was going to meet Helen for lunch today in Irving, but the weather put a kibosh on that. It is all the way across Dallas from here, and I didn’t want to be driving in hard rain and possibly hail or even a tornado. It began to rain about 1:30 and rained hard until about 4:30 p.m. We were under a severe thunderstorm warning all afternoon and a tornado watch until 7 p.m. Fortunately, there was no hail and no tornado. I’ve spent the day working on my posts, editing pictures and uploading both. I am caught up now...

May 21, 2013 - Palo Duro Canyon to Wichita Falls (Texas)

We awoke to a very dark sky this morning . We were headed out of Palo Duro Canyon at 8:00. Aren't you all (not ya'll) surprised at how early I've been getting up on this trip??!! We wanted to get packed up and on the road before it started raining. I had 2 messages on my cell and I just knew they were from Mom and Ingrid, and yes they were. They were both very concerned about us because of the tornadoes. I called them both back to assure then we were OK. Wichita Falls was SE of where we were and the sky looked much better in that direction...

May 20, 2013 - Amarillo to Palo Duro Canyon (Texas)

At 8:30 this morning we were on the road back west to see Cadillac Ranch again. There are 10 cadillacs stuck in the ground, nose down. It was a place I wanted to see since I had posted pictures of it on Jeana's website. (www.stepstomarrow.com) It was really, really winday agian today!! We took a couple of pictures and headed to Palo Duro Canyon, the second largest canyon in the US. (guess which one is the largest!) In fact it is called the "Grand Canyon of Texas". It is also the 2nd largest state park in Texas. With the tornadoes that were...

May 20, 2013 - May 20, 2013 – Plano, Texas

May 20, 2013 – Plano, Texas Today I watched Let’s Make a Deal before I attempted to set out to do some chores. However, before I got out the door, I got a call from a cousin, Wilma. She and her husband are planning their 60th wedding anniversary celebration, and she wanted to know if it would be possible for me to attend a party in Missouri this summer. Since her wedding was the 1st one I ever attended, I readily agreed to be there. I remember being really impressed by all her attendants. We visited for a while before I left to do my...

May 20, 2013 - Return to Austin

This morning I waited in vain until about 10:00 o’clock for Nick to return my call. Then I went inside to the service counter to talk to him eyeball to eyeball but, alas, he wasn’t at work today! The man sitting at his desk checked my order and informed me that it had been placed Friday afternoon but that it would take about a week for the new refrigerator to arrive. He said that Nick had called all around the area (how big an area??) and that the only place he could find what I needed was from the Dometic distribution center in Elkhart,...

May 20, 2013 - well our bags are packed . sort of ..

so we have spent the last 2 days packing .. correction, Marie has spent the last 2 days packing, I tend to panic more as the day gets closer when we will be leaving .. in approximately 10 hours and yes there is still one suitcase open and a few .. ok quire a few things left to pack.. but I fear not, I know we will be good to go, despite my efforts to help I have been shushed and told to sit back relax and don't worry , translates to stay out of my way I know what i'm doing .. so i wait and offer any help that i may be summoned to do.....

May 19, 2013 - May 19, 2013 – Dallas, Texas

May 19, 2013 – Dallas, Texas Today was museum day. The 1st museum was the Nasher Sculpture Center. The collection is a work of love by Raymond and Patsy Nasher who began collecting art in the 1950s. In the late 1960s they began collecting large scale modern and contemporary sculpture. Patsy was the one who identified the sculpture. According to Raymond she had a natural genius for distinguishing between excellent, good, mediocre and poor works of art. Raymond was a businessman and understood the art of the deal. He was one of the 1st real...

May 19, 2013 - Fairfield, Texas

We have enjoyed our time in this "back to nature" park in the boonies. :-) We were surprised how far in the woods it was when we arrived, when we got to the gate it was another 5 mile drive into the woods to the campground. We saw wild hogs on the way, 8 huge ones and two babies in the road. After asking one of the rangers about them, we were told they might have been Javelinas. I wish I had time to take pictures, I was too shocked to think of the camera. :-) We drove to the tiny town of Fairfield today and did a bit of exploring, then...

May 19, 2013 - To Crestview RV, Georgetown

This morning I gathered my foods from the various pals’ refrigerators. Most of it fit into the cooler that Mikail lent me and Donette took the rest – just things that I rarely use. Such nice friends I have! Before leaving Lampasas, I did a little hand wash. There was no hurry because it is less than an hour’s drive to Georgetown. I arrived at Crestview RV Center around 11:30. The business doesn’t open on Sundays until 1:00 so I had plenty of time to eat a little lunch and read an old issue of “Texas Highways” travel magazine. Nick had told...

May 19, 2013 - Small world

5/19/2013 Sunday Arlington, TX to Caddo Mills, TX 70 miles Dallas NE Campground This morning we did the usual preparation for travel and when we were almost ready to leave Ron went to the office to pay the electric bill. I was finishing up everything and realized Ron had been gone for a very long time and that he did not have his phone with him. At just about the time I was worried enough to call the office Ron returned. His delay was due to meeting a man in the office that he had worked with at the police department in the 1980’s. The...

May 19, 2013 - Travel Day

BEGINNING MILEAGE 42451 After listening to a final weather report this morning we decided we need to head West towards New Mexico and Arizona instead of North through Oklahoma and Kansas, weather was showing big storms with possible tornados and hail and one night of Tornado warnings was enough for me not to mention Hail. We got on the road at 8:30 it was 77 degrees and very windy started off on I-35 back to Hwy 82 and traveled that to Hwy 287 and turned onto Hwy 218. We saw what looked like sand tornados off in the distance, alot of the...