Tuesday, September 10, 2024
It's going to be hard to write about this trip. It was long anticipated and should have been very exciting, but there are some unmentionable annoyances causing me to be alternately anxious and despairing. It's nothing that anyone else in the world would consider the slightest bit important, so I won't describe it here--you'd think I was an idiot. But I fully expect it to overshadow the whole trip.
So we got a very early start for a rather long drive (5 hours 12 minutes on Google) to Longhorn RV park in Alanreed, TX. We made decent time and got in fairly early. The lady running the place wasn't there, the office was locked and I couldn't get hold of her on the phone. But eventually she came out of her house and checked us in.
It turns out that AT&T has very little/poor service out there, so my phone kept dropping the connection. Her Verizon phone worked fine. Starlink worked, of course, no obstructions as far as the eye could see.
I don't think there was a dog exercise yard, so Molly got lots of walks around and around the RV parking lot. No stickers that I recall. Molly's human spent her time staring off into the flat distance. Time well spent.
Basic, inexpensive RV park in an overgrazed short-grass prairie
Longhorn RV Park, site 11, $30 cash
Gravel surface; very open and windy. There was a county burn ban going on, but we were allowed to use our little charcoal grill cautiously, with a hose close at hand, to make steak and fish.
Very few trees and would be hot in the summer. Saw a horny toad in the field next to our site. Lost of big red ants for him to eat. Horses you can pet. No birds.
Convenient location to I-40. The owner was very nice but the office was locked and I couldn't get hold of her on the phone. It turns out that AT&T has very little/poor service out there, but her Verizon phone worked fine. Starlink worked, of course--no obstructions.
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