Archive for December 2nd, 2009

Hi, We left Coushatta Casino this morning around 8:30 this morning and drove into Texas! Now, as big as Texas is, we are going to be somewhere in Texas for the next couple of days. And I know in some parts of west Texas, I get no internet signal or cell phone signal. I’ve experienced this last winter.

And I’m watching the weather now, the weather don’t look good at all. Snow is heading our way – at least one inch of snow…..who knows where we will be perched by then…..

Today, we parked a little early because it is super windy out and the direction of the wind is right at us head on. So, at this rate, we will be fueling up every day unless that wind dies down a little.

So, where are we now? We are about 70 miles or so east of San Antonio in a little town called Flatonia. And our adventure side came alive and we decided to park for the evening at a campground on the side of I-10. We’ve been adventurous before, but I don’t think we’ve been this adventurous. Well, we saw the sign to Flatonia RV Ranch…..well, we actually saw the RV park from the highway and we saw some RVs parked so we decided….why not park there tonight. We will try it. Oh, they have a website to this park http://www.flatoniarvranch.com/. So we checked in at the office and was told for 28 dollars, we could pick our own site. How nice of them…AND, there is Wi-Fi here and that’s what counts! And Wi-Fi means I’m here to bug you again! So, let me show you some pictures that I took today……

They shut down I-10 today for an unknown reason….I really didn’t see anything exciting or why they shut a major highway down…..but they diverted us off the highway on one exit and we went up the next exit ramp to get back on the same highway again…..

Alot of highways around us….neat!

Here’s the check in office at where we are staying tonight…..

Some pictures of the RV park that we are staying at tonight…..

So that was our day today….pretty uneventful…..I’m enjoying my hot tea and the heater right next to my feet since it’s freezing out right now and I keeping looking at the weather channel now….and it just don’t look good at all……might have to come up with a change of plans….HA! We don’t have any!!! LOL! Okay, I’m done. Have a great night and talk tomorrow!

Hi! I’m blogging from my Blackberry tonight (not by choice), but I am happy to be getting a blog post out today. There is one thing that I can think of right now that makes time slip away….being inside a casino….we entered the casino at around 3pm today and couldn’t believe where the time went when it was 8pm and we were still in the casino. Glad I remembered to feed Jake before we left for the casino! Ha – we always leave food out for him anyways….

Let me back up a bit here. Last night we stayed over night at Hollywood casino in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi and tonight we are staying over night at Coushatta Casino in Kinder, Louisiana. The distance between these two casinos isn’t much – about 300 miles, and I don’t even think it’s that much, maybe a little less. So you might think we didn’t get that far or we didn’t travel long, but it wasn’t an easy day of traveling.

The coast here seems to be getting a rain storm that won’t let up. Heavy rain and slow speed leads to a long and expensive day. Expensive because accomodating the rain was heavy winds which took a bite out of our fuel mileage. So, I’m happy we only went as far as we did. And since we don’t have a set schedule at all, we will let the weather do its thing and we will just stay out of the way.

After this current rain storm moves on, I can see from the radar that there is another one moving in eastbound from Houston. Today’s temperature sat around 46 degrees all day and right now at 10pm I can still hear the rain on the roof of the RV.

But all is good here and we are very comfortable. (Hey, it could be all snow, so I won’t complain.) We have a casino in the parking lot next door to this RV park (of course! Ha!) and sure enough a little shuttle bus transports us back and forth to the casino. I love it! I think I’ve found my new job! I think I want to try driving the shuttle bus here and carting all the gamblers to and from the casino. Many benefits to that job….No traffic! I wouldn’t have to leave the property to go play in the streets! I can put a tip jar out for all those lucky people who hit a jackpot. Such a nice and easy job meeting all kinds of people, I’ll take either that job or the one that spins the little white balls in the Keno machine…..anyways….

So, we tried our luck at the casino here to no avail…we all lost a little bit of money and then stopped at the bakery inside the casino and I bought an apple danish to bring back to the RV so I could wallow in my loss of money with my danish. Jake wanted some, but I don’t think so little pal, supper time for you!

I watched a little bit of TV, listened to Obama and his big plans for our 30,000 troops, watched the radar weather channel, and here I am ready for bed.

Now, real quick, this casino is 23 miles north of I-10 off Exit 44 and there are plenty of billboard signs to lead the way, so yes, I would recommend this RV park and casino if you are passing thru….if you want more info on this place or have a question, email me at dpjake11002@aol.com.

It made my day today to see I have over 10 comments on my blog so far. Comments just absolutely make my day, so don’t be shy to leave one, two, or a few comments – or one a day!

I’m tired, so have a great night and I’ll be back tomorrow