Yesterday we took a drive over to Fort Benning, GA near Columbus. Known as The Home of the Infantry, this is a huge installation and home of the Army’s Infantry and Armor Schools, elements of the 75th Ranger Regiment and the 3rd Brigade-3rd Infantry Division.
April 6, 2016
On Sunday we took a drive up northeast of Maxwell to Lake Martin to check out the Air Force’s Lake Martin Recreation Area but mainly just to get away from Montgomery for a day.
The Air Force has cabins, trailers, boats and other things for rent. Also, there is a campground but it is mainly for small RV’s or tenting. There are four or five sites that larger RV’s could use but you would really have to be careful driving into that area. I don’t see us ever taking our rig in there.
Monday we went to see the movie about Hank Williams, “I Saw The Light”. Although the hype about the movie was good we found it to be very slow moving and a little boring. Joyce says I’m not allowed to pick movies that we go see anymore.
We finally got our Honda CRV out of the shop yesterday and everything seems to be good. The shop sent it out on Monday to a local RV dealer for the towing system base plate installation. When the body shop got it back they noticed that the the bumper was installed a little crooked so they fixed that. They also sent it out to have the front end alignment checked to make sure that was good.
All-in-all we are very happy with Capital City Body Works. They did an outstanding job and got all the work done in a timely manner. When they were painting the new bumper they fixed the nicks and scratches on the hood at no charge to us. So if you are in need of body work in Montgomery, AL. we highly recommend Capital City.
We are going to spend today here at Maxwell and do the Hyundai cars plant tour and then tomorrow we are going to start the trip west. We will be driving a lot harder than we normally do but we still want to visit my family in Fresno, CA and Joyce’s in St. Helena. We also want to stop in Dallas, TX to visit dear friends.
April 10, 2016
We left Maxwell AFB on Thursday the 7th and started our trip west. The first stop was at the Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in Pelahatchie, MS. This very large park that caters to families in a big way with a huge water play area, a pool and mini-golf just to name a few of the amenities.
After spending one night there we hooked up the CRV headed toward the Elks Lodge in Shreveport, LA. stopping at a Chevron station for fuel on the way out to the interstate. Got diesel fuel for $1.80 a gallon making us very happy.
For those of you who have never driven I-20 through Mississippi and Louisiana, don’t do it unless it is absolutely necessary. Several times we had to slow down to 50 MPH because of the rough road and near Bossier City and on into Shreveport we even got down to 45 MPH. To say the highway is rough is an understatement.
We arrived at the Elks Lodge at about 2:30 PM where we got a parking site with 30 amp electric service for $15. The sites there are not big-rig friendly so we had to do some maneuvering to get parked. When I plugged in the electrical cord we couldn’t get any power with or without our surge protector. No problem, we just plugged into the post next door. One of the guys in the lodge came out and fixed the problem but he told us just to stay the way we were if case it failed again.
After getting situated we went into the lodge for a cold one or two. It was steak night so we ordered a huge ribeye steak to share with all of the timings for $18.
Somebody buy for me!
Since I don’t like to let our fuel tank get much below 1/2 full, we stopped at a Shell station in Terrell where we got diesel for $1.86. So far we are only getting about 7.5 MPG this trip but we have been fighting a lot of head winds along the way.
After filling up we made our way north-west to the Elks Lodge. The traffic wasn’t to awful bad except when we turned onto I-635 then it got a little worse. But we made it in here without to much hassle.
The lodge has seven parking sites with 50 amp power and water hookups. We were the only rig there so we had our choice of sites. They also provided key cards so that we could use the bathrooms and showers in the back of the building.
Our main purpose for coming to Dallas is to visit our friends Jim and Linda Holtz who live in Amarillo. About ten months ago Mr. Jim suffered a stroke so they come down to Dallas where he goes to speech and physical therapy. They have a large 5th-wheel trailer that their son-in-law pulls down here for them to have a place to live.
After getting situated at the Elks we drove up to Carrollton, TX to the RV park where Jim and Linda are staying. We sat around and talked for quite a while then we went to Agave Azul Mexican Restaurant. The supper was fantastic and the conversation was lively.
On Sunday we visited President George W. Bush's Library and Museum on the Southern Methodist University campus.
This is a piece of the World Trade Center.
Barry & Joyce
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