Day 26: Goodlet, TX - Shreveport, LA
Thursday, November 12th: We woke to the sweet smell of grasses in the air and a layer of fog over the fields. The Old Cotton Gin RV Park serves a continental breakfast in the renovated factory for $1.00. A whole $1.00 that includes biscuits and gravy, pancakes, cereal, fruit, coffee, tea, juice... ahhh... just gotta love the country life. We were all up and dressed to eat at 8am and then once again... on the road.
Thursday, November 12th: We woke to the sweet smell of grasses in the air and a layer of fog over the fields. The Old Cotton Gin RV Park serves a continental breakfast in the renovated factory for $1.00. A whole $1.00 that includes biscuits and gravy, pancakes, cereal, fruit, coffee, tea, juice... ahhh... just gotta love the country life. We were all up and dressed to eat at 8am and then once again... on the road.
Our plans today are to finish driving the lone star state of Texas... it's a wide one... and stay somewhere in Louisiana. We also thought we had better get the oil changed for the second time on the trip... which by the way is not an easy thing to do for a 10' wide, 12' tall motorhome. You just can't drive it into the local Wal-Mart Automotive Department. The quick lube places seem to be the best bet if they have big enough doors... so we were able to get this done in Vernon, Texas about 30 minutes into our day.
We drove through lots of small towns with not much going on... and many more cotton fields... where much of the cotton had been baled in big giant blocks that looked like they could fit in a semi-truck. Once we hit Dallas, just before lunch time and wound our way through the maze of interchanges and belt routes, we were on I-20 and making very good time. We started to look in our trusty Trailer Life Directory (lent to us by RV'ers Gay and Jeff) for an RV park somewhere near Monroe (in the middle of Louisiana) but the ratings for those parks were NOT very good.
There was a highly rated park in Shreveport/Bossier City called the Tall Pines RV Park. So we decided not to drive as far as we had hoped so we could stay there. But we still drove 412 miles which is not bad. We were in Shreveport early enough to fill up the gas tank, have daylight to set up camp, and Mom and I did a few loads of laundry. It was owned and run by a nice couple that are into Harleys and have an annual motorcycle rally there... it was a good decision because it was a very nice park.
Photos: RV in front of the Old Country Cotton Gin; Riley helping Drew grill at the Tall Pines RV Park
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