Here are the Blogs in the
Florida-Texas Loop 2015 category.
Florida-Texas Coast Tour 2015 Mar 5-6
On the night of the 4th in Hope, we listened to rain which then turned to sleet around 10:00PM. Next morning we had 3"-4" of snow on the ground. When the sun came out, where the roads had been plowed, the Interstate was bare and dry. We decided to move out around
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Posted on 03/06/2015 10:11 PM by Bob Duthie
Florida-Texas Coast Tour 2015 Mar 5-6
We worked out a strategy as to how to deal with the winter storm that was forecast for the night of the 4th. We listened to rain all that day which then turned to sleet around 10:00PM. Next morning we had 3"-4" of snow on the ground. When the sun came out, where
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Posted on 03/06/2015 10:11 PM by Bob Duthie
Florida-Texas Coast Tour 2015 Mar 1-4
March 4th is the rainiest day yet. A big storm with freezing rain and snow was forecasted for tonight so we left Caddo Mills (30 miles east of Dallas) early and drove 170 miles to Hope, AR before noon. We are at the Village Inn & RV Park. A name that had me expecting
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Posted on 03/04/2015 5:00 PM by Bob Duthie
Marathon, TX
This is an interesting but struggling old town with a magnificent hotel, RV Park, grocery store and a couple of restaurants. It thrived in the days when the railroad made it a crew change point. That was moved to Alpine a few years ago. Other businesses followed such as one closed restaurant
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Posted on 02/28/2015 8:56 PM by Bob Duthie
Saturday night we spent in Texana Park and Campground arriving after hours. The GPS took us a mile past the park entrance. We stopped and called the park and the Law Officer came out and escorted us right to our campsite. That was great service.
Corpus Christi
Sunday we drove to friends (clients
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Posted on 02/25/2015 11:34 PM by Bob Duthie
We covered about 600 miles in two days on a lot of rough I-10 pavement. Louisiana has the worst roads and Texas' roads are better. The high spots were the Louisiana and the Texas Welcome Centers.
Louisiana Welcome Center
Louisiana had a 10 year old multimedia exhibit that was interesting and a
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Posted on 02/21/2015 9:22 PM by Bob Duthie
NIck's Seafood Restaurant
The Rally was over last Sunday and we had one final celebration by going out for dinner at Nick's Seafood Restaurant on Choctawhatchee Bay with three friends from Minnesota and Alaska. There was an interesting sunset we watched from Nick's. On Monday we headed east for a
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Posted on 02/19/2015 4:29 PM by Bob Duthie
Freeport View/Navion Rally
We set out on the 10th for a 30 day trip to Florida and the Texas Coast hoping to make it to Big Bend National Park on the Rio Grande. The first 5 days we will be at the annual rally of View/Navion Motorhomes. Many like ours date back to 2006-7. This Rally began in 2006
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Posted on 02/12/2015 8:50 PM by Bob Duthie