Waco Texas

Monday, January 25,2010

We had spent 10 days in the Dallas area and it was now time to move on.  It felt quite chilly this morning, compared to what we had become accustomed.  The locals tell us that this is unusually mild for January and from the weather forecasts it seems that change is coming so we are going to head further south looking for those elusive, warm temperatures.  I had a bit of a start this morning as we were preparing to leave. Janet started retracting the slides into the trailer when I heard the sound of breaking glass.  I looked around fearing that the windows had broken and just as I did I saw another piece of ice fall from the top of the slide.  The canopy that protects the top of the slide has a tendency to collect water and a thin layer of ice had formed on it.  I suppose it got colder than I had originally thought last night.

We had seen a place where we could wash the trailer just down the Interstate from where we were camped so we decided to lather off the grime that we had accumulated travelling down here.  The coin slot asked for 10 quarters to start, which I thought was kind of much but I soon realized that had it asked for only one at a time I would have spent more time running back and forth feeding it.  Forty quarters later, the trailer looked respectable once again and we headed south through Dallas to Waco, Texas.

We found a nice little campground just east of town and will be camped here for a few days.  It is located in a rural area with many small farms surrounding it.  There is a pecan farm just across the road from us and horses are grazing in the field behind the campground.  On our way here we drove through the grounds of Baylor University, (FYI – Baylor plays in the Big 12 Conference).