We said goodbye to Houston just before 10:00 AM and set out for Corpus Christi. We took secondary highways that more or less followed the gulf coast. It was a fairly relaxed and much more interesting drive. We passed through many bayous in the first 80 miles of the drive. The terrain then turned very swampy with large water areas. We then drove through flat farming land that resembled the prairies around southern Manitoba. As we got closer to Corpus Christi the land opened up into large salt water flats and expansive bays.
We were finally able to shed our sweaters and wear our t-shirts as the temperature finally got into the mid-teens as we pulled into our campground the Hatch RV Park. A grounds- keeper was cutting the lawn around some of the sites while we were preparing dinner. The park is located across from a stadium and next to a cemetery so we really are expecting a quiet stay. As we were driving to our site in the park we let a couple of vehicles pass us. The last one was a truck who rolled down their window to talk to us. She wanted to know where in Manitoba we were from. When we told her that we were from Winnipeg/ she told us that there were some other Winnipeggers in site 138. As she drove off we could see that she was from Quebec. As we drove further along we could see many more Canadian plates mostly from Ontario. I imagine that these "foreign” plates will be more and more common as we proceed further south.
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