Our latest adventure--Louisiana bound

Travelogue--Day 2

Well, we are on the road again. We left home yesterday mornings, Friday, May 4th, and headed south. Our original plan was to just go down to the Outlet Mall in Gainesville, TX, and spend the night in their RV Park. That would give us time to shop the mall. Well, we got in there around noon, hit the food court for lunch and then did a little shopping. About 1:45 we were back in the coach and were wondering what to do for the rest of the day. We decided to get back on the road. We unhooked from the electric, pulled in the slides and headed east.

At this point we decided we'd drive over to near Tyler, TX, and spend the night in the Wal-Mart parking lot at I-20. When we got there we found they are one of the few Wal-Marts that do not allow overnight parking. By now it was after 5:00pm so we looked at the atlas and saw there was another Wal-Mart at the next major town, about 35 miles east. We got there, pulled off the interstate and drove around the town but never found the Wal-Mart. By this time we were not all that far from the Louisiana state line and the Flying J fuel station where we normally stop for fuel when making this trip. So we just went on east and wound up staying in the Flying J parking lot, along with several other RV's.

Original plan was to spend the second night (tonight) at the Wal-Mart in Alexandria, LA. That is what we did last time we came down this way since it is a good days drive from Gainesville. Since we had gone so far east the first day we were only a little over a hunderd miles from Alexandria and only a little over 200 from Duson, where we stayed on our January trip to Florida. We arrived in Duson around noon today and set up camp in The Frog City RV Park. I then spent the afternoon cleaning the bugs off the windshield and front of the coach. The Love Bugs are out in force down here this time of year and the whole front of the coach was covered over with them. I've got the big windshield clean and started on the rest of the front but then pooped out with the high humidity here. I'll finish it tomorrow while it is still a little cool.

Late this afternoon we drove over, in the car, to the city civic center in Rayne, LA. That is where our club, Monaco America, will be having their semi-annual rally week after next. Another Monaco club has been having a rally there this week and we had some good friends, Andy and Linda Clarkson, who were attending. We got a chance to visit with them for a little bit. We have not seen this couple since our Florida tour group split up after the rallies down there back in February.

Tomorrow we will move over to Rayne to meet up with some other early arrivals to start getting ready for the rally. We are part of a core group that comes in early, prior to the rallies to help set things up and get it all ready for the rest of the rally attendees when they start arriving next weekend.