Two more in Frisco, Two in West Texas

We had three days with our friends Mary and Roger, and enjoyed their company very much. They have just moved into a nice home in Frisco Lakes, a Del Webb community, and are settling in very nicely. Mary fixed us dinner the night we arrived and breakfast the next morning, Thank You, Mary!

Hidden Cove RV Park is on the southeastern shore of Lake Lewisville, northwest of Dallas Metro, and very close to the town of Frisco. A week of recent hard rain has raised the lake level significantly.

We had settled into our site, number 86, the only pull through in the privately owned park, and enjoyed a bright Texas day.

At night, the lights of The Colony were visible across the lake.

On Thursday, our last day in Frisco, we visited The Star. This is the Dallas Cowboys football teams new practice facility. It includes two full size football fields and dozens of shops and restaurants. Jerry Jones has outdid himself with this one!

Did I mention he found a lot of sponsors?

Donna and I practiced our football moves (albeit with her purse instead of a football!)

Is this a legal stance?

Baylor University has a huge sports medicine facility at The Star.

Which is needed by everyone in this picture!

Sidewalks in the multi-block area are decorated with tributes to famous Dallas Cowboy players and coaches.

Friday morning was a sad departure as we hit the road west once again. We worked our way through Denton and Fort Worth, and settled into a routine on I20 west.

Two hundred seventy nine miles later we slid into the Lone Wolf Creek RV park in Colorado City, Texas. This park is fairly minimal, but has good facilities for an overnight stop. It's mostly inhabited by working people that come and go early, so we used that to our advantage this morning when we were awakened just about sunrise.

Back on the road, we began to get bored and started to take pics of "landmarks" along the way...

Yeah, Texas will do that to you....

As we passed through the Patch (as in oil) near Midland and Odessa, we marveled at the price of diesel fuel....nearly $4.00 a gallon within sight of the refinery that makes it on the ground it comes out of. Go figure.

West Texas is about a whole lot of flat ground, and we struggled to stay focused while driving. Donna started singing at one point, and that drove any drowsiness completely out of my mind!

But eventually, I20 merged with I10 heading north and west.

And, two hundred twenty five miles west of Colorado City, we called it a day in the town of Van Horn. The Van Horn RV Park was at one time a KOA campground, but now is a well maintained quiet park just far enough off the interstate to be quiet and peaceful. The sites are large and long enough for our class A rig, and the power is very adequate. We have three air conditioners running, a washing machine and dryer, an electric cooktop and a convection oven, all at the same time! We've been some places where that simply wouldn't happen!

We're about the only rv in the park, it being after the summer rush season, so we've decided to do a bit of cleaning before we embark on the last 10 days of our summer journey, and relax a bit.

So, there you have it: a couple more days in Frisco, and then a couple of days working our way across Texas. We've driven over 1,650 miles in the last week!