A lazy day at Pecos.

Pecos was always only gonna be a night stop on our way to Roswell. And if i'm honest we did bugger all here.

We sat outside to watch a wonderful storm, my filming is a bit rubbish and I kept missing the lightning but it paid off in the end. We also had two humming birds for entertainment, local residents of the park. It was a very pleasant stop over for the night.

After the storm passed and the winds had died Adam played with his Drone again so theres some footage of that too.

Ali

Sonora Caverns

I spotted an RV park on the web at a perfect halfway point between San Antonio and Pecos called Sonora Caverns. It has the largest privately owned active caverns in the USA. It sounded like fun so we decided to head there for an over night stop. We have been following the 2.2.2 rule of RVing... namely try not to drive more than 200 miles a day, never drive for more than 2 days in a row and always try to get to your destination before 2. This means you dont lose all your days driving.

Sonora was all it promised to be. We booked a guided tour (walking for beginners) which was about 2 hours long. The caverns are pretty warm, about 71 degrees but with a 98% humidity which makes it feel like 85 degrees. The caverns are wonderful. With vains of Quartz as tall as me running in the walls along side the walkway, I grinned the entire time round. I skipped almost the whole way too. It was awesome.

The view from the RV

Stalagmites and Stalactites 

Domes in the ceiling made by gas bubbles 

Purrrdy

Look at that cauliflower 

This is called "The belly of the whale"

and a pic to prove he was there too

Ali

San Antonio, Texas

Lelo...its me in it.....

Well today was a brill day. we actually got to go do some real sight seeing.
We are staying just outside San Antonio, Texas. For anyone that doesn't know this is the home of "The Alamo" A Mission built originally by the Spanish to convert the native americans that ended up being a monument in history as the scene of a battle that helped secure Texas' independence from Mexico. (and yes i did steal that from a guide book....you dont think i knew all that myself did you....?)
Anyways we drove to San Antonio, only 10 mins down the freeway, and walked round for the day. 


The centre of the city has a large river running thought it (the San Antonio river) and we did "The River Walk" which basically takes you thought the city along the river side, which incidentally is below street level so you walk under all the main streets and  past loads of historical sights. It was awesome. We finished the day with a river boat tour. Then home again, home again, jiggerty jig...

Ali




Oh and heres some photos

The Alamo (or at least the front of it)

The Plevins At The Alamo

Monument commemorating 100 years of Texas independence

Aztek Theatre

our lunch at "Ritas on the River"

Healthy Chocolate.....20 flavours of toffee/chocolate apples....nom

Marriachi Band at "Ritas"

Wonderful optical illusion building on river tour (look ma, no walls)

Marriott Hotel where Fairmount Hotel used to be

Statue of Saint Antonio

On the road

Well today we started our trip, in the way it's suposed to be, with Ali sat next to me and the toad behind us.  We are now at Brauning Lake RV Resort just outside San Antonio.  To date it's the poshest RV park we have been to, we don't yet know what is posh and what is not but compared to the other two this is posh.  We are here for two nights, which gives us a whole day tomorrow to go have a nose in San Antonio and to see 'the alamo'.  I'm sure there will be a post about that then.

Oh and here's that footage from the AR Drone taken at the Shiloh park, in it you can see the RV and toad connected.

/Adam

Ali here, I've also got a little video for you just because I was so excited to be sat in the rig....lol. sorry.....

Back to Houston

Well today we left Rainbows End, and headed south back through Houston by a couple of miles to Shiloh RV Park, we plan to be here for just two nights.  The reason behind this return trip is so the car can be turned into a toad (towed).  We ordered the parts and booked this when we bought the RV and car so we know they will be able to fit together.  I'm kinda looking forward to it, the first drive with the car behind us, and Ali sat next to me.

The park here is basic, but it's all that we need, I'll see if I have time to take some flying footage tomorrow which is something I'd like to try at all the sites we go to, weather permitting.

We have taken some time today to look at our route over the next few days and weeks, so we have a rough idea as to where we are going, how long we will be stopping and so on, but the first destination is Roswell!  It's going to take a few hops to get there but it's a destination.

/Adam

here's Ali

Our last night at Rainbows End.

Ok, so we have decided to leave Rainbows End a day early. We where supposed to be leaving on Thursday morning early to get back to PPL to have the towing stuff put on the car and rig but rather than be up at 6 in the morning for a 2 hour drive we have decided to go a day early and stay at another RV camp for a couple of nights. There's an RV camp just down the road from PPl about 20 mins drive. Shiloh RV park in Richmond. It looks lovely, so we are off to there in the morning. We can then get up at a sensible hour to get the car to PPL Thursday morning no hassle. Yey...

 We havnt really done much the last couple of days. It's been bloody hot. In the 90s every day. Too hot to do much at all. We did some washing and had a couple of walks in the evenings when it got cooler. But apart from that we have been very boring...it's been great.

 Ali.

And this is me flying again,

/Adam

Sunday Lunch

Well we decided to venture out to Livingston today, have a look around. We didn't get very far as most of it was closed.... Bummer... But we found an amazing cafe/store called The Courthouse Whistle-stop cafe. It was a huge antique and thrift shop attached to a cafe. Real home cooked Texas food too. We had Sunday lunch. Nom nom.
I had pulled roast beef with twice cooked mash potatoes and green beans and Ad had chicken and stuffing with French fries and mushrooms. It was bloody lovely. We had a good look round and spotted a welsh tea towel hung up. It was from Llangair PG where mum lives. How cool is that. After I told the owner of the connection she insisted on giving me the full address and I was to pass it to mum as she wants a postcard all the way from Wales to put up in the store. We took loads of pics, which you can see but no video today as tinterweb is still messing about and it takes hours to download... Will be back soon though. Promise...