March 16, 2008
It was a little noisy at the rest area last night as we were unlucky enough to have an 18 wheeler with a refrigeration unit that came on automatically every hour or so during the night.
We drove east on highway 10 through some fairly good wind coming from the south and were lucky to find a roadside rest area that had both a dump station and potable water. So we were able to dump our holding tanks and replenish our fresh water that was almost all gone.
Because we didn't get much sleep last night we decided to check out a state park that Diane found in the road atlas.
Llano River State Park is about 120 miles west of San Antonio. It's very nice even though at first we were told that all sites were reserved due to Spring break. We were walking back to the motorhome when one of the park rangers ran out and told us they just had a cancellation if we still wanted to stay. .. Lucky us.
The site we were able to get is very nice with lots of room for the motorhome and after getting set up we took the pups down to check out the river.
Hayley couldn't wait to get in the water and both of them had fun chasing after sticks we threw in the river. They really needed to get the dust and dirt rinsed off them as they hadn't had any kind of bath since leaving Rancho B. park in Mexico.

March 17, 2008
We left the State Park about 10:00am this morning. Leo must not have liked the place because he chewed up the park map.
The weather was windy all day with heavy overcast although we didn't hit any rain. We expect to tomorrow as the forcast for the Houston/Livingston area calls for 80 to 90 percent chance of rain and heavy thunderstorms.
We stopped at a nice big roadside rest area about 75 miles west of Houston. That puts us about 150 miles or so from Livingston. We should be home tomorrow afternoon unless the storm is really bad and we have to stop somewhere before then.

March 18, 2008
The storm hadn't hit when we left the rest area and headed toward Houston. The wind was pretty strong however and blowing from the south which meant it was hitting us broadside.
Houston is in the midst of expanding/enlarging highway 10 and we had to follow a detour before we could get on the Sam Houston Expressway. Finally we did and followed the expressway to the highway 59 exit which must have the highest off ramp in the country. The one lane exit ramp must be 200 feet in the air.
The wind wasn't too bad going north on highway 59 as it was hitting us from behind. The sky was still heavy with clouds and we wondered when the rain was going to start although it never did. Later we learned that the storm by-passed Livingston so we lucked out.
It was nice to get home and find that our neighbors, Randy and Kris had cut the grass. The pups remembered the place and couldn't wait to race around the yard sniffing at everything.
This will be the last entry for awhile on the blog as we'll spend the next several days just unwinding and getting everything unpacked.
For those of you who have been following our adventures and misadventures, I hope you've enjoyed it.