We spent the night in Shreveport Louisiana last night (Friday) and got to see one of the Boomtown Casinos that are scattered around the country. For those of you that don't know I work for the Cashell family that founded Boomtown in Reno Nevada and sold it in 1989.




We are in Baton Rouge tonight and it is starting to look like Louisiana. We haven't heard much of the Cajun Accent yet but I am guessing we will.


Pearl and I had a nice healthy Picnic going down the road today!



Maybe not as good as Leslie's Salad Bar but a close second or third place.


We drove I-49 from Shreveport to Baton Rouge and they are tearing out about 20 miles of what appeared to be a wooden road from many decades ago. There appeared to have been two lanes of wooden base that was 12 or more feet wide each. I am not sure what it used to be but it sure looked like an old road made of wood.






We couldn't find much of a selection of RV parks but ended up in this one. It doesn't have cable so I had to set up the direct TV dish. I just got it working and some knot head parked right beside me and blocked my signal. I had to move the Jeep and put the Satellite dish on top of the Jeep. It is working just fine but if someone else pulls in the vacant space beside me I will either have to read a book or go sight seeing. It's is so hot and humid, I am thinking reading a book might win out.






Pearl put a Pork Roast in the slow cooker this afternoon, so it cooked all day while we were driving. We will be eating in just a couple of minutes;

Roast
Mashed Potatoes
Biscuits
Corn
Black Eyed Peas

and Margaretta's for dinner.



LIFE IS GOOD.

It's 10:15 am (Texas Time) on Friday morning and we are in the middle of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, lots of traffic but we have 4 lanes to play with. The plan is to make it to Sheriveport Louisiana by noon and spend the night. Hope everyone has a great week-end.

Mom & Dad's House in Plainview. This is where they did
the entire conversion from a Greyhound bus to a Motorhome.

We left Plainview Texas this afternoon and headed to Snyder Texas to visit my sister (Tonya)and her husband (Britt). Britt is an administrator at West Texas College and they have a RV parking with full hook-ups at the College that he got us for Free (I forgot to say Thanks though).

Anyway on the way to Snyder the outside air temperature went over 100 up to 104 I think. The bus engine heated up to past the red line (200 degrees) on the temp gauge. Luckily my dad had installed "Misters" on the radiators, which is basically a small garden watering misting type fitting that is hooked into the RV drinking water (100 gallons of water stored there). We turned the misters on and it brought the temp down about 10 degrees so it was below the red line and we continued on. I think the outside air temp is supposed to stay up in the triple digits for the next few days, so we will have to watch that closely because that is what causes head gaskets to blow and your potentially looking at a new engine or in our case a airplane ticket back home. I think the misters will do the trick as long as we don't hit too many long uphill stretches and New Orleans is down hill from here.....

Pearl showing Tonya some of the changes she has made to Cozy..


Not only did we get a free RV site with hook-ups, we got a free dinner (Thanks Again). I must have been a good brother no matter what Steve says........

My brother-in-law "Britt" with 3 (Hanna, Emily, Nathan) of his 4 grandkids (not present Ashlyn). He took us out to dinner then took his grand kids home and let Tonya, Pearl and I go talk about solving the mysteries of the universe. The real reason he did all that was there is apparently nothing he would rather do than hang out with his grandkids and I think they apparently feel the same.

I have to admit that is one of my favorite pastimes too, Pearl and I have 14 grandkids so we can keep pretty busy with all that.

We spent the last week-end in Corona California and headed to Texas on Monday. Pearl is taking this picture of me, our son Steven, his wife Marlo (Jinxi Boo), and their three kids Brynn and the twins Adain and Shea. We had a great time in southern California with them and since the parents are Vegans (don't eat anything that comes from animals) and the kids are vegetarians I had decided to take them out to dinner at a Vegan restaurant. Luckily they said they would/could go to a regular restaurant and just order food specially prepared. I didn't argue and didn't even tell them that I had decided to try it because I think I would have had a hard time eating fake food (just kidding Jinxi)....





I didn't take time to set up the office furniture going through Arizona and New Mexico, so as a result, I still have it all (at least the 3 remaining chairs). Things have been going fairly smoothly and we are averaging 6.9 miles per gallon of fuel and that's pretty good. We made the trip fairly quickly with a quick nap in a casino parking lot out of Albuquerque and have been in Texas since Tuesday at noon.

This is Pearl driving on I-40 past an Indian Curio Shop in Arizona


This is Pearl and My Dad who along with my Mom completely converted the Greyhound Buy into a Motorhome called "COZY"

We are going to stop by Snyder Texas tomorrow (Thursday) evening to visit my sister and heading to New Orleans for 3 days.

I am in the dog house now. I was feeling like a smart ass and put one of the chairs out in front of the bus and was checking email this morning and pearl took a picture. It is posted in the last entry. Well when I was finished with the email I got up and went in to make a entry into the blog and we took off for Corona CA to visit some of our grandkids.

We are about 100 miles down the road and I asked Pearl if she put the chair up because I didn't remember putting it up. She said "No" and asked why would I ask. I told her I couldn't remember putting it up. Well I can only make that mistake 3 more times and I will be out of office furniture.

I plan to update my Pre-Departure checklist.

We finally got on the road around 3:30 Friday afterrnoon. We decided to leave the dog (Pepper) at the house to keep Brian company and figured it would be easier on all of us (except for possibly Brian).

We stopped around 9:30 and covered about 300 miles. James Boyd (out IT Dude at the Alamo) hooked some kind of attachment that plugs into the side of the computer so I can get internet access almost anywhere and by golly it works. I am getting my email and updating the blog from the side of the road where we spent the night.

Pearl made some coffee for my morning 10 minute (state mandated) break. Once that is over we will hit the road. Its Saturday so most of you are off work but come Monday when your back at work, I will still be looking for my next road side office.