Baytown, TX

Since it would be a longer travel day for us yesterday, we left earlier (8 AM) than our normal departure time (9-10). It didn't take long though before we lost time. With all the freeways cris-crossing in Houston, as we were leaving, Josie got separated from me and we lost about 1/2 hour getting connected again. She got back on the freeway but was 5 miles ahead of me. It is very difficult to stay together when there is business rush hour traffic and we aren't familiar with the freeway system. Combined with no signage until you are on top of the turnoff, it's a wonder it doesn't happen more often. This was the first time it has happened to us in all of our travels. Anyway, we got together again and went the rest of the way with no problems.

We made it to Baytown, TX and the Houston East RV Resort at around 3 PM. With a few stops, one at this Texas Welcome Center:

and traveling 317 miles, it wasn't bad. The nicest part of the day was that we had sunshine and clear skies the whole trip. It was the first time we had nice weather since we left Campbellsville. Our nice site is pictured below:

We received our information, including airline tickets for our training class in January. We had been hearing all along that it would take place in either Denver or Dallas. Forget that. We will be traveling to Eugene, OR, on January 8th for 2 weeks of training to take place in Corvallis. We will be staying in a Hilton Hotel in Corvallis while attending class at a local Holiday Retirement Community in Corvallis - the Stoneybrook Lodge. We will have a rental car and all of our expenses covered. It should be exciting.

Today is a travel day to San Antonio which is about a 250 mile trip. We plan to connect with our friends from Cody - Karen and George - who have a home in New Braunfels, TX, just outside of San Antonio. It will be nice to see them again and catch up on each other's activities since last year. They were in Cody again this past summer so it will be nice to get an update on that experience. We also plan to visit the Alamo and the Riverwalk while we are there for 2 nights.

We'll have breakfast this morning and be on our way, hopefully, by 9 AM...