Getting a jump start on the rally week

Saturday, March 11, 2017

On Friday, we discussed the possibility of leaving on Saturday to head to Alpine, but maybe stopping half-way. That would be about Midland. We decided we'd see how we felt in the morning. We had spent last weekend and this week getting all the rally stuff together, so we felt we could get away at a decent time.

Saturday, we were up at a decent time, so we decided to leave. I called Midland RV Park and made reservations. We had a few hiccups before departing -- 1. Tony's air compressor  gauge/chuck was leaking air. We ended up removing the hose part that was leaking, and just using the chuck by itself. He also has a separate digital gauge, so we could still check how much air was in the tires.

2. The extender valve we had put on the spare under the rig would not take air. Tony had to lower the spare tire holder, disconnect the extender, and then fill the tire.

We finally headed out about 11:00am, about an hour later than we wanted, but we made good time.

We arrived at the Midland RV Park about 4:00pm.

In our spot, though it's hard to tell ours from theirs or the roads behind and in front!

It was actually a little toasty as we got set up. We even had to run the AC some. Not long after we were set up, we decided we were pretty hungry. So we got online and ordered a Domino's Pizza delivered, since we heard in the park office that they delivered to the sites in the park. Domino's has a neat little animated tracker to let you see what "stage" your pizza is in, and when it goes out for delivery. It was neat to watch the process.

The pizza arrived in about 45 minutes from ordering. We enjoyed our pizza and cheezy bread, then noticed the clouds were "exploding" out of the clear blue sky, and the wind really picked up. We were able to turn the AC off, because the temperature cooled as well. We had read about storms coming in about 8PM, some possibly severe, so we paid attention.

Clouds came in, and 24mph wind kicked up a lot of dust in this park!

The clouds became somewhat ominous!

A storm off to the east.

Luckily, the storms developed to the west and east of us, and we never got a direct "hit". We had some light rain, and small pea-sized hail for a bit, but nothing bad. By 10pm it was done with us, and moved on south and east. We hit the hay.