Friday, April 7, 2017
Today I packed up the rig and had it nearly ready to go when Tony got off work. We decided to head to Terrell for the weekend, so we could do some work at our storage units in Rockwall. We knew our non-climate controlled unit had some failing boxes, so we planned to consolidate and repack some of those. We also brought the couch that we removed from our rig last year, so we could store it in a climate controlled unit. -- it had been in our unit in Cisco, but we have been culling some of that stuff down, and felt this would be a good time to move it. We stuffed it (in pieces) into my small SUV, and I followed Tony to Terrell.
We pulled out about 4pm. We had some slowdown around Santo, where they were doing some road patching, and had the lane narrowed from two to one. Sadly, we also came upon a wreck that had just happened. It looked like someone didn't see the construction traffic had slowed, and a Dually pickup slammed into the back of another pickup. There was extensive damage, but the cans of the tricks looked unscathed. People were out and walking around, with one person sitting on the ground. Highway patrol had just arrived, so hopefully they could be taken care of quickly.
We stopped for dinner in Weatherford at the Whataburger. There is a large gravel parking lot not far from it, so Tony headed there and I went into the drive through. As he was making a turn, he went over the curb a bit with the last trailer wheel.
I got our food and headed to the parking lot. Tony was in the rig, and some slides were out. I met him at the door, and he told me the microwave had come open and our turntable plate had fallen and shattered! Not only that, it fell on the induction cooktop and cracked it! :-(
So we ate our dinner, then went back on the rig and cleaned up he broken glass. Then we got back on the road again. In Arlington, we got another heart-pumping experience. A small car was zipping too fast in the far left lane, when he encountered slowing traffic. He slammed on his brakes, started skidding, overcorrected, and slammed into the center concrete barrier. Luckily, he didn't bounce back into traffic! Tony was slightly ahead of this incident, and I was slightly behind. We weren't in any danger, but you just hate to see that happen. The driver was fine, as I looked in the side mirror he got out of the car and seemed to already be on his phone. Hope he wasn't on it during!
We got to Bluebonnet Ridge RV Park in Terrell about 7:30pm, and got set up. It was definitely warmer and more humid here!
Tomorrow, we start our chores.
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