Day 2-3

Day 2

Location: Dallas, TX

Gas Price: 2.99

Miles Driven: 1186

We drove through most of Mississsippi, Louisiana, and Texas today. We learned yesterday that there are hills/mountains in Alabama and today we learned there are camels in Texas. Yes, camels – We passed some sort of zoo that had pastures with camels on the side of I-20. Very weird. Texas is beautiful, I’ve enjoyed driving in Texas more than the other states so far! Megs and I started to get a little silly after being in a car for the second day straight for over nine hours, this will be the only stretch of constant driving all day until we drive back from Colorado! We also learned that there are truck washes not just car washes in Texas. Oversized car washes for 18 wheelers – pretty funny to see, especially when in a strip mall with a Subway and Pizza Hut.

We got to see some old family friends in Hillsboro, Texas tonight. We stopped for dinner and ice cream before coming up to Dallas to pitch the tent for the first time. This begins our adventure, as Megs has never put up a tent before but no worries – I am typing this from a well set up and secured tent. The guy at the gate kept asking us if we had an air conditioner or a fan so hopefully we will be ok tonight. It doesn’t seem hot here but it was overcast all day and we had a few showers while driving. Speaking of showers, we probably got our last hot shower for a while this morning, our campsite now has showers but only cold ones.

Tomorrow we plan on seeing Dallas and Fort Worth – In Texas, museums and such are closed on Mondays for some reason so we will hopefully still be able to see some things. We plan on eating either at a Texas steakhouse tomorrow night or authentic Mexican food!

Anyways, I’m exhausted so I’m off to bed.

Alison

Day 3

Location: Dallas, TX

Gas Price: 2.79

Miles Driven: 1273

Quote of the Day: “Follow the dots and don’t hit any Mexicans!” Megan

Today we explored downtown Dallas and the Historic District in Fort Worth. We spend the morning wandering around downtown Dallas seeing the Thanksgiving Memorial Park and the Kennedy Memorial. Most museums and historic sites are closed on Mondays in Dallas so we went on to Fort Worth around lunch time. We saw the Stock Yard District in Fort Worth which was very interesting! We went to the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame and a Wagon museum which had tons of different wagons from various time periods. We also got to see the cattle drive down one of the main streets as well as shopped in the western stores. Megs bought a pair of cowboy boots! We ate dinner by the Stockyards at a Texas steakhouse and it was delicious! We had a filet and country fried steak.

Today, we learned that the rain tarp is an important part of the tent – otherwise your stuff gets very wet! Fortunately, all but are pillows are dry now!

Tomorrow, we will head towards the western part of Texas.

Alison