Did I mention it was a long day? Under normal circumstances Tim and I only drive for about six hours on travel days. However we still have to makeup some of the time that we lost from our late departure.
Our mapped out time to our destination for the night was about ten hours. Rule of thumb for us on a six hour day is to add an hour for refueling and breaks. Well somehow that 10 hour timeline became almost fourteen hours. We departed Crestview, FL at 8:15am and landed in Ennis, TX at 9:45pm. ???
There was bad traffic in Mobile, Alabama that held us up maybe close to an hour. We did stop for fuel twice and one other quick ‘break’. Just not sure where all the time went.
We did not want to go through Shreveport, Louisiana because of the bad roads on I-20 so we had decided to go farther west on I-10 before heading north to miss it. It was the quickest route anyway. Well then we received a rerouted update that said that route would now take an hour longer due to more traffic. Ugh! So we made the decision to go ahead and cut up through Mississippi and through Shreveport. In our heads we were thinking that road has to be fixed by now. Right?! Noooooo! We got Shrev’d again!! Someone please send both Mississippi and Louisiana money to fix their roads. Please. Worst road ever. Pot holes you could take a dip in and heaves that can launch your rig in the air. Eeek! Just like those Duke boys. Brought back memories of working with them down in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Yee haw!!
At the end of the day we had broke two of our Airstream tow travel rules. Don’t drive much more than six hours in one day. And don’t arrive to a campground after dark. Our final destination for the day was The Range Vintage Trailer Resort in Ennis, TX. It’s located somewhere southeast of Dallas. Sunday we will explore the resort and hopefully get some pictures to show y’all.
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