We spent our first two overnight stops in Wal Mart parking
lots, the first night in Augusta Georgia and the second just southeast of Memphis Tennessee.
They are very convenient rest stops when traveling; they welcome RV’ers, the
lots are as safe as anywhere with video surveillance and usually patrolled, you
can buy anything you need right there, easily located everywhere, and free. We
left home with full fresh water tanks and empty holding tanks. We have a fine
running generator for power. We don’t need to be hooked up to utilities every
night.
Our third night we picked a campground with cable TV because
we didn’t want to miss a program we have been following. The Overland RV Park
in Van Buren Arkansas
is right off I-40, convenient but with some highway noise. After we got hooked
up in our site I discovered the cable TV was so fuzzy you couldn’t see much of
anything. I carry spare cable parts and quickly made repairs to the campground
system, we got to see the episode of Under the Dome.
The next day, Tuesday we ran to our planned stop which was in
Arkansas at another
Wal Mart. We got there at 2pm and didn’t want to stop driving that early in the
day. As we drove further west on I-40 Millie started researching stopping spots
ahead of us. We reached the next proposed Wal Mart in Oklahoma;
again it seemed too early to stop so we crossed the border into Texas. Millie’s internet
search found a campground right on I-40 with resort like description, rave reviews
and reasonable price. We found the Oasis RV Resort in Amarillo Texas
to indeed be far nicer than campgrounds located along highways and catering to
overnight travelers. I learned that it was built as a destination Resort
because there was going to be a racetrack on the adjoining property. The
racetrack never got built and the Oasis now caters mostly to travelers.
Amarillo to Los
Alamos is easily drivable in one day and we arrived at our
destination early in the afternoon. The only mechanical problem we had the
entire trip happened on the last leg, driving down the interstate we got a
warning that one of the leveling cylinders was down. It had crept off its
retracted position, just enough to set off the alarm.
That’s enough about the express run across the country,
we’ll write about New Mexico
in future postings, it truly is "Tierra del Encanto".
The Land
of Enchantment.
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