If you said, "What the announcer says at the start of a horse race," you get 4 bonus points. If you said anything about a song or a movie by that title, you're probably right, and you get another 10 bonus points (honor system - I trust you).
We were up just before 5:00 this morning, and pulling away from the RV site across from our former house around 6:30. We tried to be very quiet. The bridge to get off our island took one last "pound of flesh" - with the high tide, the rise from the fixed part of the bridge to the swing part was pretty steep; the leg on our trailer jack drug. It is mis-shaped now and the wheel won't go on. Not an emergency, we just won't be able to drop the trailer and reposition it until we get another jack. We tried to pound it back into shape when we got down for the day, but don't have the proper tools with us. It will be easier to just replace the jack, if we can find a trailer place that has one.
Back to today's drive. We left in the dark. The back road to get to the Expressway takes us past the storage unit where the motorhome used to stay. Nice road, and almost no traffic at this early time. Going through the town of Rio Hondo, we got caught at their lift bridge...
The center section of that bridge raises up to allow tug/barge traffic access to the Port of Harlingen. It doesn't see anywhere close to the barge traffic that goes through the Long Island Swing Bridge. In fact, in all the years we've been coming this way, this is only the second time we've had to wait for this bridge.
Out to the Expressway and heading north. Getting lighter, we passed the palm trees that let you know you are in a sub-tropical climate...
Rufus was a good boy - no fuss. He spent most of the drive on my lap, occasionally going to the passenger seat for a change of napping position...
Driving separate. We talk on the phone when necessary (hands-free, of course). The Insta360 Go 3 camera on the dash captured this...
Making miles. I wondered what the traffic would be like going through San Antonio on a holiday weekend... turned out to be a breeze. We stay on the phones going through any big cities so we can coordinate lane changes and discuss routing. She can let me know if something is coming up on either side of me that might need my attention, and I can tell her what traffic ahead looks like. It works.
We switch from I-37 to I-35 to I-10 as we go through San Antonio. We confirm with each other on upcoming turns. Once onto I-10 and clear of the traffic around San Antonio, it is this road all the way to Phoenix...
It will take us two full driving days to get across west Texas. Leaving San Antonio is just the start of it - another 550 miles or so to get out of the state. We stopped at a nice RV resort west of Kerrville...
I made the reservation for this place a couple days ago. Nice paved pull-through sites; level; full hook-ups, including decent cable TV. We were down early enough to mess with the trailer jack, and still have time to get Rufus a couple walks. This is further than we usually try for on the first day out, but we are looking to get to Phoenix and get this next chapter of our lives going.
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Rufus got to have a couple nice walks in the RV park today. He was his usual "chick magnet," attracting female attention, and they want to pet him. Yes, he likes when they make a fuss over him. It was also the first time I used my Hover X1 camera drone around him, and he did fine with it. He's in the first couple clips, then I went out on my own...
It was a delightful weather day today: in the 70s. 60s for the first couple hours after we got away from the coast. Nice to not have to run a/c, and to have the door open while we were in the RV park. We won't need a/c overnight - it's supposed to get into the 50s here tonight.
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