Day 3—the day that we attempt to escape from all the heat.

So, the consensus last night was that we would leave the RC event a bit earlier than originally planned. Michael was having fun with his flying friends but the rest of us were tired of the heat so he agreed to put us out of our misery ;-). We left Grapevine around 11 and due to some road construction, had to take a round-about path through a really nice subdivision. We seriously drove by a home that had about 10 turrets—yes, like a castle. Here’s a photo of one of the smaller homes (with only 3 turrets)—you see it is for sale—anyone want to venture a guess at the price?? We didn’t stop and get a flyer but I’m curious!

As it was now getting close to lunchtime, we decided to make a lunch/fuel stop—and guess where we ate??! At the GAS STATION!! This seems to be a huge trend in Texas (okay, it’s one in Georgia, too,—I guess it seems more ‘exotic’ here because I don’t know any of these restaurants!!) We had lunch at Giant Burger—and the name pretty much says it all—meat, meat and more meat! But they were really yummy!

The Giant Burger/gas station was also the home of the ‘cowgirl hat’ purchase by Emma! Woohoo—she’s now official!

The next several hours (okay, 7), were spent driving from central to north Texas… and we saw a lot of cows, a lot of fields and a lot of oil wells. And one wind farm. We saw quite a few of these on our last trip west—but they are still amazing to me!

We arrived at our evening destination, Dumas (TX), around 7 pm. A quick google search landed us at a local Mexican restaurant. On our way back to the RV, we spotted these ginormous dandelions—which were another repeat of the 2008 trip.

Our campsite for the evening is at a city park—which offers a free ‘campground’ (it’s basically a parking lot) with electric hookups. Considering some places charge you upwards of $20/night with NO hookups at all, this is a super deal! There is a fun playground next to the ‘campground’ and we all spent some time enjoying the outdoors after riding in the car all afternoon.

Tomorrow will be another long day of driving (450 miles) so we will be leaving really early (the bonus of going west is that your body is still on Eastern time—so we’re all waking up between 5:30 and 6 regularly!) We should be in the Rocky Mountains tomorrow (staying in a Jellystone Campground, Sara!)