There was a long drive awaiting us this morning. Our RV park scheduling showed us as being in San Antonio this evening and we like to stay pretty close to our schedule so we don’t end up camping in Walmart parking lots, unremarkable vacant dirt lots under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management or highway rest areas. With that in mind, we got a reasonably early start from last night’s accommodations in Langtry, TX, and continued southeast alongside the Rio Grande on US-90 toward Del Rio. We crossed over the Pecos River right at the confluence with Rio Grande between Langtry and Del Rio. We stopped for fuel in Del Rio in the first fuel station we had seen in a couple of days.
US-90 turns east in Del Rio and we stayed the course for a few more hours, passing through Uvalde, until we turned north on Farm to Market Road 471 to a little non-town called Lakehills west of San Antonio. FM-471 is a screwy road with about 20 miles of up-and-down and, somewhere along the way, we blew out a left rear trailer tire which took out a bit of plastic exterior molding, quite a bit of slide-out lower weather seal, a bit of sheet metal lower trailer skirt, some electrical components associated with our rear stabilizer jacks, a leaf spring that used to support the tire, one pricey tire and the wheel it used to be mounted on. We called a mobile mechanic and we will have him do a more thorough search for damage when he arrives. If it was just a flat tire, we would have to pay for it ourselves but, since there was a moderate amount of damage associated with the tire’s sudden failure and subsequent disintegration, we may have insurance to pick up part of the repair cost. I’m not too hopeful because I have dealt with insurance companies before.
The good news is that we were in the Thousand Trails Lake Medina campground before Peggy jumped out of the rig to register for our stay and looked back to see that we had had a big boo-boo and we would need repairs. We pulled into a nice, shady spot with full hookups, good satellite TV reception, deer everywhere and no need to leave for a few weeks. We are delighted that the big catastrophe did not occur when we were out in the portions of Texas between here and Del Rio. We like Texas but there are some vast, wide open spaces with no phone service in this state and we easily could have spent a miserable and expensive few days in some tiny town with a name like Succotash.
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