2 for 2

April 7 & 8 & 9/17  Weather good.  No storms.  Time to head North.  Travel temperature was very comfortable high 70's so we did not heat up in the motorhome.  Today there was a Wind Advisory with gusts up to 57 mph. South to South West direction.  We got lucky since it was mostly at our back corner.  It was so strong that if we had been traveling the other way we would have sat out the day.

Texas Flag

 1) We went sideways across Texas heading towards Texarkana.    We thought we would stop before 3 pm at a park that was in our Big Rig RV Guide called Staway Ranch RV Park in Murchison, Texas. (if you look at the link to the park it does not look like the advertising).    Last year I looked at it on my camping map and I thought it meant "Stay Away"'; like stay away from this area.   But "no that can't be"  the people that write the guide have a beautiful big rig so they only pick good places.  HA!!!!   Yes the name says it all.   Needless to say we were the only transient RV, and the park needed a bit of TLC.   

Arkansas Flag

2) Second day we went up towards Little Rock, Arkansas and across almost to West Memphis.   There wasn't a whole lot of parks to choose from so we kind of kept going.  Stopped at a small park in Forrest City called Delta Ridge RV Park. 
Yes the park did look like the advertising it was just the area around it was bad. 
The area was very sketchy, a motel out front of the property was in some stage of dereliction/remodel, police sirens going, heard about muggings in the Walmart parking lot in broad daylight.  Park owner told us to lock everything and no walking around after dark!!!
Thus my title of this posting:   Billy told me I was 2 for 2.  

Illinois Flag

3) Today we took our time and made it just into the Illinois border taking I55N & I57N.  In Benton we found a nice KOA.  Really KOA means no surprises.  You can pretty much count on it being just fine.  Well usually a bit noisy by a freeway and also a train station but hey after the last two nights choices it is great.  No adventures tonight!

redbud trees blooming at Benton KOA