April 12, 13, 14/2018 Thursday in Texarkana, Texas then Friday and Saturday in West Memphis, Arkansas.
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| Shady Pines RV Resort in Texarkana, nice clean long sites |
Weather on Thursday 81 and low of 66. We set our alarm (leave by 8 am) and moved on and up to Texarkana trying to get ahead of high winds coming in later this afternoon. Mostly it was behind us or to the side but not too bad. We got in early by 1:30 and enjoyed the rest of the day under a tree at
Shady Pines RV Resort. We like this park as it is much quieter than others in the area located on the interstates. It is also very pretty and clean, sometime we should stay here for a week and explore.
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| Radar shows its coming our way in Memphis, going to hit about midnight |
Friday Weather - Extreme Winds behind and side of us, 80 and low of 65.... once again we set our alarm (leave by 8 am) to get ahead of a nasty storm that is coming with high winds and possible tornadoes. It appears if we can get to Memphis and settle in early afternoon we can then ride out the storm as it passes thru. Billy will leave all the slides in since the wind can damage the slide toppers. Our coach is easy to live in closed as it has a central aisle and we can use everything. We were parked and hooked up by 1:30 pm at the
West Memphis KOA. This is just an ok park but convenient for an overnighter. We recommend you choose a site at the back of the park to avoid some of the road noise. We booked in for 2 days since the following day would be us driving into the storm after it passes us. We are going to sit and wait out the weather; you cannot beat Mother Nature! It was high winds and rain for a good part of the night about 3 inches fell and the campground was quite wet in the morning. No worries, we are just hanging around today. Tomorrow will be another pin on the Map.
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| water at the W Memphis KOA after the storm |
