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April 12, 13, 14/2018  Thursday in Texarkana, Texas then  Friday and Saturday in West Memphis, Arkansas.

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.

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.

water at the W Memphis KOA after the storm

These snowbirds need to fly home

April 11/2016  Weather....... ?  Good question.  

Red Poppies at Wildseed Farms outside Fredericksburg, Texas

Hill Country Texas the weather is great,,,, Southwestern Ontario, Canada it is cold.  However!   A big however; in five days from now it's going to be much warmer - forecast is 52 low of 39 and it improves day by day.   We can live with that.    So we head out on our trek to the North.   It's about 1600 miles which we want to do in 4 nights, 5 days.  Our medical insurance is good till the 15th so we need to be in Ontario by Friday and we have lots of appointments with Mum.

Our 1st night will be top of Texas (North East) near Tyler, Texas.   Hot(86)  humid travel day thunderstorms threaten all day.   Spooky clouds.  We travel cross country and see the amazing poppy fields on hwy 290 Fredericksburg.   The wildflowers driving to Austin were really pretty then making some miles came into play and we jumped on Interstate 35 North, then veered off it before hitting Dallas.  Not going near that traffic!!! Ugh!   So we go cross country on hwy 31 to Fernbrook RV Park in Longview.   We settle in and turn on the TV with all kinds of Tornado watches and severe thunderstorms and golf ball size hail within 50 miles of our park.  That's us the little blue dot surrounded by storms, North and East.   So glad we didn't keep driving into it,,, but my guardian angel (Dad) is looking out for us and as spooky as it looks we only have a hard rainfall.   Phew, that was too close for comfort.

storms everywhere around our little blue dot..... Yikes

 Day 2  our drive is much cooler and clear with sunny skies today, temp only about 65F (night 46)while crossing Arkansas and stopping at West Memphis KOA.  Easy in and out, cute store with Pulled Pork sandwiches in case we don't feel like cooking tonight.  Still an hour behind clock wise, that's going to catch up to us at some point.   Perhaps tomorrow we will be back in the time zone of Ontario.   We will see where we get to.  We are going up I55 then crossing East on the Blue Grass Parkway, that is a pretty ride.  Weather is going to stay in the 60's and low 40's now all the way back the next couple days.  Rubber side up:)