Sunday 22nd January – delayed by the weather

Next time I woke up it was just before 8am, not bad at all considering!  Especially since the RV was still rocking about in strong winds.  There was no rush to do anything today and, if possible, we should avoid driving on any highways according to the weather advisory people.  Thankfully the locals of San Marcos had not prioritised getting their tyres changed this morning so it was relatively peaceful in our location.  The weather information said that the worst of the weather should die down after about 2pm.  We needed an RV site nearby so that we could go for our day out in Austin tomorrow instead.  The PA site in Austin itself was full.  The next best one was in San Marcos, literally 5 minutes away and had spaces.  Last night really worked out well for us in the end.  It’s a relief we didn’t stay at the race circuit as we would have been on top of a hill, even more exposed to the elements.  We’d had a free night on the most expensive night of the week and now only had to move a short distance to our next destination.

It was a real shame about the wind today, otherwise it was a clear blue-skied sunny day.  We kept the blinds down whilst we stayed in the car park for tea, coffee and bacon sandwiches before some blogging and Facetiming.  We didn’t get a knock on the door from anyone at Walmart so we had successfully negotiated our first free night care of the supermarket giant – cheers Walmart!

Soon after 2pm we buckled ourselves in for the journey to our next RV site.  Five minutes later, with no dramas we were there.  It was my choice of park so I can congratulate myself on a doozey!  We got half price with our PA membership but it was still $25 per night.  It was good to be back with electricity and running water (sorry Bear Grylls, we like our basics!).  The wind had subdued so I went to have look at San Marcos River which was beautiful with some slight rapids – too much for Steven Sea Eagle I fear:

 

The park has a warm indoor swimming pool and hot tub and superfast Wi-Fi for each individual device (I told you it was good).  Having done some blogging I went for a lovely swim in the warm, salt water pool, leaving Simon cooking us dinner in the RV.  A perfect evening.