A Journey

In the year 550 BC, the chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Well, that covers a thousand mile journey, but I was beginning to wonder what it would take to get an 1100 mile journey going! Our original plans this month were to leave Ohio on Wednesday, March 14. However, because our motorhome was in storage up until the Sunday before that, we really didn't have time to get going until the afternoon of Thursday the 15th. Since we had reservations for Saturday the 17th in Texas, we decided to push ourselves a bit and traveled to Franklin Kentucky on Thursday, arriving there about 11 PM. As is our habit, we stopped at a convenient Flying J truck stop for the night, where I and the bed became as one for the rest of the night. We got up about 8 on Friday morning and went into the Denny's located at the Flying J. After breakfast we fired up the coach, aired up the bags, and headed southwest towards Tennessee and Arkansas with our goal being the Flying J in Texarkana. We expected to stay the night there and finish the last hour and a half of our journey to Lone Star Texas on Saturday morning. As luck would have it, we ran into a lengthy delay due to construction on I45, and finally arrived at our destination about 11 PM. After another night sleep, we woke up refreshed, and while taking the pups for a walk in the parking lot, came across an interesting sight:



A trailer full of giant animals including a chicken, a horse, a hippo, some sort of griffin thing, and other assorted animals that, apparently the driver had to have along on his trip with him, sort of like a modern day Noah, if you will.


We left Texarkana and after a short drive through east Texas, we arrived at Scenic View Marina and RV park in Lone Star Texas. If you are wondering why we worked so hard to get here, this is the reason:



After our arrival here, Linda and I got into the car and headed down the road about 5 miles to David Beard's Catfish Village:



If you like farm raised catfish, or even think you might, you owe it to yourself to someday try David Beard's Catfish Village. They have really good catfish filets in an awesome batter, along with cole slaw, tomato relish, tartar sauce, a really nice cocktail sauce, and it is all you can eat. I may be hungry again, sometime next week!!

Tomorrow is Sunday, and we will be going to church at South Union Missionary Baptist Church. After that there is plenty more relaxation in store for these weary travelers, with more adventures to come. See you next time.