Texas Trip

We started out last Thursday morning ( a little later than I had planned ) for Texas. We are going down to the Kileen/Belton area to see my oldest son Tom who is stationed at Ft. Hood. We stopped along the way in Texarkana at a rest area and were told that they had security so if we wanted to stay the night we could - we had a lot of miles to go yet though...



Every Camper must have a chandelier - right?



This was the view from our campsite:



Tom took us around to the biggest cowboy store in town...



Where we found belt buckles as big as your head!



We ate Texas BBQ at Rudys:



And Tom horsing around - notice no plates - just wax paper.



Saturday we went to the Sherwood Forest Ren Faire north of Austin. We got a nice fellow who was running the wagon rental to take our pic:

(Yes, that's Eva asleep on Tom's head!)

Then we went to Bucca de Beppo for dinner (our favorite Italian Restaraunt)



We even got dessert free since it took so long to get our food - yes, this plate is HUGE!!!



After we order the dessert plate, the table full of real Italians (there were about 12 of them all speaking Italian very loudly and waving their arms around) ordered one too!

We came back on Sunday and stayed the night in the Walmart parking lot in Jacksonville, AR. I had read on an RV site that not all Walmarts but most will let RVs park overnight. This lot even had a security guard on duty!