Day 15: Austin, TX

Stop 12:  Austin, TX

A shorter drive today (about 77 miles).  Just to complicate things, the address for our destination was ambiguous enough that our GPS and most of the internet mapping programs thought that it was about 20 mile beyond where it is.  So you can add another 40 miles through Austin downtown traffic into the mix.  GPS led us to a topless sports bar in North Austin and said "You have arrived".  A real "What do we do now?" moment.

We called the RV park and the woman in the office was new to the area.  Not much help.  I finally remembered that our Good Sam book probably had written directions.  Sure enough, the books directions started with our taking exit 227 from the I-35.  GPS had taken us to exit 245.  You better believe that Magellan heard from me this afternoon.  We have the new RV version that has the Good Sam database installed.  Obviously, no one checked it.

We also mentioned it to the RV park since, in our experience, when GPS system have difficulty with the addresses, they usually include driving directions in their confirmation emails.

Enough of that.  Having already done our downtown sightseeing with the trailer in-tow, we decided to take it easy this afternoon.  Kristen did some laundry while I ran to Home Depot for some trailer maintenance supplies.

To digress a little, this morning, while we were on our way to the wrong address, we passed a Texas Roadhouse.  We commented then that that sounded good for dinner.  After driving our extra 20 mile out and 20 miles back, I discovered on my Home Depot run that the restaurant that we saw this morning was just across the road.  We had dinner there this evening and were surprised to learn that this Texas Roadhouse is owned by Willie Nelson (apparently, he just owns the one).  The inside was kind of the Willie Nelson version of a Hard Rock Café (lots of Willie memorabilia on the walls).

The menu at this Texas Roadhouse included fried pickles.  We had never heard of those so, with our two older Grandchildren's love of pickles in mind, we had to order them.  They were very good.  If the Texas Roadhouse in MA has them, they are definitely worth ordering

Finally, our site.  This park is owned by the same people who owned the park in San Antonio and it is almost as nice.

-J-