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Re: Firearms in RV's
When I first arrived in Texas while full time rving in my travel trailer, my Texas municipal cop friend informed me that even as I carried an Illinois drivers license I was still in compliance with the law in keeping a loaded handgun in my glove box. Since then I've become a resident of Texas and currently travel with multiple firearms in my trailer one reason being we have no other home. As many of us can say we've camped in some remote places and I refuse to be a victim under any circumstance. I'm no fanatic by any means but if you are a law abiding citizen and are concerned with the safety of you and yours then you may want to consider bringing it. I'd hate to be in a situation that I needed my firearm for protection and left it at home as a paperweight on my desk. I've since obtained my ccl from Texas so rest a bit more comfortably.331Views0likes0CommentsRe: Ruidoso or Cloudcroft, NM for a needed break?
More to offer as far as amenities in Ruidoso. Awesome dry camping around cloudcroft but Ruidoso has more restaurants, casino etc. Red River new Mexico is awesome too but you may also be stuck dry camping as full hook up rv spaces may be booked. My problem at is that above 6700 ft above sea level I have a hard time breathing. Ruidoso is close to that..cloudcroft around 9000 I think and red river 8700.576Views0likes0CommentsRe: Chicago, IL to Port Isabel.
Wife and I left that dreaded state of Illinois 3 years ago to begin our full time adventures. We eventually ended up in Port Aransas TX which is just north of North Padre island on mustang island. Never made it down to south Padre where you are going but heard good things. Anyway as far as the journey I just drove back up here to the Midwest and currently in Michigan but heading back through the suburbs of Chicago in a month or so. I would catch I57 heading south at some point and avoid St Louis and reconnect with 55 into Arkansas to I40 but I will say that the stretch of road between west Memphis and little rock is horrible. It was bad 3 years ago when I was heading south and still bad 2 months ago coming back up. Once past little rock it really is a nice drive into Texarkana. Degray lake state park is in there and really nice camping. Bypassing Dallas to the south onto the infamous 35 corridor is a serious road from Hillsboro through San Antonio. The construction is everywhere and narrow lanes and the combination of high speed limits and truckers that will let you know they own the road. I pull a 39' tt and a few times almost got clipped by some big rigs passing in a construction zone with shifting lanes so had quite a few white knuckle moments. You're good to go once past San Antonio and someone above mentioned that bypass toll road but I'm not familiar with it however I know people like it. As far as taking the back roads through Texas one thing to consider is that many of those roads are two lanes with high speed semi truck traffic either coming at you or riding you're bumper because you're not driving 75. A lot of oil field truck traffic and some are rough so you have to decide where you are more comfortable. Sorry for the essay230Views0likes0Comments
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