Wow! Stop #10 of 42 already! We departed College Station TX this morning at 0853 hrs and believe me it was a short night. We had torrential rain with almost 5.5 inches falling between 1700 hrs yesterday and 0100 hrs this morning. The weather alerts went off with flash flood warnings. WE opened the door and glanced out a couple times and it looked like a river running through the campground. So we were not sure what the campground was going to look like this morning when we got up, but all that rain either soaked in or drained off somewhere. We had some puddles, but we were able to hook up and get out of there without any issues.
The trip up to Mineola was fairly uneventful, except there is no direct shot up there. We had quite a bit of two lane roads and even had about a mile of wet, mucky dirt/gravel where the pavement had been removed and they were preparing to resurface the road. But that did not last long, luckily. We rolled into Mineola Civic Center RV Park in Mineola TX at 1237 hrs after traveling 187 miles today. The rally crew had to make a couple adjustments because the site(s) we were to go in were occupied, but we quickly got parked and set-up.
The Mineola Civic Center RV Park is laid out uniquely, The sites are primarily in a circle and they are doubled up. The sites closest to the road are paved. The sites on the outside of those are in the grass. Needless to say, depending on where you are parked you may need quite a bit of sewer hose, power cord and water hose. Every other site faces the opposite direction also, so your doors may face your neighbors. So things are a bit snug here, but we are camping with a huge gathering of friends, so all is well. Our site is circled in red. We are nose-in which puts our door facing the open grassy field, so perfect! Liberty has lots of burr-free grass!
This will fill up as a total of about 60 coaches arrive in the next couple days
Our coach from the street - notice how it is nose-in
Our coach, door side
The Texas Alliance Rally does not start until Wednesday, so arriving on Monday gives us time to socialize with our friends and get caught up with them and their travels. We will also be helping others with repairs and likely helping with some stainless steel slide ski installation. I completed one repair on my coach this afternoon, replacing a warranty water solenoid on my Delta Touch2O kitchen faucet. I will also likely install a T-brace modification to prevent rear wall separation that has occurred on some coaches.
The defective solenoid on my Delta faucet
Once the rally starts things will get pretty busy. They have various events planned for each day, many of them occurring in the Civic Center building. This is really a nice location for an event like this. plus we have a good shelter location in the event of inclement weather.
Entrance to the Mineola Civic Center Building
Stats: This is campground #10 of 42
# States Traveled Through So Far This Trip, in order: 5 (IA, MO, KS, OK, TX)
# States left to visit on this trip: 27 (AR, MO, IL IN, OH, PA, NY, VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, NY, PA, MD, WV, VA, NC, TN, AL, MS, LA, TX, OK, AR, MO, IA)
Baseball Parks Visited So Far This Trip: 2 (Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Oklahoma City OK; Texas A&M Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park)
Lighthouses visited: 0
Lighthouses climbed: 0
Point to point travel miles: 2100 miles
- Avg point to point travel miles between campgrounds: 175 miles
Vicinity miles: 617 miles
- Avg vicinity miles: 62 miles
Total miles driven: 2717 miles
Total point to point driving time: 42 hrs 46 minutes
Total diesel fuel purchased: 287.829 gals
Total diesel fuel cost: $1019.03
Average diesel fuel cost/gal: $3.606
Max diesel fuel cost: $3.899 (Bradt TX)
Min diesel fuel cost: $3.179 (Corpus Christi NAS TX)
Avg MPG: 10.60 miles/gal
Cost/mi of operation: $0.35
# Nights at end of this stay: 52 (Includes Griff's start)
Total lodging cost: $1438.87 (includes Griff's start)
Average cost/night: $27.67
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