Houston

Today was a driving day, from Corpus Christi to Houston.
We are getting quicker at packing up and hitting the road! It really only takes 30 or 40 min., usually. Unless of course you get talking with some of the other campers! The lady in the next trailer, (a toy hauler, so besides the 5th wheel style living area, it has a sort of garage for their motorcycles, etc.) Sheila, has a little dog about Max's size. When we were packing up, she took Max to the dog park to play with her little Rufus. When they got back, we ended up talking .... this is part of what makes everything so enjoyable, but it also slows you down!
Quiet drive. Lots of open land and huge ranches until we got close to Houston. Sometimes there are long gaps between gas stations so you need to fill up when you see one!
We are now parked at the Kemah RV Resort in Kemah, a suburb on the southeast side of Houston, for a couple of days.
It was a cloudy day, so we didn't feel like we were losing any sun time in the car. We just got pulled in and set up here, and exactly 30 seconds later the rain started. It's supposed to rain thru the nite until about noon tomorrow.
While the previous park (Pioneer) was great for those who love the beach, it was a bit of a nuisance cuz the constant high wind blew the sand around a lot and things got a little gritty, and the breeze was always onshore so the air was never dry. Bathing suits hung outside in the evening were still wet in the morning, and your skin always felt a little clammy from the dampness.
Here, we're not by the water, and although the sites are quite small, there's a lot of trees and it promises to be very 'woodsy' when the rain stops and the sun comes out.
We met a few of the neighbours already. Since the park office is closed on Sunday, the fellow in the trailer next to us filled us in on a few of the "need to know" things, like how to get onto the internet. (Really interesting man, a marine vet) The fellow across from us helped Karl with positioning the trailer and then setup.  The park itself is "quaint" but clean and friendly. Hard to see much because of the on/off rain, but there is always tomorrow!
This gives us a chance to catch our breath and do some planning for the next few days and of course the next few weeks.  We still have a list of things we'd like to do, but there is time yet....
We aren't really heading home, but the road signs are starting to read north?!?! Not sure about this!?! First we'll just go east for a while.