Brian and Barbara RV'ing: Drifting thru Texas and on to Las Vegas

Especially when they mentioned that the nearby town of Muenster TX was having Octoberfest while we would be there!

We passed thru Muenster a couple of years back when we drove across to the East Coast and had fond memories of the town and the road it's on Rt 82, In and out-of-texas

Our friends Karen and Paul, who we met the first time we stayed in Casa Grande, have been work camping in Sanger TX for the summer. We found a KOA nearby and booked in for 3 nights.

Nice Elks Lodge near Sanger TX

It's such fun catching up with the news when you haven't seen someone for year or so. We spent a couple of pleasant evenings sitting outside and just talking.

On Sunday we all piled into their car and drove up to Muenster for the “October Fest” Luckily it was in a large purpose built building because the weather had turned really cold. So much so that we disconnected the water hose on Saturday night to stop it freezing, and got out the big warm bedspread.

We sampled some beers and some German food, Paul and Karen are good dancers and as soon as they walked in and heard the band playing they were on the dance floor.

Karen and Paul tearing up the dance floor again.

There were lots of booths selling trinkets, food and snacks, I bumped into a couple of people in the food line and we were soon talking full timing and travel.

After a winery tour and a last dinner together, it was time to move on, so reluctantly we packed up the rig and headed West. We'll see Karen and Paul again in Casa Grande at Christmas.

Not good at these night time selfies!

Being the “No Plan Kids” we had a quiet, slow trip down Rt 82 in mind with stops in Wichita Falls and Lubbock. Then winds of change blew and instead we ended up in Abilene! Can't really say why, except Wichita Falls was too close and Lubbock to far away!

We had seen on FB that our Aussie friends Mike and Lynne were back in the US after a couple of months back home. We called them up to find out how they are doing and where they're planning on going next. It sounds like they did well storing their RV in Bakersfield during the summer and now they are headed towards Nevada and Utah, they thought we might get together in Arizona sometime, and apparently Fred and Judy are planning a trip out that way too so we better practice our “Mexican Train” and “Farkle” skills!

When they mentioned they were going to Las Vegas we sent them details of an RV Rally being put on by the Shanty Shaker RV club. They thought that might be fun and signed up for it.

Somehow the winds of change have decided to blow us in some decidedly different directions because after Abilene we just kept going and going. In a couple of days, instead of the intended week or so, we were in Casa Grande AZ and camped at our winter quarters for 2 days catching up with the news and playing darts!

Wondering what to do with the extra days we now had before heading to San Deigo we called our friends John and Debbie who live in Prescott AZ and got invited to stay with them. Prescott is about halfway to Las Vegas NV we thought. (actually it's only about 1/3 of the way!)

John and Debbie

We also decided to surprise Mike and Lynne plus our Shanty Shaker RV friends by going to the rally there! Boy we're even surprising OURSELVES now!

Las Vegas lights.

Well we really did surprise Mike an Lynne and they in turn surprised us because instead of 2 Aussies there were 4! Their friends John and Daryn showed up too.

Slot machines in the Las Vegas Albertson's supermarket!!

The Shanty Shakers were out in force for this one, almost 50 people which apparently is their biggest Rally yet. The bright lights of Las Vegas must have really tempted them. It was so good to meet all our old friends and make some more new ones. They had a busy schedule set with happy hour at 4pm (Naturally) and trips to the nearby casino buffet, a cruise on Lake Mead and much much more.