Cuero Texas was wonderful. We were welcomed to free camp in a beautiful municipal park that had everything-a pool, fishing and paddle boat pond, golfing,, volleyball, basketball...you name it...and I met these two wonderful ladies Nannette and Tammy who made it and even more enjoyable time. Nannette suggested we visit Rockport and we intended to until the last minute when we started calculating our time...now I will explain a bit later why we should have taken Nannette's advice afterall...
If I had any complaints at all about Cuero it would be that the tent camping is up on a knoll that has NO Shade but to be honest I'm not sure where else they could put us and....it is free, and near the restrooms and pool and walmart and a Valero (VP type) and we didn't get in there til day break...if you haven't been to Texas this time of year, let me explain this to you, shortly after daybreak it gets HOT...VERY HOT. So our first day we went and got a really really cheap hotel room to get some sleep. People were nice enough and I met another very nice young mommy named Michelle. (( thought I posted her pic too...if it doesn't show up I will try to remember to post it again) She was there for to visit her husband for his first Father's Day. I believe she said he works in the Oil Fields...so Happy First Father's Day to Michelle's Hubby! You have one very Handsome young man there! and a wonderful wife!
Shawn became addicted to the slides...they didn't get me on them til later in the day. (Okay...I will admit they were a blast!)
Now...back to why we should have gone to Rockport...and why GOOGLE MAPS SUCK!!!!!! As always our final day came and we had to pack up and head out of Cuero. We are heading down hwy 98 in the blistering sun/heat when "nora the navigator" as we affectionately call her tells us to back up and turn right on a road called Verhell Rd and to take it for 6.5 miles to I think it was CR 110. Then the problems began...first the road turned into a soft thick gravel (with hills) and second there were NO roads off of this road...no CR 110...no anything ...just beautiful rolling land on all sides...no houses, no gas stations, restrooms, restaraunts,....ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I'm still not sure if it was Heaven or Hell. We determined it was the road that never ends. Eventually we called Edna Sherriff's Dept and a nice dispatcher by the name of Jennifer helped us patiently (several times) and sent out some help to find us. Eventually Officer (and our Cajun angel) Mike Meaux found us and led us out of the "hell" part of VerHELL. According to him they don't even like taking their vehicles down those roads they are so rough and he was very impressed with both our bents and us and had to laugh at our GPS which took us over 10 hours out of our way. (Ummmm...I failed to see the humor in that at the time! lol) THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH OFFICER MIKE MEAUX OF VICTORIA COUNTY SHERRIFS DEPT!!!!! Who also gave us permission to camp at a volunteer fire dept when we got out to hwy 77.
This isn't the end of this story though...oh no...He has asked us if we had enough supplies. Which at that time we did. What we didn't take into consideration was the remainder of the ride into Edna...the nearly 30 mile ride into Edna...and our only 4 bottles of liquid between us. We actually had to poor water out of our coolers (melted ice) to make it, stop at a church and find their outdoor water spicket and fill up Gatorade bottles....but we made it.
Now I'm going to turn this over to Shawn to see if he has anything to add that I have forgot and finish my lunch...my love to all...MamaBear45....
Also, the weather here permit's us to take a break as well and to get our blog updated some, when we can and if we're near a McDonald's or near a Wi-Fi hotspot... As of now, it is raining, which gave us the time to get this blog done... Our seat's will be a lil wet, but they will feel good compaired to it being hot without the comfort of the rain... this is Shawn Paul signing off and handing the laptop back to Lori. Have a great day and week everyone. Ttyl....
