Leaving Florida, on to Texas

We left Florida on Friday afternoon after my son got his learners permit, and we made it to Louisiana and stayed at a Wal-mart for the night. The next day we made it to Dallas for lunch and had to eat at an In-N-Out Burger. It was a pretty expensive stop after having to add three T-shirts to the receipt. 

We headed West for the rest of the afternoon until we had engine problems with our Explorer. We got off of the road and arranged for a tow to the next town, Ranger TX. We juggled the trailer around to the back of the RV and started driving the Bronco to an RV park in town but had to wait until Monday as everything was closed for the rest of the weekend. We got the news that the engine needed repairs that were out of the range of the small towns in the area so we called in the cavalry and my parents came down the next day with a car trailer to help us get to Colorado Springs where we could get it fixed right, and be more comfortable and visit with friends and family while the car was fixed. Long term plans for the car were to let my mother use it while we are road tripping and maybe give it to my son later, so we weren't planning on selling it yet.

Our trip from Ranger TX to Colorado Springs went well. We were now a motor home pulling a U-haul trailer, a large truck pulling Our Explorer on a trailer, and driving our Bronco, which only had 1700 miles on it since getting it rebuilt and now it was getting the ultimate test. Thankfully it did OK. We took it slowly the first day only averaging 55mph as we were learning it's highway characteristics. The next we averaged 65 and could go higher in a pinch but the wind was really blowing the lightweight Bronco, and the RV around most of the day but we made it to Colorado Springs in the late afternoon and were able to setup camp with daylight at the Airforce Academy.

Whew, what a trip.

Mom driving the RV as Dad was now driving the Bronco.