D'Hanis and Del Rio, Texas

We arrived in D'Hanis, Texas on Thursday afternoon and stayed two nights.  We went from a view of the bay to this.  We stayed in a place called Quiet Texas RV Park and they had good accommodations for our size.  When we stop for just a couple night stays, it is hard to find parks that are away from either road noise or trains - this one had lots of train noise.  We loved the customer service here, the owner called us within an hour of our arrival to make sure everything was satisfactory and then stopped by and introduced himself within a couple of hours.  Also got a visit by the new park host, to make sure everything was going well.  Great customer service!!
























We celebrated  Valentines Day one night early at a Steakhouse Saloon that was near the park.  Luckily we were able to have a great bottle of wine, one of our favorites from Walla Walla.  This Saloon does not have a liquor license so it's bring your own bottle.  No corking fee.   They had live music and even though it was a very simple place, we enjoyed the casual cowboy atmosphere.






On Saturday we traveled to Del Rio.  We arrived in their newest RV Park called Broke Mills RV Park.  Here we had highway noise that was pretty noisy, but after a day or so, we kinda of got use to it.  Again, very nice RV park and the sites were very long.

The first day trip out we went to Amistad National Recreation area.  The water was down about 30 feet, but the views were great.  We went to the Amistad Dam which is shared by Mexico and USA on the Rio Grande river.  We did not go all the way across the dam to the Mexico port of entry, but we did walk onto the Mexico side, but when we came back across the dam, we had to go through a Port of Entry for the US.  Found out that we had not signed our passports as this was the first time we actually used them.  No concerns, the officer just told us to get them signed.

Rio Grande River coming into Da

Anytime we went west from the campground, we had to go through Inspection stations, to include having the dogs search the outsides of both the motorhome, trailer and Explorer when we left to go north.  Every 5th car we saw in the area was border Patrol, and we saw them in action with helicopters, stopped cars, driving and dragging the dirt roads to make them smooth.

















Our second outing was up to Langtry, Texas to see the Judge Roy Bean exhibits.

                                    

The caves were used by Indians for shelter and hideouts.  

Prior to leaving we went into Del Rio to explore the Whitehead Memorial museum and visited the oldest winery in Texas called Val Verde Winery which opened in 1883.  They had some really good wine.  The Whitehead Museum had buildings from1871 where the Perry family lived, and one of the first two story buildings in the area.

The "girls" still seem to enjoy the motorhome lifestyle - here is Kyna telling us that she is ready for bed.

We left on Wednesday to head towards the Big Bend National Park.