Our time came to leave South Padre Island but before I talk about what we are doing now I forgot to mention the neat kite festival held annually there. The first day of the festival was cancelled due to unseasonably cold temperatures and excessive winds.
The next day the festival began at the convention center on the bay flats adjacent to it. It was still a chilly day but at least the sun was out. We didn’t actually go to the festival, per se, but I did park in the convention center parking lot and took photos of the various interesting kites. Photos in today’s blog are from that event.
We left Isla Blanca Park March 1st on a nice sunny day and made our way over the causeway through the many small towns which are continuously connected together. It seemed as though every 5 miles or so we would see a name change for each new town. Eventually we arrived at our next stop in Alamo, Texas.
Casa Del Valle RV Resort in Alamo Texas will be home to us until April 26th. We found this park after we decided to cancel our 3rd month at Isla Blanca because the site we would have had to move to was totally unacceptable to us. It cost $50.00 to cancel which never makes us happy so we looked for a value location to replace the month we cancelled.
Lucky for us Casa Del Valle RV Resort, which is part of a larger group or RV parks, had a monthly special for first time visitors. As a new visitor the price for one month is only $199.00 making our cost $249 for the stay when adding in our cancelation fee. This will end up in a savings of about $350 over the costs we would have spent to stay on the island in an undesirable site.
With the price of diesel skyrocketing we will need these savings to offset some of our fuel costs as we head east. It sure is sad to see what is going on in Ukraine and hard to watch the daily destruction going on there. Paying more for fuel is a small price to pay if it causes Russia discomfort as well. Hopefully, this will all end sooner than later.
NOTE: We are currently in Alamo TX until April 27th…
