January 15 post: We departed Corpus yesterday morning about 9:30 am and traveled mostly the infamous FM (farm to market) roads to Del Rio where we are presently. It rained most of the day while driving and the roads were less than desirable. Lots of rough surfaces with ups and downs with a few stretches of smooth road. Every few miles the road surface is muddy where farm trucks coming from mud/dirt back roads enter the roadway. Our truck and trailer are both muddy as if we'd been off-roading and mud-bogging all day. The RV Park at Laughlin AFB has a "no washing vehicles" policy so I guess I'll live with the muddy (used to be white) truck and trailer until another day.
We arrived at Laughlin AFB around 3:30 pm and found a nice but small RV Park where I previously made reservations for two nights. The spaces are wide paved pull throughs that aren't exactly level with wind fences on both sides. No WiFi, the MiFi doesn't connect here, and my phone can't connect to the internet either (I do have cellular phone service, however). All in all, $15 a night isn't bad for what is available. Bummer about no internet, though. The learning point here is that I've grown to rely on daily communications via internet. At the moment we're in one of the only WiFi locations on base, a nice little coffee shop next to the base exchange. The RV park does have a good cable TV system with about 150 channels and a free laundry that's several blocks from the park near the commissary.
Today is our wedding anniversary so we've planned to spend some time in town checking it out, visiting a local winery, and having dinner to celebrate. We'll ask around the base about the risk level of crossing over into Mexico for some shopping. Generally it's my impression that this area is much safer than some of the other boarder towns such as Juarez.
We,ll try to add a few pictures here along the way. DRW
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