Padre Island National Seashore

On Feb 1, 2017 we took a winter trip to the beach at Padre Island on the gulf of south Texas.  This national seashore allows camping right on the beach.

Motorhome Parked on the beach of

Padre Island National Seashore

Motorhome Parked on the beach of
Padre Island National Seashore

Padre Island has a wonderful visitors center and a campground with hookups that caters to snowbirds from the north who spend a few winter months in a warmer climate on the beach.  The national seashore includes about 30 miles of beach with hard packed sand that makes for great bike riding.  Liz and I spent a couple of days biking down the beach and exploring all the sights and sounds along the seashore.

Padre Island Campground

Visitors Center at Padre Island

Sunrise over the gulf of Mexico

On our way back home we stopped in San Antonio and spent a night at Topher & My's house.  We spent the next night in Cabela's RV parking lot in Allen before going home.  The next morning we discovered that our 25 ft slide out was stuck and would not slide in.  We had to call emergency service and they sent a technician who brought in the slide using the manual over-ride.  As it turned out, this was the beginning of a 3 month ordeal of taking the RV in for slide repairs multiple times and waiting weeks each time for the right parts to be shipped to the repair shop.  In the end, the slide rails, gears and motors all had to be replaced.  We finally got the repaired RV back in June and the slide has been working properly since then (fingers crossed).