Sept. 11 Day 21

We have been watching IKE and it looks like it will hit mostly in Texas and then travel north or north east. We found a half price campground in Texarkana and when we got to the area, it was really bad. Run down houses, closed businesses, 3 RR tracks close, just not where we would feel comfortable. It was Sterling Crest camp ground, so it came off of our list of places to stay. We found a Wal-Mart on Stateline road and spent the night. It was hot so we used the generator until after dark when it cooled off. We had some internet so we got that caught up but could nto stay on very long at a time as the signal was weak. We watched the hurricane news and called our friend in Houston and she said not to come that way as they were evacuating a lot of people. After watching the weather we decided to head west as far as we could as the storm was expected to travel east toward Arkansas and then up the Ohio valley. So we decided to head west as far as we could go the next day.