Arrived safely in Baytown, Texas, where it is 99 degrees with real feel of 114 degrees due to high humidity.  Feels awful.  The bayou area was bad but this is a near desert.  We are in a "resort" that is actually a virtual stalag with hundreds of RVs jammed together within a fenced in area with locked gates.  It is clean and neat, but huge and impersonal.  People do not even return a hello as you walk by.  There was no sign when we entered to tell where to drive to for check in.  We leave tomorrow morning, thankfully.

The "resort" tells you to deposit bags of household garbage in "blue bins (dumpsters) conveniently distributed throughout the park," but in actuality there are a few large blue dumpsters at the entrance to the park, very inconveniently located a couple hundred yards from our site.  Fortunately, a very kind couple along my long walk in this oppressive heat offered to take me the rest of the way and back to my site in their rented golf cart.  The rental of golf carts and storage sheds is the management's preoccupation, and the signs at the entrance are rental offers instead of the usual helpful signs directing you to the office for check in, as every other park has done.

The drive out here on I-12 and I-10 was on some of the worst interstate highway I have ever seen.  Louisiana traveling west into Lafayette was terrible, but so was Texas around Beaumont.  The speed limit increased to 75 mph through that part of Texas, then dropped down to 65 a few miles out of Beaumont.  Then varied from 55 to 70 back and forth.  All this on a federally funded interstate highway.

Love bugs were a problem all the way.  When the sun goes down I shall try for the second time today to get them off the motorhome.  We were saying to each other that a better way to do this trip would be to head north out of Florida until we got to cooler weather, then turn west, cycle down the west and return home along the southern route in October when the weather here hopefully would be cooler.

Mont Belvieu RV Resort

Very Crowded Hundreds of RVs in this "resort"

We are in slot #253 out of 255 total slots in this giant "resort"