A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 346 miles from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana.
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Travel from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana
We drove our coach 346 miles, about six hours of driving, from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Following our coach to the dump station, where we toaded up:
Galveston Island coast:
Galveston Island sign:
Super scenic refinery:
Fred Hartman Bridge by Galveston Bay:
Entering I-10 East:
Rest area:
Back to I-10, with Paladin on the dash:
Entering Louisiana:
Another rest area:
Paladin in his tower box laying on the bed:
Food trucks:
Overturned big rig, probably going too fast in the rain:
Paladin asleep:
Rain:
Yet another rest area:
Bridge over the Mississippi River; it always feels like a momentous milestone to cross this river, the divider between the more spacious west side of the country, and the crowded east side:
A truck with a blown tire:
Large crest on the road in the turn towards the park:
Narrow road to the park:
Free-range chickens and ducks:
Arriving at Tickfaw State Park:
Arriving at our site:
Galveston Island State Park
We stayed at Galveston Island State Park in Galveston, Texas. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A nice waterfront state park. We had the best site, with nobody other than some tent sites between us and the gulf.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-12-01
- Check out: 2024-12-08
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Lots of wind, some rainy days, some partly cloudy
- High temps 62-72°F, lows 56-64°F
- Daily wind, gusts to 24 MPH
Noise:
- Little road noise
- No train horn noise
- Occasional helicopters going over
- Little neighbor noise
Site:
- #60, back-in, concrete
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
- Mostly level site; high in front; used hydraulic leveling
- Concrete driveway about 60 feet long by 12 feet wide
- 22 feet to neighbor on driver side, offset
- 80 feet to tent pad on passenger side
- Separation between sites: just grass, and a little slope on passenger side
- Picnic table on covered 16 by 16 feet concrete patio
- Fire pit
- No trees
- Mostly clean site
- Elevation 10 feet, front facing due East
- Beach view
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 60 PSI water, conveniently located
- No sewer connection
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 160 Mbps down, 30 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- AT&T: 120-130 Mbps down, 24 Mbps up, 36 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Beach
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Beautiful beachside camping
This is a beautiful state park campground with nice, large sites and easy access to the beach. The concrete pad was mostly level (just a bit high in the front). The covered patio area had plenty of room for tables and chairs, with hooks on the supports for hanging a hammock or windbreak. There are no sewer connections in the campground, but the dump station is very conveniently located on the way out of the park. We camped at Galveston Island State Park in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
View of the gulf out or side window:
Neighboring site:
Tent sites, mostly empty — unsurprisingly for winter — though the second one was occupied the whole time:
Bathrooms:
Noticeboard:
Surf conditions sign:
Path to the beach:
We’d be happy to stay here again.
Video: San Antonio to Galveston, Texas motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 249 miles from San Antonio to Galveston, Texas.
Travel from San Antonio to Galveston, Texas
We drove our coach 249 miles, about four hours of driving, from San Antonio, Texas to Galveston, Texas.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Paladin on the dash while leaving the RV park:
Frontage road to I-10 East:
Buc-ees:
I was amused by the name Flatonia, approapriate for Texas:
Motorhome and T@B trailer:
Rest area:
Several vehicles cutting across from the freeway to a frontage road to avoid traffic… which didn’t really work out for them, as the freeway traffic eased up after roadworks, and there wasn’t an entrance back onto the freeway for a while:
Roadworks:
A rather interesting name caught my eye on the map: “Mario’s Flying Pizza Airport”:
The GPS was going insane, thinking we were not on the freeway:
Multiple overpasses outside Houston:
Evil-looking building in Houston:
Downtown Houston:
Bridge to Galveston Island:
Reached the gulf coast:
Creepy-looking clouds:
Galveston Island State Park entrance:
Entrance station:
Our site:
Our coach arriving at our site:
Humidifier and water distiller
Back to our regularly scheduled blog posts, with RV modifications on Mondays, travel on Tuesdays, campgrounds on Wednesdays, and attractions on Thursdays and Fridays.
When staying in deserts or other places with low humidity, we use a humidifier to make us more comfortable. It lives on our bathroom counter (or stored in the closet when in more humid places):
It is important to only use distilled water with the humidifier, to avoid greasy steam. For a long while we purchased jugs of distilled water from grocery stores, but that gets expensive and a hassle after a while.
So we later bought a water distiller to take tap water and distill it:
We fill this with tap water, and it effectively boils it and captures the evaporation as distilled water, dripping it into a jug, that we can then pour into the humidifier. It takes about three hours to make a jug of water, but it has a timer to turn it off when it’s done, leaving a little water in the bottom to make it easier to clean up. One jug per day is enough to be able to keep the humidifier running all day.
We’d rather be in places with a comfortable level of humidity, but we do enjoy deserts, and would rather too low humidity than too high (and yes, we do have a dehumidifier for such places too). It’s good to have tools to be able to make such places more comfortable.
Video: 2021-2024 motorhome travel timelapses in less than a minute!
Yesterday I posted a 17 minute video with all of our motorhome travel from 2021 to 2024. But who has time for a 17 minute video? For total ridiculousness, here’s the same video sped up 20 times (with different music, to avoid chipmunk squeals), taking less than one minute.
Video: 2021-2024 motorhome travel timelapses in 17 minutes!
Was the 2024 timelapses video not fast enough for you? Hey, I understand; 50 minutes is quite long, even at 20x the original timelapses speed.
This video combines the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 timelapse videos, and makes them eight times faster (i.e. 160 times faster than original timelapses), so you can see about 20k miles of motorhome travel in about 17 minutes!
Chapters:
00:00 2021 travel
00:52 2022 travel
05:41 2023 travel
10:44 2024 travel
About Sinclair Trails:
The travels of David and Jennifer Sinclair around the US, full-timing in their 40-foot 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP luxury motorhome.
We post timelapse videos of our travel days on YouTube, typically on Tuesdays.
On the Sinclair Trails blog, we post about RV modifications on Mondays, travel on Tuesdays, campgrounds and RV parks on Wednesdays, and exploring national parks and other parks and attractions on Thursdays and Fridays.
2024 stickers
On the passenger-side slide-out, we have a large sticker with the Sinclair Trails logo, a map of the US showing the states we’re visited, a QR code for the website, and stickers with the SinclairTrails.com domain name and @SinclairTrails social handle:
The states sticker consists of separate stickers for each state, applied to a base sticker. Our rule is that we have to have done something in a state for it to count (e.g. camp, eat in a restaurant, or explore something, not just driving through). Once we have done something in a new state, we add its sticker. So far, we’ve visited 38 of the 50 states:
We’ll want to replace these stickers at some point; the earlier ones are looking very faded. We’ll probably get new stickers that include Canada when we visit Alaska, since we’ll likely drive through part of Canada to get there.
Visiting Alaska is going to be a major project. And of course we can’t take our motorhome to Hawaii, but we’ll count that when we next visit there.
On the driver-side slide-out of the coach, we have stickers for each of the National Parks we have visited, that being another of the goals in our travels. We visited 12 more parks in 2024 (plus revisited several), so have visited 47 of the 63 parks; still a bunch to go:
Of course, we’ve also visited numerous National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and other classifications. With 433 units of various types in the National Park System, not to mention parks administered by states, forest services, etc, we had to cap the memorializing of them somewhere! National Parks are the goal; others are gravy.
However, inside our coach we have a framed board with a wooden map of the US, around which we add stickers and pins for any kind of attraction we visit (we prefer stickers, but tend to get pins, as they are smaller). It’s populated a bit more since 2023 and 2022, though still lots of space for future attractions:
The wooden map has pins for states we’ve visited; the pins feature the state flags:
Fun memorabilia.
2024 special posts
While most of the posts on this blog are about modifications, travel, campgrounds, and attractions, I sometimes post about other topics. This is a summary of those posts from 2024. (See also those from 2023 and those from 2022.) These posts have the special category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).
As with previous summaries, for each I include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture; see the post for details.
Third anniversary of buying our motorhome, with an updated tour of the interior:
U-Haul to move stuff from a storage unit to a shed:
ENGWE Y600 830W electric scooter:
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