Tuesday, 17 October – to U-Haul, Antoine Drive, Houston

Bit cool this morning, had to put the heat pump on for a while.  Used the camp showers over the road ‘cos my shower is so clean it sparkles!  The bathrooms here are new, lovely tile and the toilet cubicles are timber clad.  Very clean too!  Now a final load of towels in the washer and it’s breakfast time.  Just got enough cereal but Kim has to have toast today, he finished his cornflakes yesterday : (

We get on the road about 11.30am and have a stilted one hour drive down the I45 to North Houston, there are a couple of accident residues for us to manoeuvre around.  We get to U-Haul by 1.30 pm and it takes another 20 minutes to register!!  Meantime Kim is pumping up the tires and taking the Tyre Tracker thingies off.  We are in site 0069, same as last year!!  We park up with ply under the tyres, put jacks underneath to support the chassis and we are all done and dusted just after 3pm.  

Be good coach, see you next year!!
Good work, as Enterprise should be here before 4pm to pick us up to take us to sign up for our rental car for the two remaining days.  Well that is wishful thinking!  Eventually get to Enterprise around 5pm, take delivery of our nearly new (4,000 miles) Dodge People Mover (Grand Caravan) and head back to UHaul to load up our luggage and left over nibbles and drinks we might want at the hotel.

Then we make our way to the Airway Inn on Greens Road to check in for two nights.  Hmm, cheap is not always the best – but we make it home for a couple of days.

We can return the rental car to the airport for a $25 surcharge but then we have to man-handle our “heavy” bags onto the shuttle bus to take us to Departures.  Much better to return the rental to the local agency, then take advantage of the free shuttle from our hotel direct to the airport.  They have even offered to collect us from Enterprise so are offering great service.


We are pretty tired after our busy day so duck out to Burger King to get some takeout for dinner then call it an early night!

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