Be Careful!! Mathis, TX is NOT a great area to be in.
Let me start from the beginning. We (my aunt and uncle, my husband and his nephew) drove from New Jersey to Texas. It was for the most part a peaceful drive--we would stop every 1-2 hours so my aunt and husband could take a break. Both suffer from health problems. After driving for 10+ hours a day, we would stop at a hotel along the way to spend the night. I do NOT recommend staying at ANY Days Inn hotels in ANY state. We stayed at three Days Inns in different states, and all of them were horrible.
On day 4, we arrived in Texas. Since we were a day early, we decided to visit Corpus Christie so my aunt could see the ocean (Gulf of
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Let me start from the beginning. We (my aunt and uncle, my husband and his nephew) drove from New Jersey to Texas. It was for the most part a peaceful drive--we would stop every 1-2 hours so my aunt and husband could take a break. Both suffer from health problems. After driving for 10+ hours a day, we would stop at a hotel along the way to spend the night. I do NOT recommend staying at ANY Days Inn hotels in ANY state. We stayed at three Days Inns in different states, and all of them were horrible.
On day 4, we arrived in Texas. Since we were a day early, we decided to visit Corpus Christie so my aunt could see the ocean (Gulf of Mexico). From there, we headed north. We were to drop the men off at George West, TX, for a hunting trip, and we ladies were going to explore Texas for the next five days with no particular destination. Since we arrived a day early, we contacted the hunting ranch, and they told us to stay at a local motel just 20 minutes south of George West in Mathis, TX.
We went to sleep and the next morning got up to discover that we had been robbed. The trailer attached to our vehicle was broken into. How they did it without making any noise or waking us up is beyond me. They must have been professionals. Well, needless to say, once we dropped the men off in George West, we didn’t look back. We drove 90 minutes north and spent the rest of our time in beautiful San Antonio. For the return trip home, we avoided Mathis like the plague.
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