This is how we happened to have adventures in Yoakum an This is how we happened to have adventures in Yoakum and Shiner. It seems like hurricanes affect what we do and where we go a lot these days, doesn’t it? Well, for our last storm, Beta, we took our RV out to Yoakum to a storage facility as a precaution in case of a high storm surge in our driveway where the RV was parked. (We really need to come up with a name for this RV!) We chose Yoakum, Texas, which is over two and a half hours from home because we planned to explore that area when we picked it up d Shiner. It For our last storm, we took our RV to Yoakum to a storage facility as a precaution. We chose Yoakum, Texas, which is over two and a half hours from home because we planned to explore that area when we picked it up.