October 8--West Texas

We woke up early to a beautiful morning and started off in 56 degrees under clear skies. Made it in short order to San Antonio, Tx. Kathy took over driving (her first time on the bike pulling the trailer with ‘two up’). She handled all 1,600 pounds of us just great! West Texas turned out to quite pretty but it was a long 500 plus mile day broken by some great BBQ at Coopers BBQ in Junction, Texas. Don’t miss eating at Coopers if you have a reason to be going East/West on Hwy 10 between El Paso and San Antonio. But then, why would you ever be there?

We decided we still ‘had legs’ when we drove into Sonora (Steve had taken back the driving) so decided to make an extra couple of hundred miles and make it to Fort Stockton before settling in for the night.

As we moved west across Texas, the topography got flatter and flatter, and windier and windier. I was thinking they should be putting up wind generators, and voila! I began to see them. First a few, then thousands of them! Obviously there were many that were not visible from the freeway, but just the ones we could see were certainly all rotating in the wind.

Fort Stockton appears to us to be Rock Springs moved to West Texas. If you know Rock Springs then you’ll appreciate just how ‘stimulating’ this culturally deprived place is to us. If you’ve never been to either Rock Springs or Fort Stockton, you really don’t need to put it on your must visit list. They also charge an arm and a leg for a room in Ft. Stockton, I think mainly because of all the oil work going on. The RV parks (they had 7 of them) were particularly unappealing so we got the best deal we could find and settled in.

Tomorrow, on to San Antonio, New Mexico to spend the night with our good friends Jim and Jana. ‘(only 383 miles)