I wrote this morning from El Paso, TX. Today we drove about 260 miles to Fort Stockton and checked into the Comanche Land RV Park. Not much to look at, but full hook-ups for just $16.
Here are some of the photos from the last few days:
The desert is a dangerous place—for Saguaros at Holt’s Shell station. These snakes are about 6 ft. tall!
Here we are parked in Cochise Terrace in Benson, AZ. And this is Don and Sharon’s beautiful spot.
Their RV just barely clears the top—glad I don’t have to back it in. But Sharon is an instructor for the RV Driving School—so she has the skills to manage the task!
It rained during the night and I got up early to take some photos of the clouds.
Texas Canyon with its beautiful rounded rock formations shaped by wind and water is one of my favorite spots along the I-10 corridor..
So many are perched precariously on top of each other, I don’t think I would like to be up there in a storm with strong winds! Watch out below!!
One of the reasons I didn’t get to post on Sunday afternoon is that we had a small maintenance item—well, actually a big one! When I pulled of I-10 for the Anthony Flying J, I noticed the car seemed to jerk when I stopped at the light—and again after fueling. Once we got to the American RV Park, Larry took a look and noticed the ball on the stinger was lose. As he had just tightened it the day before because it felt lose when we hooked up, we decided a visit to share some money with Camping World was in order! I mean, who wants to lose a car in downtown El Paso???
We picked up a new stinger and ball, but forgot that we had reversed it so it raised the ball, not dropped it two inches. Larry’s big tools to reverse the new one are in the storage locker in Antioch. Back in the car, back down the hill—return the first one and the only thing they had was a straight stinger with 3 different ball sizes. Bought that and new pins for the hitch and back to the campground to install. It is working great—and feels more stable than the old arrangement.
Once the work was done, I had to go do a load of laundry which took a while—so it was dark and almost bedtime before I could post. And I was just too tired at that point—off to bed!
RVing really is the art of adapting to new situations without a lot of cussing! Minor cussing allowed, but major cussing is reserved for medical issues—as they are the situations that really count in one’s life!
Junction, TX, is our destination for tomorrow.
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