We were leaving Livingston, TX right after Christmas to travel to Quartzsite, AZ, for a few months in the desert sun. As with most of our plans, they were firm when we made them. However, like most of our plans, they were subject to change at a whim.
Our whim was the fact the weather was warm and dry across Texas. Why wait for rain or snow on our route? Why not just finish loading and head out when we were ready? No reason to not go. So, Sunday morning, we hooked up the loaded car to the loaded truck and camper and headed west.
We spent Sunday night at an attractive Texas rest stop between Luling and Seguin, TX. A freebie night! The weather was warm, the place was clean and had video cameras for safety.
I have previously mentioned we see some unusual things on our travels….this trailer was parked in the rest stop.
See Larry standing next to it? It doesn’t look too big, does it?
The young man working at the rest stop didn’t know what this was…but we did. Remember the windmills we saw last May? This is the little box behind the windmill blades.
This is one of those little boxes--that hangs behind the blades on the windmills—and it’s headed for the Palm Springs, CA, wind farm. Little? However, it brought up another question. We see these containers on the freeways and we see trucks with long trailers hauling one blade at a time, but we haven’t seen the part that attaches the blades to the this box? Have you see one? I wonder what it looks like????
The following day, we cleared San Antonio, TX early in the morning. As we crossed the scenic Hill Country on Interstate 10, we noticed the temperature outside climbing. By 2 p.m., we gave up and turned on the air conditioner—it was 85 degrees outside on Dec. 20th.
We stopped in Fort Stockton, TX at Parkview RV Park, a Passport America park; it was just $10 for a full hookup site.
Today we crossed El Paso, TX at lunch time and found ourselves in heavy traffic. I would hate to see their rush hour traffic. We continued west to Deming, NM. We are at Escapees Dream Catcher Park. It turned out to be the most expensive night so far--$17.00. I did take the opportunity to do a load of laundry and we will be running the heater tonight. It is supposed to get into the high 30s during the night.
We are going to run into rain tomorrow which may derail our travel plans. We had hoped to make Gila Bend and then Quartzsite, AZ the following day. Instead, if the rain isn’t too heavy, we will probably spend the night at the Casa Grande Elk’s Club.
Stay tuned for the adventures of the shoe box bumping across the U.S.
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