Arrived at Fort Stockton, Texas

Yesterday was a long day, drove from Kerrville, Texas to Fort Stockton, Texas - a distance of only 245 miles but forgot about the notorious west Texas wind.  Slammed us as soon as we got on Interstate 10, on our nose for a while then shifted to our right side (coming from the north to south direction) and every now and then would get a gust and we would be fighting to keep the RV in line.

Lots of these - did not see ranches or cattle

Nice rolling hills - no traffic!

Another Chimney Rock??

Took us about 80 miles to finally get out of the Hill Country which meant while we were in it we were up and down.  Not steep hills, just enough that the RV's engine would start whining, then over the hill and down we go.  What was surprising - hardly any traffic on the road AT ALL.  We were really on an interstate by ourselves.  Not complaining, just have never experienced that. And we never expected to see 80 miles an hour for the speed limit.  Wow.  And people were doing faster than that!

Yep - 80 mph!!!

Wind farms galore

Did I mention that Texas is a big state?  Really big.  And once we got out of hill country, flat.  Lots of wind farms along the way, and many farms had their own wind mill going, which meant there had to be cattle in the area but saw so few??

We were thinking of only staying here a couple of days, then picking up and head south to Big Bend National Park, on the border of Mexico, but have decided to just leave the RV here and drive the car south to visit.  So today I extended our visit to this Saturday, going to go to Big Bend tomorrow then plan to visit Historic Fort Stockton.  Our only commitment now is to be back in Picacho by the 29th when Dave has a check up at the doctor.