Stuff Done, Buddy RV Sick

Relatively easy to get the car and RV inspected.  Local car dealer less than a 1/4 mile from us performed what ever they do to get the certification.  We are confused still about the new Texas inspection/certification laws - will have to do further checking before next year.

The move to take in the RV was a little more of a hassle especially since we had to close up, pack up, and drive there and that meant poor Buddy got so stressed out that he got sick.  Luckily I put down plastic in the bedroom where he stays when we travel.  This little jaunt was pretty pitiful for him.  He did not recoup as fast - was pretty uneasy for hours afterward.  We will have to limp along with him getting sick until we get back to AZ and get him to the vet to see what he thinks.  I have gotten a 'cat whisperer' recommendation and will pursue that also this winter.  Just don't know why he gets so stressed out.  Gracie does just fine.

Buddy hunkered down under window with Grace as his blankie, 

We did get out yesterday to see what there was to see - not much.  Made it all the way to Texline which is a town on the border with Texas and New Mexico.  A bust - wide open nothingness.
Back in Dalhart we went to their city park to walk around - nice but by then we just gave up and went back to the RV.  Almost stepped on a snake - a diamondback water snake and it was a baby, only about 16 inches long.  Full grown can be 6 1/2 feet long.  Nonvenomous.  Thank goodness.  Only wildlife we saw!

Rita Blanca Lake in Dalhart

Came very close to stepping on this diamondback water snake

We can't wait to leave Dalhart.  Not our kind of town.  Lots of flies due to cow and pig farms.  Smelly most of the time too.  A working class town, not influential at all.  There is a hospital, nice high school, lots of very small businesses that cater to the agriculture environment.  We have beside us 6 young men in a very, very large RV, a bunk house, and they are from Kansas.  They do not speak English which is very puzzling.  I think I heard French but not sure. I believe they are related - brothers or cousins or somehow family.  This campground is 80% transients for the farms/agriculture.  Many harvesters are here in similar bunk houses.  Out at daybreak and most come back at dusk however the group beside us came back at midnight last night.  We think something happened to the truck, maybe bottomed out or hit something.  Their vehicle is enormous - just like a fire engine.  And very loud.

Their vehicle looks like a fire engine

A very big bunkhouse - maybe 55 feet long?

Last night an RV pulled up by us and we watched them disconnect.  She could barely get out of the truck, needed assistance from him.  We thought - oh my, is she sick, how sad?  Found out that she was following him in a separate car and he noticed that she was not in his rear view mirror, pulled over and waited for her to catch up.  Waited, waited, then he got a call from the highway patrol - she just totaled the car and was okay but needed him to swing back and get her.  This morning we saw she was moving a tidge better, they did a little trip and was back and I noticed in the back seat of the truck was a set of plates and a box of stuff - like you have in your car (tissue, maps, cell cords, etc.)  I think they went and finalized the papers of the accident since the car was totaled, then came back and packed up the RV and left to go home to Fort Worth.  Wow, lucky she wasn't killed.

Friday morning we leave for Taos, New Mexico.  We will see how long we stay there - where we are going (Eagle Fire) is at 8000 feet and the nights are down to freezing and days in low 70s.  If its too cold we will move to Santa Fe.