Heading for El Paso

We are up at 5.30am!!  It is a cold 40F. We leave Travelers World at 7.05am.

(Have I ever commented on the bathrooms? Probably! When you are the first in the bathroom the smell of disinfectant is like roses!!)




We follow the instructions from the RV park as to how to get out of town and onto I-10W. Fortunately the gps is in agreement with those instructions; the last thing we need is confusion! But there is still some madness. We are in peak hour traffic and San Antonio has a particularly convoluted arrangement of highways, interstates and overhead bridges right in the centre of town. Lots and lots of traffic. We are both fairly quiet - almost holding our breath.







Thankfully the heaviest traffic is that coming in to town!

May be the last Starbucks sign for a while.

And then the traffic is over; we are into country side with good highways. Very pleasant.








We have about 310 miles to Fort Stockton today.
The temperature has dropped to 35 F as we get into higher altitudes. We are climbing from 650 ft above sea level in San Antonio to 3,200 ft  in Fort Stockton.
The speed limit has increased to 80 mph - 129 kmh. We stay pretty constantly on 60.

These pop up from time to time.

We decide to continue past Fort Stockton another 110 miles to Van Horn; we arrive there about 4.30pm; 437/ 712 kms miles for the day!

We have dinner at the RV park cafe. Two main meals and a bottle of Texas Red for $26.00.

Road Runner!

The views are amazing with highways stretching into the distance ... sound familiar??

A wind farm

Van Horn is a place to stop on I 10 and not much else. It has 19 hotels and motels on Broadway - they all look tired and run down.

Lone Star 

Then we head for El Paso, a must given Trevor's lifelong love of Marty Robbins' song 'El Paso...'  I recall all those years ago when we were going out together, his mum Shirley telling me that he would sing it in the bath when he was a kid!
With that history there are no second thoughts as to which route to take.

We take a site at the Road Runner RV Park about 8 miles east of downtown. Trevor picks up a rental car for the weekend.

Did I tell you that we crossed another time line? We are now in Mountain Time; 15 hours behind Perth.