Moving further West

We spent our last day at Hord’s Creek doing exactly what we wanted. We had a late, relatively large breakfast, went in to Coleman to pirate some Wi-Fi (last blog update ws published then) but ended up at the library just using their Wi-Fi. I always forget they usually have that available. We then finished our Coleman visit with chocolate Dairy Queen shakes and a quick stop at the grocery store for eggs. We sped back to camp and spent the remaining part of Friday just lazing around doing what each of us wanted. Bruce read a book and indulged in adult beverages and I completed work on my tracking spreadsheet to use to document the expenses on this trip – always nice to know how much and what you spent your money for- (yeah – I know you can take the girl out of the technology work environment but you can’t take the computer from the girl). Then I read a book and we both watched all of the Friday camper arrivals – backing into trees, hitting their 5th wheel tongues, etc. – always quite a show. We finished the evening with this wonderful sunset. As we were leaving early the next morning- we had already cleaned up the camp site. All we had to do Saturday morning, if all went to plan, was make the coffee, unhook the water & electric, run in the slides, go and dump the tanks and get on the way. We were hoping to beat the heat and the ever increasing wind you experience as you move west.

It is Saturday afternoon, we have already eaten lunch and are sitting in our site at Brantley Lake State Park in Carlsbad, NM and I have internet access again. Yes, it comes and goes, but it does connect- not like in the boondocks of Texas. This update is as fresh as it gets- as are the accompanying pictures I already have. All went as planned- but speaking of wind- we must have been through the windiest part of Texas- there were electric wind generation windmills for miles and miles just south of Sweetwater. Didn’t get the picture I wanted as the camera was in the car- being towed behind us and I didn’t want to suggest to Bruce that he pull over, let me find my keys and then let me find the camera and take 1-2 pictures that we probably wouldn’t recognize when we saw them later - although he did offer to stop and let me go and find everything if I really wanted those pictures. Not! I have learned something in 32 years. After seeing the miles & miles of windmills, most not moving at the time made me very glad that we had been on the road by 6:50am. I can’t imagine driving the big brick on wheels (The Beast) if all of those babies had been truning at full speed, we would have been all over the road. The biggest event of the morning was trying to get diesel fuel in a less than RV accommodating station in Big Springs. We did accomplish the feat- and it wasn’t as costly as it could have been- and got back on US 87 to Lamesa where we hit US190 and stayed on it until we hit Carlsbad. The drive itself was uneventful and was much better on the back roads than on the interstate- more to see- if you could call acres of wheat, cotton and desert more to see (visions of 1987 driving through Kansas Jeremy- if you remember).

Looks like we might be in the path for a little weather so will get this posted and my computer shut down just in case. See you all later!

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