San Antonio, Tx - FT Stockton, Tx

Day 5. 01/10/10 Today was somewhat uneventful. We slept in. When we set the clocks last night we set them an hour behind so we had to hustle to get out of the Park on time. We had to be out by noon. We planned to stay in Van Horn tonight but Map Quest showed it was 483 miles from where we were and that it would take 5 hours to get there. They were apparently arriving at that time based on the fact that the speed limit on I10 is 80 miles an hour. Well, guess what? In the RV and with the winds we were able to travel about 60-65 mph. Therefore, 5 hours down the road we decided to stay in Fort Stockton which is 119 miles east of Van Horn. Map Quest showed it was 7 ½ hours from San Antonio to El Paso and El Paso is 238 miles away after having traveled 5 hours. Now tell me, what is wrong with this picture.

We stopped in Sonora for gas. Even with the wind and all these hills in southern Texas we still got 7 mpg. There were some pretty sights along the route and some pretty barren areas. Some places looked like Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado, others like Southern Colorado and New Mexico. Lots of cacti, sage brush and Joshua Trees. We also so bunches of Wind Turbins.

Still no armadillos but lots of dead deer along the road. We also saw a herd of about 100 antelope grazing on somebodys crop of wheat or whatever. We also saw bunches of sheep and some llama.

Thought this was an interesting town sign. Wanda was a Missouri Welfare Case worker.

JW also commented that he has seen very few Mexicans and thinks that it’s because they have all gone to Oklahoma, Kansas or Missouri to work.

We got set up at Fort Stockton RV Park at 5:25 p.m. The Roadrunner BBQ & Café, which is located just behind the campground office, opened at 5:30 p.m. so instead of cooking tonight we decided to dine at the café. Very good food. JW had Chicken Fried Steak, WJ had Pork Ribs.

We took many many pictures of the West Texas landscape, but after awhile all the mountains started to look alike.

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That’s it for this post, check back tomorrow for updates as we continuie our journey to sunny Southern California.