Oh, what a great night’s sleep. We got prepared to travel and headed out to find the next Rest Area for morning showers at 8:45am.
Continuing on down the road, we started to see windmill farms around the Abilene, TX area. To the west of Abilene were lots of cotton fields. From there, things became flat and brown and lots of nothing.
We passed through Midland and Odessa. Now the scenery is oil fields. Many of the pumps are not moving instead sitting still, appearing as dead as the rest of the landscape. The farther west we went, more pumps seemed to be in production.
The speed limit had gone from 70 daytime, 65 nights to 80 daytime and 65 night. The truckers are still limited to the lower speed limit. Even though everyone seems to stay pretty close to the limit, there are not many troopers out patrolling the interstate.
Our supper stop was at a Rest Area just west of Monahans, TX. Hamburger steaks and green beans, yummy. (OK, not a full rounded meal but good.) It seems like it has been a while since I have cooked anything close to a full meal. We don’t want to fix too much due to limited refrigerator space. When we left, I packed in a cooler several packs of hamburger, a small pork roast, a couple of large chicken breasts, the meats that Cheryl and family sent us for Christmas from Swiss Colony, and some bacon. This finished up the last of the hamburger. Tomorrow I will have to cook up the roast and chicken so that we don’t have to buy more ice for the cooler.
After supper we decided to travel on a while longer before stopping for the night. Now traveling on I-10 and about 7 miles from the Rio Grande River, we stopped for the night in a picnic area. We are once again in the mountains.
Until tomorrow.......
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