11/12/10 Friday To Fort Stockton, Tx

Friday – 11/12/10

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OK, so finally a night that wasn’t that good at WalMart! Around 10:30pm the Fed Ex truck started up his generator. Surely this won’t go on for long. It’s not like he needs an air conditioner tonight. Boy were we wrong. After a couple of hours, Thomas woke up again with this loud generator bussing in our ears. In a huff, he jumps up, grabs clothes and the keys and says: “I’m moving us. This is ridiculous!” He starts up the truck and moves to another area. However, he forgot that he put our aluminum folding table under the fender well of the trailer. Someone who just parked told him that he must have left a chair our where we had been parked. He walked back and got it. The table is a little warped and unstable now but will do until we can find another one to replace it.

Today we hope to see San Antonio. Maybe there will be some place to park and drop the trailer for a little sight seeing. But the rain started early.

Before leaving WalMart, they let us fill our water tank at the tire center. They were very friendly and nice. Thank you.

Back on the road. It has been raining sporadically and just wasn’t a good day for sight seeing. Then we got to San Antonio. The road was crazy! In one place I-10 W split into Upper Level and Lower Level. What? There was such a need to increase the lanes and no where to go sideways so they built more lanes above the other. No way could we have been able to just stop in town to sight see.

The buildings were amazing. The Lincoln Center was all glass. No way could we have been able to just stop in town to sight see.

The landscape has changed from flat to hilly. On the other side of Junction, Texas I knew I was out west again by the first sight of windmills again. Like before, it is strange to see how many are not working but just sitting.

Tonight will be in WalMart in fort Stockton, Texas. This is not a Super Center. We parked close to a Class A. They were very nice and we talked for a while. They will probably be in Holtville, CA while we are there. As the night goes on, more and more RV’s pull in.

Tomorrow…Big Bend