Sittin’ in Fort Stockton, TX
Into every life a little rain must fall. For full time RVers this usually manifests itself as mechanical difficulties.
Central Time (3/13/10)
Having gotten the mail, and picked up some clothing at the alteration shop, it was time to move on. We bailed on the site in El Paso two days early. This makes our per-night cost be $25. Five dollars per night over our target. Oh well.
Deep in the Heart of Texas (3/13/10)
We’re making progress. Left El Paso about 8 AM this morning. On arriving at Van Horn (beep-beep) we found that we had entered the central time zone. We advanced our watches an hour, from 11:30 to 12:30. Since we had eaten a large breakfast at Flying J, we weren’t yet hungry, so we continued on to Fort Stockton. We arrived around 2:30 PM CST. Had some McDonalds for lunch, and are now ensconced in the Comanche Land RV Park. This is a large gravel field with hookups, a mix of 30 and 50 amp electricity. All sites have water, sewer and cable TV. For 16 dollars, we’re pretty happy.
Return to Las Cruces, and Safely Home Again
We drove back to Las Cruces and got the mail. It was good that this showed up, since it had Roseann’s Social Security card, and we will need that to get her driver’s license. Along with the visit to the Post Office, we had lunch at La Posta, as recommended by Angel in a comment a few entries ago.
On our way back, we stopped at the U.S. Border Patrol Museum. Depending on your politics, you might have differing views of the Border Patrol, but it’s important to remember that lawmaking and law enforcement are two different things. I decided to consider the Border Patrol as a valued part of the forces that protect ME. Read the rest of this entry »
Down in the West Texas Town of El Paso…
… I fell in love with — well, you get the idea.
There’s a certain something to one’s first night spent in one’s new home state. We’ve stated that we are becoming Texas residents and on Monday we moved our trailer from Las Cruces to El Paso. We would have gotten our license plates, but Texas requires that you do that in your home county, so we’re unable, until we get to Polk County, where Livingston is located. Read the rest of this entry »
Alamogordo
On Sunday (3/7) we visited Alamogordo, NM, home of the New Mexico Museum of Space History. It took a bit over an hour to drive from Las Cruces to Alamogordo, via Hwy 70. US-70 passes through the White Sands Missile Range and the White Sands National Monument. Like most of the Desert Southwest, the scenery is bare ground, small shrubs and trees, and then, for a brief moment, sand dunes. Read the rest of this entry »
Another Saturday Night…
Had a lovely Shabbat. Started Friday night with candles, wine, challah and brisket. Got the brisket just right by cooking at 200F for about five hours. Did it with carrots and potatoes in the roasting pan. Also gefilte fish. We use the frozen loaf kind. I bought four of them, took a clean hacksaw blade, and cut them in half. Each half-a-loaf makes a fine Shabbat portion.
This morning, I went to Shul at Chabad of El Paso. Rabbi Greenberg has a fine Chabad House going. Had a good service, got called to the Torah, and we had a fine kiddush afterwards.
Returning home permitted a nice Shabbat nap.
We went out to dinner at Pullaro’s Italian Restaurant. It was very nice.
Monday we are moving on to El Paso.
Deming, NM to Las Cruces, NM (3/4/10)
Moving briskly along the State of New Mexico brings us to Las Cruces.
The ride along I-10 for the past day or so has been pretty dreary. Lots of open space, very little development between towns. Occasionally there is a store for tourists, usually preceded by 20 miles of billboards. New Mexico allows the sale of fireworks, but so far, I’ve resisted. Read the rest of this entry »
Willcox, AZ to Deming, NM (3/3/10)
So… We spent a very quiet day in Willcox, and this morning, we “moved house” as the English say, down the road about 150 miles to Deming. This town is pronounced with a short E, so it sounds like lemming. On our way hither, we passed through Lordsburg, where I photographed the Masonic Lodge and the Telephone Building.
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Willcox, AZ (3/1/2010)
Not much to report. We did a day of driving, skipped a bunch of nice tourist possibilities, and are camped at the Elks Lodge in Willcox, AZ, where we will stay two nights. I have a day of work to do tomorrow, and we’d like to get some laundry done.
It was a frustrating day driving, with some road work, some mistakes, like getting stuck in an outlet mall instead of finding a freeway entrance, etc. I need to learn to take things easier.
Since this was a travel day, here’s a chance for me to share a photo of our home, rigged for travel:
Here's a shot of our rig, bicycle, truck and trailer and barely visible spouse, ready to hit the road.