Holiday Inn Express Suites Fort Stockton

... while traveling. We ended up with only one douche bag who wanted us to call him "bald sweaty guy." We ignored him.<br><br>After our eco-tour, we were going to try another swimming hole called Hamilton Pool, but it was July 4th, and the wait was about an hour&#8230;so of course we backed up our car and headed to BBQ! We got a little&#8230;redirected&#8230;3 times, including pulling up to the Salt Lick catering center but finally reached our destination. Salt Lick ...

... on learning his fourth language. He already had English, Russian and German 4) Spanish lady thirty years old on a twelve month trip, and is hoping to get to Ushuaia by the end of the year. She lost her husband two years ago. Very sad. 5) Mexican student 6) British elder gentleman 7) American lady who had just graduated from college 8) Canadian from Ontario on a motorcycle. 9) American lady who is being pursued by Mexican #5 What was amazing was that the beers cost less ...

... I need. As I approached the southern part of Texas the landscape became very dry and mostly flat with a few large hills interspersed every once in a while. By lunch time the electric vest was off, the extra gloves I wear over my riding gloves were off as well. One thing I noticed this afternoon is the continuous smell of raw oil that escapes from the hundreds of wells in the area. It is noticeable, but not too strong to be an irritation. I guess ...

... poles in the shape of long Arizona Saguaro Cactuses: http://www.discoverseaz.com/Wildlife/Sa guaro.html - Occasional 'School Stop Signs' with no visible human habitat; - A mexican looking gringo sitting at a picnic stop with his cooler, no vehicle in sight, in an area very ...

... are a scream! The T-Shirts in the alien shop are really clever, like: Alien, the other gray meat. We had a fun time looking at the stuff. We lost an hour going back into Central time (only 1 zone to go!), and arrived at Fort Stockton at 6:00 PM. It is a nice one-horse town, but the horse left! It was a stop on the Santa Fe ...

Fort Stockton is on the range area in the western portion of Texas. It appears to be mainly a stopover for RVers with many pulling in at dusk and then leaving the next morning. This is what we intend to do as well. However, before we left Florida, we won a Sotheby's wine encyclopedia that lists all of the great wineries of the world by region. In addition to the various ...

... turned on the interior lights, and ran my battery out. Scott had to come back from work - jump my car; helped my brother to install the dvd movie things so the kids can watch movies... and then he left.. we got to Walmart to get him Fathers Day cards and some of his favorite Candy and we were off.. FINALLY at 11am. We got to Ft. Stockton without any problems ...

... and staff and an on-site restaurant (Roadrunner Café - "Best Little Café in Texas") with excellent down-home cooking. And the sunset was beautiful! We missed the town landmark, a statue, 20 feet long, 11 feet tall, and said to be the world's largest roadrunner. I think it is adjacent to the world's largest ball of twine! A little history: The area, due to a spring, was widely known as a way station along several well traveled routes ...

... Cassandra loves the place and with good reason - its got a lot of "only in America" moments including: (1) a 750ft elevator shaft to the cave (who needs stairs and personal exertion); (2) a cavern room the size of 14 football fields (no type-o there); (3) some clown in its history who fell just a few dollars short of federal funding to blast a hole in the mountain side large enough to make the caves a drive-thru national park (one ...

Okay - from louisiana plantation to beautiful Galvaston Island, Texas, we did the River walk in San Antonio (a river thru the center of the city - originally found by some indians who named it whatever the indian word for ""clear river" is - now it is so polluted you would not want to get a drop on you). It is a beautiful river-side with stone walkways, fountains and plenty of restaurants and ...