Oak Tree Inn Alpine

... not from around here&#8221; looks and headed right back to the hotel. On our way back, we saw Pecos Pete, the 2nd largest roadrunner statue in America and took some pictures. The highlight of that was watching a dumb teen who had climbed up on Pecos Pete and couldn&#8217;t get down. Fun at others expense.<br><br>Dinner options were few, so we stopped at Sonic to pick up some accompaniments to our leftover BBQ, and ended our night in shifty unfriendly Fort Stockton. Adios Texas!

... Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, and ended in French Polynesia. Way to go Paul, your my hero! I next made my way south to the Rio Grande Village for a picnic and to get a permit for the back country. I got my first look at the river and an old Hot Spring. The spring was run up till the late 40's by the locals as a "cure", but has been abandoned since. The buildings are all falling down but the riverside spring is still ...

... boots IN the bar, has to have a wood floor, a foot stool under the bar, a spittoon in the corner and where a drink costs a "Plug Nickel." We found it! It didn't have a spittoon but you could hear the spurs jingle every now and then. Called "Harry's Tijaya" (watering hole in Spanish) this place had it all - hell, they even shoed a horse in the bar and got pictures to prove it.. Outside, there's a hitching post that runs on three sides of the bar and is littered (decorated ...

... do! I'd like to thank all the people who responded to my decision to stop riding South. People who know me well enough realize that I have wanted to do this trip for a very long time and it took a lot of onerous thought to come to the conclusion that it isn't right for me at this time. Another time, not alone, with skill in Spanish, plus coming to the realization that a lot of people do not live at the same standard as we are fortunate to have in Canada. Distance Travelled: 745 Km

Today was an excellent day as it was only cool this morning as I pulled on to the highway. I had a couple of interesting experiences on the highway today. I was behind a large flatbed truck with a load of thousands of chickens in cages and the feathers flying off were so amusing. I was also behind a trailer with about twelve cows and I was very happy to pass them as I am never sure what surprise "gift" they might spray or drop on me as I follow ...

280 miles/450 km - 5.5 hrs quiet drive today on scenic US90 &amp; US285 through a collection of creeks, canyons and mesas of various sizes, carving their way through hills and meandering over mountains up to altitudes of  over 3,500 ft/1,100 m, under a comfortable 70F/22C sunny ...

... It was a microbrewery, so we were able to try their very own beers. And the food was homely, freshly cooked and very affordable. Laura's choice was a particular winner: cedar wood pork chop. This is pretty much exactly what the name denotes, a pork chop that has been cooked on a piece of cedar wood. And a very clever trick it is true because the pork soaks up the incredible flavour of the wood, becoming both very tender and very, very, very tasty - something to ...

Today was a long driving day, and nothing much happened, but we made some new friends. Most of the day was spent looking at the view in the picture entitled "Mostly what we saw today". If you look closely, I think you can see the Statue of Liberty in the background. About an hour out of Albuquerque, we came upon a parade of 11 vintage ...

... life, Greg found a bungee cord which he attached to an eyelet that was sticking out from inside the rolled-up awning, and he pulled the cord down and hooked it at the bottom of the awning arm, which kept it from being able to unroll again, despite the terrible wind gusts that continued. We only lost about twenty minutes, so we still made it Ft. Stockton in time to check into our campground, get everything ...

... Food damnit) and we headed back to Foss Lake for a crazy nite of Skip-Bo and fishing. A quick fuel pump install the next morn and we were on our way to visit Mom and Dad Smith in Christoval Texas. We are in Tejas now- visiting family, working on our tans, gearing up the cruiser, and getting *****-ley (several of the neighbors chihuahuas were getting a little too friendly) spayed and both mutts vaccinated. We will leave for Mexico as soon as our new solar panel arrives via fed ex.