Days Inn Ft Stockton Fort Stockton

... while traveling. We ended up with only one douche bag who wanted us to call him "bald sweaty guy." We ignored him.

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…so of course we backed up our car and headed to BBQ! We got a little…redirected…3 times, including pulling up to the Salt Lick catering center but finally reached our destination. Salt Lick ...

... to stop on the Mexican side to "cancel" the temporary vehicle importation permit, and to return the tourist card and get my passport stamped stating that I had in fact returned the tourist card. It all took no longer than five minutes as there was no one else in line. Then over the bridge and joined the line of cars waiting for entry to the USA. It became very hot crawling forward, and while in line is was invited by a group of bikers to contact them if I ever return to the ...

... I saw a large area where there were thousands of "cows" and it appeared that that they were being inspected by men who were interested in buying them. I stopped to take a couple of photographs of two donkeys, burros or asses. I'm not sure what the proper term is, but they reminded me of two friends I have back in Ottawa who have two donkeys as pets. I rode through thousands of acres of pecans. They are very large trees. I stopped at a pecan ...

... Our park is nothing fancy but offers just what we need for an overnight stop, at US$11. http://www.ci.fort-stockton.tx.us/ http://www.parkviewrvpark.com/ Highlights of the day: - My navigator's white knuckles when I drove over a very deep part of Seminole Canyon on a bridge in ...

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 ...

... price. We stocked up since I doubt we'll see these wines anywhere else. There were prickly pear cacti all over the park with ripe fruit and the birds were having a feast. We decided we'd like to try one too and discovered why they're called prickly pears! While the cactus itself has large easily seen thorns, the fruit has these infuriatingly small ones that you don ...

... 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 ...

Carlsbad Caverns to Fort Stockton is an area that would be better navigated by autopilot! Actually the road was fine but the view.....yuck! And the cross-wind was brutal. Granted, it is late-winter/early-spring when weather is often an issue and vegetation is dormant so maybe the landscape and weather has greater appeal at other times of the year. Yeah, right! We stayed at a bright spot on the horizon...Fort Stockton RV Park, with friendly ...

... rather than by virtue of an underground river, which seems to be the way most caves in the world are said to have been formed. An interesting theory. But I can't understand why everyone thinks the world was a perfectly solid ball to start with? Why couldn't the caves have been there (at least in some form) from the start? Lunch on the road and then another stop at Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Last time we were here, we flew ...

... now in Fort Stockton. We almost ran out of gas today because we "ASSumed" there would be a gas station somewhere along our 300 mile journey. One stop at the "Sonora Caverns" (not to look at the caverns mind you but to walk the dogs and buy fudge!) and we were here at the "Cactus KOA". All in all a good day - cool pics of the antiques at the Sonora stop. talk to yall soon Thanks for lookin'