La Quinta Inn Ft Stockton Fort Stockton

... 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!

... 1.50 each, the common language was English with Spanish coming in second place. I had an early start at eight am, and had a thin layer of frost on everything. It was cold for the first couple of hours, with heated vest, fleece, and extra gloves. Hard to believe this is happening in Mexico. Within two hours I was out in the desert, and started peeling of clothes and had a wonderful day. Along the way I came across what is known as the elephant Rock, and it is quite clear! I ...

... 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 ...

... barely wider than our vehicle; -The ghost-like face of the driver of a tractor-trailer who came across at a snail pace and drove out with eyes fixated with fear, after a possible glance at the abyss; http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/find adest/parks/seminole_canyon ...

... He had wandered beyond a fence that said "US Government property, Top Secret - Keep out". If I recall, the name of the town was Roswell New Mexico. Seriously folks, we just had to stop in Roswell. They do not take themselves very seriously, and the space alien business is HUGE for the otherwise nothing town. The downtown ...

... in the office offered to give me a taste and popped over to the café and came back with two bottles and two glasses. The c******nay was good! I bought two bottles and headed back to the RV with my find. A wine tasting in the middle of the Texas prairie in an RV campground, definitely a first. We went into the local grocery store and they sold the wines as well for a very ...

Well today was interesting. As usual my idea of getting off early didnt happen. When I was fianlly able to pack the car up with all our stuff (granted, I know that my bag of skate gear, maybe wasnt necessary, but it was a necessary evil) and I went to start the car and it was dead. You heard me!! DEAD. Seems the kids - while as good as they were in cleaning out my ...

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 ...

After the fun times in San Antonio and visiting the Alamo (which only reminds me of PeeWee Hermans Big Adventure and finding his bike in the basement) We were back in the car to trek across the rest of the width of Texas...along the way we took a bunch of pictures of the landscape and sunset. We got to Fort Stockton around 8:00pm and found the Cheapest hotel around which was the lovely Budget Inn. We pulled up to our room ...

... fulfilling both ambitions. So whatever brought me to this point doesn't really matter. Stopped for gas and food (Dairy Queen!) in Sonara. A sleepy place on the "Edwards Plateau". (They have a previous employer of mine here (Schlumberger) although I don't know what division "and quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" Long straight roads cut through hills, clear blue skies, temperatures in the 90's - a dry heat, dry river beds, bushes and scrub (no ...