Sunday House Motor Inn Alpine

... 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 ...

... It looks & feels 200 years old and is what we were hankerin' for. When we were leaving, the barkeep gave us a souvenir plug nickel that they use during "2-for-1" happy hours. You pay for one beer and you get the 'wooden' nickel for your next one. What a great advertising gimmick! Someday, we'll use ours. Things we Learned: Just west of Alpine is the little town of Marfa that's famous for a phenomenon. Thousands of years ago the native inhabitants recorded ...

... 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 ...

... grass and dotted with deep green trees and shrubs. Some of the fields house cattle and every few miles we pass the entrance to another ranch - clearly marked with a big gate and a sign hanging above it, detailing the name of the ranch along with, in some cases, a little decoration in the way of paintwork, metalwork or an American flag. Many of them also proudly display a sign out front, along the roadside, clarifying their stance in the forthcoming elections ...

... We found out later, at a rest stop, that they were meeting another Porsche Club for a rally. Great fun, and beautiful cars. We turned South mid-morning, and headed across New Mexico for Texas. Outside a little town in New Mexico, we let Ken out to do his business, and he came back with a new friend (See picture - Ken's new ...

... crus of France, the AOCs of Italy, there is also a very brief section on Texas wineries and one of them, Ste. Genevieve, is located in Fort Stockton. After we got set up, I went into the campground office to ask about the winery. It turns out they do not have a tasting room, but the little café at the campground served their wines and they sold them in the camp store. The ...

Well, today's drive had a few more challenges attached! We got started early - around 7:45, because we had almost 300 miles to cover, and when we reached Ft. Stockton, we had to disconnect the car, the moped and the tow dolly so that we could take the motorhome and the car over to a Texas State Inspection Station. (Our last inspection, which is a requirement for any Texas-licensed vehicle driving in Texas, was in ...

We left Minnesota on May 8th at 6:30am with intentions to meet friends' Coby and Yvette in Foss Lake Oklahoma at around 11pm. Stopped in Enid, OK to grab some liquor before the stores closed and got about 10miles before our tire blew out--and of course, because we were heading to Texas to get five new tires courtesy of Prestons parents...we didn't have a spare. Morons! It would have been much worse if we hadn't just stopped at the liquor store. We pulled well off the highway and ...