Comfort to Ft Stockton, TX

Tuesday the 16th

Well it definitely froze last night. Fortunately I left a trickle of water running in the kitchen all night and we left the heat set at 62, also to run all night. Unfortunately, this cold weather and running the furnaces is really going through the propane. We've used almost a full tank in less than a week.

It's a beautiful morning with blue sky and no clouds. We got on the road by 8:30 AM heading ever westward on I-10. We drove 65 miles and made our first stop of the day for fuel. Fifteen minutes later we were back on the road. As you can see, Wicket and Punky are ready to assume their stations on Tina lap as son as we start moving.

Originally we were going to stop at Ozana, which would have been a 200 mile day but the campground there got several bad reviews, so we continued to Ft Stockton, even though it added another 80 mils to the days drive. This is a pretty sparse area with very few communities or services. So there weren't a lot of options for places to stop.

Our second stop was at a roadside rest area to take the kids for walk. Fifteen minutes later we were back on the road. This has been one of our better days with very good road conditions, very little traffic and no wind. We have six cd's in the stereo and it's set on 'shuffle' so the tunes are rocking us as we roll along.

Our third stop was at a roadside picnic area for lunch. Tina fixed us sandwiches and some potato salad from last night. Twenty minutes later we were back on the road.

We turned off the road at exit 264 and pulled into the Ft Stockton RV Campground just before 2:00 PM. Once we registered, but before going to our site, we filled up our propane. Once that was done we got to our site, set up for the night.

While Tina did a load of laundry I uploaded the photos and finished our daily blog. No cable here so we'll see what we can pull in off the antenna. Otherwise we don't plan to do anything except get ready for tomorrow.

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Distance for today, 271 miles. Total for the trip so far, 5,413 miles.