Miles and Miles and Miles of Texas

Thursday February 16^th

We did a few shortcuts last night in setting up the trailer so once we had a quick breakfast we were able to get on the road by 8:45. First gas stop was Colorado City near Big Spring, TX. I fueled up at a Stripes station where there was limited room to get out of the pump area and I ended up hitting the trailer rear bumper on a concrete bollard. It didn’t seem to hurt the bollard, but I have some reconstructive surgery to do on the bumper. The bumper is a hollow square metal tube where the sewer hose is stored during transit. So I might have a problem getting to the sewer hose but I can still get at it from the other end.

We saw miles and miles and miles of Texas and probably a million oil wells. It looks like the economy is doing quite well in the “oil patch;” we saw a lot of signs posted for help wanted. We stopped in Odessa and I used the bathroom and got a sandwich but there were so many people coming and going, that I didn’t even try to get gas.

We stayed focused on getting miles put behind us and with the help of gaining an hour by getting to Mountain Time Zone, we made it to Las Cruces, N.M by about 6:30pm. We had to setup in the dark and then were going to go out for supper but neither of us had enough pep to go anywhere.