Some random observations

It was cold last night in Texas.

We left the campground at 8:24.  Eight minutes later crossed into Mountain Time and suddenly it was only 7:32.  We used the extra hour for travel.  First thing this morning, this seemed like a splendid idea; tonight, I'm exhausted.

We stopped at a Walmart in El Paso for groceries.  The store was very nice, the best we've been in so far.  Nancy went to the restroom to wash her hands while I got in the checkout line.  When she came out she told me she had no trouble finding me, I was the giant snowman.  And here I thought I was getting a pretty good tan.

I found the El Paso area very strange with Mexico so close that you couldn't tell the two apart.

Texas, between San Antonio and El Paso, is very interesting; New Mexico and Arizona, at least so far, are boring.

We stopped at Las Cruces, New Mexico for lunch.  We had trouble finding places to eat at first because  the Garmin kept sending us to restaurants inside buildings at New Mexico State University.

The University has reserved parking spaces for electric hybrid cars.

We saw signs in both Texas and New Mexico that read:  Prison area  Do not pick up hitchhikers.

We got stopped about half an hour west of Las Cruces on I-10.  The border patrol has blocked the highway and diverts all traffic through a check point.  The agent looked at us in the RV, asked if we were both citizens, I said yes, and we were waved on.  I'd call that profiling.

A second, even larger, inspection station is under construction right next to this one.    

Day 61

Van Horn, TX to Willcox, AZ

Daily Mileage:  364.9

Total Mileage:  10,356.1