We left Las Cruces, NM at 8:30 am
under sunny skies with calm winds.
Morning rush hour through El Paso wasn’t too bad and we headed east
towards Fort Stockton, TX. The road was
mostly deserted: us, the trucks, another RV here and there and a few fast
moving cars and pick-ups.
We had to stop at a Border Patrol
check point near a town called San Carlos, TX.
All vehicles had to stop – trucks in one lane, buses in another and cars
and RVs in another one. As you approach
the check point, your vehicle is scanned by a variety of sensors of unknown
purpose. When stopped, you are asked by
a Border patrol agent if you are a U.S. Citizen, after you say “yes” you are
cleared to proceed. He didn’t ask for
our papers, but on other trips through this checkpoint we have seen people
pulled over and their vehicle searched by multiple agents with dogs and heavy
weapons.
Just past the town of Van Horn we
began to experience fog and accumulations of heavy frost on the desert
landscape. The road remained dry and
although visibility was reduced the trucks and fast movers continued to zoom by
us at the posted speed limit of 80 mph (or more). It was a strange sight and the vegetation and
ground cover all looked like they had been flocked.
The fog and most of the frost was
gone when we arrived at the RV park in Fort Stockton about 3:30 PM. We lost an hour on the trip and are now in
the CST zone. It is overcast and cold
here (29 degrees) but no wind. There is
a small restaurant at the RV park advertising slow-cooked pork rib dinners for
tonight. We are planning to go there for
dinner.
We will drive to San Antonio
tomorrow. If we get there early enough
we may try and visit the Alamo and have dinner on the River Walk. We are staying at the Fort Sam Houston RV Park
run by the U.S. Army. The weather
forecast for the rest of the way looks good at the moment with no rain
predicted.
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