We left the RV park in Austin about 9:00 am this morning. As the park is in the NE section of town in the suburbs, we had to head into downtown Austin and go south a little bit to pick up the highway west to I-10 (US 290). Of course, we hit rush hour traffic (maybe a lot of people go to work at 10:00 am here - I guess it could be Texas state government workers or maybe University of Texas people). So, it took us a little while to get through town, but we did so without incident and headed west through the Texas hill country passing LBJ's ranch and driving again through Fredericksburg where we had spent two nights on the way east.
When we turned west on I-10 the skies were overcast and we had a few sprinkles along the way. We are now into "wide open country" and the only excitement is how bad the wind will be and from what direction, how many trucks will pass you at speeds above the speed limit and where is the enivitable road construction. Although I have to admit, with an 80 mph speed limit on the road and Texas Highway Patrol vehicles lurking behind billboards (actually there are no billboards but their cars are hard to spot in advance), we didn't have a lot of vehicles roaring past us while we were going 70 mph.
So, we cranked out the miles and arrived at our stop for the night, the Fort Stockton RV Park about 4:15 pm. We have stayed here many times and it is an "oasis in the desert" so to speak as it is half way between "somewhere in west Texas and somewhere else near New Mexico". Nothing has changed much except they are not doing their specialty country style ribs in the co-located Road Runner Café anymore. Nevertheless, we are eating dinner there tonight. We are going to bed early in order to get an early start in the morning. Right now, the weather looks good for the next few days going west.
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