Moving Along from Tombstone … Hello Texas

It seems sometimes there is absolutely nothing, nothing, nothing to blog about.  Other times we’re so busy we don’t have time to blog at all.  Then, when we do, there’s just too much to write about.  This is one of those times.

Since the drive from Tucson to our park just 12 miles north of Tombstone was such a short drive and we arrived so early, we decided to go ahead and visit the well-known little town on Saturday instead of Sunday.  Jerry and Kimberly (fellow bloggers) were in the same park we were.  Thus, it was an outing for all four of us.  Jerry and Kimberly were on a wine tasting mission and Terry was on a mission to look for a new hat. 

Well, he never found the hat but I found plenty of things to take the place of the hat.

We stopped for lunch at Big Nose Kate’s Saloon.  What a hoot that place was.  It was packed, the music was great and we also had our pictures taken.  I had to do a little Photoshop touchup on the picture of the nude lady behind me. Now she's barely visible.   I know, I know … I really didn’t need to but yes I did!

Don’t we look  rough and tough?

Tombstone is a fun town but it wouldn’t be complete without a stop at Boot Hill.  You can really entertain yourself just by reading the inscriptions on the tombstones. 

It certainly gives a little insight into what really was going on during the early 1880’s.

 

We got back to the motorhome and Duchess fairly early.  It was Saturday night. The reason for our visit in this location was now behind us.  What was the plan for Sunday?  Originally that was the day we were going to visit Tombstone.  We made a new plan.  Sunday morning we were on the road to New Mexico.  We weren’t sure how far we’d go.  Were we going to Deming?  Were we going to Las Cruces?  We figured we’d only know that when the time came to stop.

 -- Lee picked us up.

We did stop in Deming but not for the night.  We stopped to go to lunch with Lee (aka IYQ).   We parked the motorhome and Jeep at Wal-Mart.  Lee picked us up and we were off to the Rancher’s Grill in town.  This way we didn't even have to unhook the Jeep.  We chatted about everything and everybody.  Soon we were back on the road again. 

Las Cruces, New Mexico

This time we knew where we were heading.  We were heading to Anthony, Texas.  Why Anthony?  It wasn’t in the original plan.  Well, the Texas Visitor Center was just across the border at mile marker 1 and it was before the town of El Paso.  We figured we could spend the night in their huge parking lot since they 24 hour security and allow it.  What a great place to stop it turned out to be!

The second thing was because we discovered Camping World was just across the freeway.  We really needed Camping World.  Why did we need Camping World?  Have you ever have the flapper in your toilet not close completely? If you have, you’d understand our hurry to get that thing replaced.   We could have fiddled with the flapper but it was so much easier just to replace the whole toilet and that’s what we did.  (No pictures were taken of this fiasco.)

Texas Visitors’ Center

At 6:30 Monday morning Terry was up and ready to get El Paso behind us. We were heading to the Wal-Mart in Fort Stockton.  At least that’s what we figured at that time.   We were lucky that we beat the worst part of the morning work traffic.  There was a lot of traffic but we were still able to zip right through El Paso without a problem or a slow-down.  

We discovered a broken headlight!

A few hours later Fort Stockton was within reach but wait …. it was way too early to consider stopping.  It was too early even though we had to jump our time forward an hour when we crossed over in the central time zone.  Oh well … next planned stop was Ozona or maybe Sonora.  We weren’t sure.  I actually think Terry wanted to push on because he knew if we stopped before Junction, we’d be boondocking another night.  If we made it to Junction, we’d have full hookups and stay for at least two days.  It actually ended up being Junction --- 455 miles for the day. 

We arrived at Junction two days earlier than we planned but had no idea where we’d stay.  Lucky for us there was one spot available at the Junction / North Llano River RV Park.  What a great park this is and it’s right on the Llano River. The host said Canadians were on the move.  Thus, the parks in the area were pretty full. 

We’re here and we’re happy … for now that is.

That’s been what’s happening with us in the last two days.

‘Tis life on the road.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.