We drove in after a week on the road and 2800 miles later. The girls helped to unload and we had zero breakage.

Unfortunately, two of my previous posts wound up in cyberspace. I will try to repost them.

We will stay here, until Oct 4 when we break camp for Colorado.

Cheers,

Peter

p.s. cycler is behaving...

...and drove for 11 hours today and we are still in Texas.

Leaving Austin and saying Good-bye to daughter Hillary and her husband Chris along with Andre their dog wasn't easy, they made our stay just perfect.

We left at 8:30 as in a.m. and initially we were going against rush hour, but then for about 20 miles it was a crawl.

The terrain started to change in Johnson City, yes the home of LBJ. Signage everywhere told us about the former President and the Firdt Lady "Lady Bird".

Then came Fredericksburg and I was amazed at the Texas Hill Country and the huge German roots it has. Since we made lodging reservations in El Paso we did not have time to dawdle and kept on going. The U-Haul folks recommend a max of 55, but we set the cruise control for 65. With the speed limit on the secondary roads at 70 and I-10 at 80 mph we did not want to pose a safety hazard.

Around Ft Stockton we encountered a typical Western thunderstorm with lots of lightning.

The the terrain hanged again to the prairie type transitioning to a mountain range. Then surprisingly we entered the mountain time zone and gained an hour.

On an average evening right at dusk about 1.5 Million bats emerge from a bridge in Austin, TX. We were lucky to witness "3 main streams" forming what is known as bat smoke. It was an amazing sight!

Thanks Hillary and Chris for making it possible.

Arrived in Austin just in time for a most god awful traffic snarl, yet made it to Hillary and Chris's place in time for a great dinner.

Texas this time of the year is in full cotton harvest mode. I have never seen such great cotton bales. They were the size of a freight car and lined up on the side of the road they took the shape of a wall. Amazing!

Resting up today we will strike out for El Paso tomorrow. I am afraid if will be hot. It was the mid-nineties and the are forecasting temps on the century mark for AZ.

The road miles seem to be getting to me. Has it ever happened to you where you turn over the wheel to your co-driver and then drift off just to wake up in a start looking for the steering wheel. Realizing that you were dreaming that you ran off the road makes you look foolish in a big way; however you are also relieved that it was only a dream. Brains can be so weird!

Almost packed and ready to go.

Illegal stow away. Found him just in time.

Breezed right through AL and MS and found refuge in an Hampton Inn in Monroe, LA. We could not believe how low the mighty Mississippi was. On the LA side it was practically a beach. We saw acres and acres of cotton fields in full bloom. Quite a sight!

Tomorrow we continue our journey to Austin TX where daughter Hillary will harbor us a couple of nights and take possession of the barber chair.

The dialysis part went without a hitch.