Good bye Midland Texas, lets hit the road! Not too far though....

Where are we today ?

TRA  Escapees rv Park, Pecos Texas

        Hey we got up early as usual and it was cold! How cold was it? 16 f with a wind chill factor that made in 8f.  Now overnight our water pump quit, yep frozen solid. We even had our furnace running and a light bulb by the water pump. Nope we frozen. 

       Not a real problem cause we have water inside and we have heat. Friends of ours John and Barb were heading this way and got stopped about 40 miles east of us and spent the night at a campground.

       This morning they were headed west like us but about two hours ahead of our comfort zone in this weather.  Ok, road is looking good and we can get outta here, Walmart camping is ok for one night but we have been here for three nights lets move on down the road. Besides, we needed fuel and propane. 

       But we have a bit of and issue, our TV antenna will not stow in the lowered position. I climbed the ladder to our roof and we have one inch of ice there. Sorry not going on that roof. Hmm what to do? Our ladder is to short, so into Walmart and think about this. 

        I ran into to some Midland firefighters buying groceries and discussed our problem. Easy fix he suggests get some ice melter or softener salt and throw of the roof. Well scoured the store and finally asked a helpful employee. Sorry sold out of ice melter, rock salt, softener salt and ice scrapers. A nice lady suggested table salt, hey thanks! Picked a couple pound of that and back to our coach.

        Moved our coach over a bit and in this blustery cold wind poured a whole box around the antenna base. Did not work right away so we fuelled up our coach and head on down the road, antenna hanging off the roof.

thats our antenna hanging high in the air

        Now we are on I-20 moving right along. Road not too bad and no traffic at all. Just before we got to Pecos TX  got a  message from our friends. They are on the side on the interstate, parked. black ice, no where to go. Suggest we stop at Pecos for the night.
         So only 90 miles down the road we pull into Pecos, fuel up at the Flying J. again. They have no propane=sold out. Down the road found a place topped up out propane tank and ready to go. Tiny Walmart here and no Rv parking at the Flying J so found a TRA rv park  with one site left. Quickly we grabbed it and got set up.

love the overpasses here

        Now we have electric but no water, pipes in the campground frozen. Our antenna has now been stowed and thawed out our water pump. We happy, we comfy and we toasty warm. Ok we paid $28.00 for the night but we have had free camping so far all winter and its only for one night, we hope.

cool camper beside us

       Checked in at the office and they have a huge book exchange. Suzie in her glory, found 5 new books and we traded 5 of our used ones, great deal.

This be the campground now full, nothing fancy,
 but we only here for a night in our house

a nice pull thru site

next door is a small air field with this huge chopper there

the view out our front window,
small oil field

          Now a great travel day we had only 90 miles but and new place and cozy and warm. Relax for a bit and reheat the rest of our chicken and taters, add some mixed veggie and garlic bread. What more can we ask for? Maybe warmer weather but that will happen eventually.

Tasty supper and no dishes for Suzie again !

       Hey thank ya'll for riding on down the road with us, not far, but new place, new faces and new experiences. By the way The staff in this campground are so friendly we almost want to stay here longer. But we have a plan, I think. Not much here to see anyway+too cold.

Posted by George, a.k.a. "The Weber "Q" Man of Blogland" according to Rick Doyle. 

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