Yep still here in Midland Texas, soon to be gone, we hope...

Where are we today ?

Camp Walmart, Midland Texas

        Why are the roads so bad here in Texas?
        They do not use salt on the roads in Texas so when there is ice on the roads, like now, it stays there. You can read about it here as long as the link works. Essentially the reason being is that salt is highly corrosive and does too much damage to the highways. Occasionally they use MD-20 which is a mixture of sand and 10 percent sodium chloride, not real effective at removing the ice from the highways. Mother nature will need to take of that. So until then we will stay where we are.
       You can see below our forecast, not great but it is what it is, even colder tonight.

wind chill feels like 13f

        We are dry campers by choice and know how to deal with this. No electricity no problem, we have solar, inverter, water, tv, heat etc... want coffee, we have the old coffee perk that actually gets a lot of use. Makes awesome coffee!

          We ha d problem this morning our water pump froze up. So a being a handy guy I took my trouble light (60 watt bulb) plugged into our inverter and put in our wet bay. Before we know it pump working again and we are good to go. When it gets real cold gotta do what we gotta do.

great coffee perk, stop by for a good cuppa.

        Once the sun came up thats what we had to see outside our window.

not too inviting is it ?

         Went for another walkabout and am  getting to know this Walmart pretty good, think I have walked every isle a few times. But at least I can get out for a bit.
        Over by the interstate to check things out and nope we do not need to go there yet.

I-20 right next to us

the icy road right behind us

somebody hit the median here

he has been on the road

nice truck, a GOAT in the back!

          Ok, now we are here and have all day, looking for some comfort food, something that goes with this cold blustery weather. So how about a stew?
          Conferred with the boss here (Suzie) and we agreed on a hamburger stew. So back into Wally world (need a walkabout anyway) picked up a few things we need and put it all together. You want my recipe click here and thats how I made it, easy, peasy.

stew is ready to eat

some garlic bread and really hit the spot

        That was another day here at Camp Walmart, looks like a record for us three nights here so far!  Usually its just a quick overnight stay. But not a lot of choices with this weather. Don't wanna drive on these roads unless we have to and we don't have to. So stay here and spend our money on a few things.

         It is amazing how busy this place is open 24 hours a day. I was inside at 6:30 this morning and families were actually there grocery shopping with their young children too. This afternoon this place is a real zoo!

        Wanna thank ya'll for stopping by to see how we making out and hopefully we can git outta here tomorrow and make our way to Arizona, it better weather there than here thats for sure, even if just marginally.

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

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