Moving on down the road, back roads to I-10 and heading west.

Where are we today ?

Sonora Texas rest area

         Well we are on the road again this morning and all excited. Get to head to Southern Arizona and California, places we really enjoy. Relax here for a bit until the skies clear and on the road at 7:30 this morning. Into Willis and stop at Kroger' gas bar fuel our coach.

the moon setting this morning in Willis Texas

        Good deal here we have their loyalty card and get a discount 10 cents a gallon puts the price at $2.25 a gallon (.68 cents a litre in Canada with a 15 % exchanged rate, compared to $1.07 a ltre there), too bad we only needed 20 gallons, could have gotten up to 35 gallons with the discount. No problem its a great deal.

        We headed out taking the back roads and enjoying the drive, no traffic, no trucks and wonderfully good roads. We eventually arrived at our chosen destination, a very nice Texas rest area on I-10 just past Sonora Texas at 4 pm.

349 miles today

       We are loving these fuel prices thats for sure.

excellent roads

       Small Texas towns are wonderful and so scenic.

Train coming through town we just waited it out

      Next big city was Austin Texas, no problem saturday, not much traffic and was a breeze. These amazing bridges and overpasses we would not want to do during rush hour, but today was great. travelling on the weekends is perfect.

going through Austin Texas

next, Texas hill country, wonderful scenery

Stonewall Texas

      Then right through downtown Fredericksburg and very busy German heritage tourist town not unlike Kitchener/Waterloo back home. Crowds lining the streets.

       Now onto I-10 heading west Our Destination today is the Texas Rest area just past Sonora Texas.  A convenient stopping spot for us right on time at 4 pm. Travelled enough today. Get out stretch again, walkabout, have a cold beverage and whip up supper. Tonight a Turkey Pot pie. So easy and quick to do when on the road. For the recipe click HERE.  Just added a small salad and hit the spot, leftovers for tomorrows supper as well.

rolling west on I-10 not much traffic

nice rest area

we are set for the night

rest rooms

not too busy, but a bit of road noise, that we can deal with

15 minutes for the crescent rolls, 10 more for the pie

sure hit the spot today

we even had a not too bad of a sunset as well.

       Was a perfect travel day, not too hot or cold not much wind and very little traffic.  Making good time, more miles than we like to do in a day, but we are a couple weeks behind where we would like to be. But nothing that we can't do. We have travelled this route many times and seen most of the sights over the years so not a big problem

        Thanks again for stopping by,  hope you had a wonderful day as well.

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

 Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Winter.