A great travel day, another time zone and a minor repair.

Where are we today ?

Flying J Tye Texas

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        After another great night's sleep, walkabout the rest area, coffee's and computing just waiting for the sunrise . So that we can head east and drive into the morning sun. Hey, got sunglasses and a sun visor they work great !

another wonderful sunrise

       On the road by 7:15 this morning, no wind or rain is good. So let's see how far we can go. Nothing we want to see on this route, 'cause we have seen it before. So a couple longer travel days in then we can have some downtime and take it easy.

a few water towers for me and Patsy

        The speed limit here is 80mph  (128kph) not for us mostly around 63mph (101 kph)  but the roads are good and no traffic feels good. Gas mileage today after 420 miles still not bad at 7.6 mpg still better than normal, can't complain at 22,000 lbs plus towing our car.

too fast for us
80 mph !

      Stopped at this safety rest area in Texas very nice. A tornado shelter in case we need it. decided to make a bite to eat for lunch here, was time.

tornado shelter 

even a play area for the kids,
during a tornado?

        Passing through Midland Texas area lots of oil fields and refineries, not pretty but is needed and creates jobs.

         Below is the Walmart we stopped at on Dec 6th 2013 for a night. Looks much more inviting now then back in 2013.

         If your have followed us for a while do you remember back on Dec 6th 2013 we pulled into this Walmart in Midland Texas, really sunny warm Wednesday afternoon. You can check a posting HERE  if you like, next morning we got up with very cold temps and very bad weather. We ended spending the next 3 nights here with snow, freezing rain and black ice.  Much nicer there now.

yup we here for 3 nights,
not gonna drive on black ice

        Next rest area I checked our coach as usual, and the right rear compartment I fixed a few days ago was having issues.  3 of the 4 new pop rivets I had installed were broken so need another repair.

opps not good

    So I got my drill, rivet gun out replaced the broken ones and installed 3 more in a new place between. gotta keep an eye on this.

got the tools so I can fix

        Now further on down the road was so nice to see GREEN grass in the medion  have not see that since last fall.  Wonderful!

       Finally pulled into the Flying J here in Tye Texas. 3:15 pm (but new time zone AGAIN ! 4:15 pm. Fueled up and snagged a nice parking spot for the night,

        Suzie wanted a snack so a couple of these Tornadoes (2 for 3 bucks) tasty they were.

         Now a few walkabouts the truck stop, check out the trucks and the store, read and compute for a bit then and easy quick supper. The rest of our Turkey chilli, tasty, and a few veggies sure hit the spot for us.

love chilli even more after a few days
all gone now

        That was another fun travel day making good time, tomorrow we heading north east abit and probably stop there for 4 days. Hopefully some back roads to explore.

        Thanks once again for stopping in and hope y'all had a great day too !

416 miles today
longer again thank we like.
it was going good so why not?

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