Another time zone, just moving right along to Midland Texas, Much better weather than our last visit here, we hope, then Rousted.

Where are we today ?

 Walmart Midland Texas

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     A good night's sleep last night, and on the road about 8 am just waiting for the sun to get a bit higher in the sky.

looking west from the rest are at 7 am, clear blue skies

     This trailer across from us had a nice picture on the back. And even a nicer tractor pulling it,

tractor pulling that trailer,
now that is a long haul trucker

          Hopped back on 1-10 heading east then made a left turn onto I-20 heading more east, the roads good, the weather good, had a few mountains our coach did not like that slowed us down a bit, (she is getting old ya know, 18 years already).
        Just took our time no hurry. East on I-20 we coming to the oil fields and they go on forever it seems.

Oil fields Midland Texas

water tower for Patsy

     The first rest area on I-20 is huge and it is also a Tornado shelter. very impressive to see, hope we don't need to use it for a tornado but nice to know its here.

the restrooms are tornado shelters

even a play area here for the kids?
you send them out when a tornado comes??

 a huge shelter

     Made lunch here then moved on down the road to the flying J in Odessa TX. top up our gas so we good to go in the morning.

     We arrived at the Walmart in Midland Texas at 2 pm, but now is in the central time zone was 3 pm  only one hour earlier than back home now, so  think we will call it a day. Two time zones in 2 days. We have exciting memories of this Walmart from Dec. 2013.

        Dec 4th 2013 we were on our way west and pulled into this Walmart here in Midland Texas on a beautiful warm sunny day. Next morning we woke up to Freezing rain and sleet . Hum pulled in our slide and hunkered down. You can read about the our next 3 days here in this Walmart. Click HERE.

What an experience that was.

1st day of the ice storm Dec 5th 2013

much better weather today

      Now here we are set up for the night, picked up a few groceries and a Market fresh pizza to cook. It was an ultimate meat one that Suzie likes, then of course I add stuff to make it even better. Like fresh mushrooms, onions, asparagus, broccoli, fresh tomato, more cheese, and olives and jalapeno

peppers,  on my half. Took care of another pizza craving that was awesome and of course more leftovers for breakfast or lunch.

all dressed and ready for the oven

25 minutes at 400f  and done

what a great way to satisfy a craving
for a reasonable price

       That was another great travel day, making good time, one more day then relax for a while in some still nice warm weather.

        Below is the map of todays travels.

276 Miles today

       Walkabout a bit more around the store then post this blog and watch the tube for a bit before calling it a night.
       Thanks for stopping by again and hope y'all had a wonderful day.


    After this was posted we were getting ready for bed just after 9 pm. Knock on the door, Security stopped by to tell us as well as the 5 truckers and 4 rv's that the manager asked him to tell us to leave. I explained to him I checkout at customer service at 3 pm to see if we could park overnight, they would not let me talk to the manager told me to see security in the parking lot. We looked and looked for security, and I chased them down at one time on foot but never did get his attention. We would not have stayed here if we had known.  He said no problem , just doing my job, you will be fine here. We won't be back at this Walmart again, we did spend about $70.00 in groceries, never again here.

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