Saturday, January 21st - Anthony, TX to Fort Stockton, TX - 280 miles

 The overnight low in Anthony was 24 degrees last night. I'm glad I unhooked our water. Today's high, as we travelled, was in the mid 50's. It was windy all day.

Some of the interchanges in El Paso look like they should be in LA.

Taken while on I10 in El Paso. All the buildings you see are in Mexico.

I wonder if the fence in the photo below is the "border wall"?

As you are driving along you begin to wonder how you are going to get over the mountains.

Then you see the road curve toward an area where they aren't as high. Soon thereafter see a sign for a "slow lane" ahead. Then you climb from 4,100' to 4,600' in 4 miles. Most of todays miles were at elevations over 4,000', a fair amount was on mesas over 4,500'.

An "inspection station". All commercial traffic was  routed down the lane on the far right. All other traffic was routed down this lane. Under the roof  there were several Border Patrol agents in kiosks. You had to stop and talk to one. A sign said everyone was to have their ID papers available. Our agent just asked if everyone in the RV was a US citizen, Kathy said yes and he waved us through.

A utility company was adding large concrete poles, in a very rural area. I'm not sure why it took all these bucket trucks to work on one pole.

We stopped for lunch at a rest area. I had not run our generator for well over a month. Onan recommends running their generators for an hour a month, under 50% load. We didn't really need any heat but it was cool in the coach. I figured this would be a good time to run ours. I fired it up and started turning on things to load it. I turned on the water heater and both heat pumps. The Kathy started turning things on. She plugged in the Bunn coffee maker, her teapot and started the microwave. I bet that the refrigerator was also running. All of a sudden we lost the AC, even though the generator was still running. We learned that we can overload our 8 KW generator and trip the breaker on the generator. I shut the generator off. After we got to the campground I  pulled it out, reset the breaker and started it up. Everything worked fine.

Parked at Fort Stockton Resort & RV Park. This place is perfect for what we want for an overnight stay. $35/night, all taxes included, for a level site with good access in and out. The WiFi is decent and DirecTV is included. It is NOT a resort. We had about a foot to spare before one end would have hung out in the road.

 

There appear to be quite a few long term residents. All around the perimeter of the park are roofed areas for parking RV's, 94 of them. I assume the main purpose is to provide shade during the hot summer months. There are also 105 "open" sites.

The window AC unit in this trailer is an alternative to the mini split I mentioned yesterday. I've never seen a travel trailer with so few windows.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.