Trip Stats

I'm late posting this. The slog on Interstate 10 doesn't produce many blog worthy moments. This trip is over with. We left on the 20th of May and arrived here yesterday, the 4th of August. Jenny calculated 77 days. It was a long outing,  The weeds have gotten the upper hand in both of my vegetable gardens. Here is what I've come up with for stats: We put 6760 miles on the MP. We drove the truck 2546 miles. The truck doesn't register miles when it's being towed but the tires certainly do. We stayed in 7 state parks, 7 National Parks, 6 Koa's, 10 independent commercial campgrounds, 1 Harvest Host (a winery) and 2 driveways. We stored the MP for a total of 15 days while we house boated on Lake Powell and visited 3 National Parks in Utah with our A&M friends. Fuel was expensive. We were very happy to pay less than $5 for diesel. That only happened a couple of times. I pumped 10 gallons of Reefer fuel into the MP not really knowing what it was. AI said it was fine, but illegal. Look that up if you're interested. California diesel was a tad under $8. I needed DEF pretty badly and I bought 2 1/2 gallons at a Loves for $40. That same DEF costs $19 at Walmart. I am boycotting Loves from now on. That's about it for our summer trip. The MP has a few issues that we'll need to address before we go out again. We actually need to attend to a few things on the Mercedes also. That's gonna be it for davejennyjournal for a while. Oh, one more thing, today is my birthday. I'm not celebrating but we did have some cake.

Lafayette La.

425 miles. We have stayed at this KOA quite a few times. It looks like it's going to take us 4 more nights. We always stop at a KOA 30 miles from home in order to flush the tanks and prepare the MP for storage. The pic was taken at a rest area in Louisiana.

Jerome's driveway

We made it to SA in one piece. You might not be aware that Texas has received a bunch of rain this summer. Instead of the ugly brown dead grass cooking in the unmercilous summer sun, everything is green. Now the sun is still unmercilous but everything is still green. That made the drive here from Marathon a little more enjoyable. It looks like we will be continuing our journey home on Friday. The pic is Jenny showing Jerome some vacation pics.

Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center

After we got moved back into the MP we drove 50 miles to Fort Davis to experience the Desert Nature Center. I had no idea there were so many plants that grow in the Desert. They were all labeled. It was just too much. It was interesting but it was overwhelming. Tomorrow we have a long drive into San Antonio. I have a bad feeling that we are going to get involved with rush hour.

Gage Hotel Marathon Tx

Marathon is one of our traditional stopovers when we are headed home from a trip out west. We have stayed at the Gage Hotel several times over the years. The MP is parked across the street from the hotel. We will be in Marathon tomorrow but we are going to move a few hundred yards down the road to the RV park. One of the attractions here is the hotel restaurant. I have no idea how they attracted a chef out here but he or she is spectacular. Expensive but really good. We are close to Big Bend NP. Homeland security has been threatening to build a wall along the river through the park. No one here seems to be in favor of that plan. Not sure what we will do tomorrow. We are dragging our feet in order to arrive in SA on the 28th.

El Paso

Today was an interstate 10 slog. We have decided to have a hotel stay tomorrow, so we will be in The Gage Hotel in Marathon. The road behind the MP is the interstate. We are on the East side of El Paso. I'll post something from the hotel tomorrow.

Wilcox day 2

This stop is our last planned stop. We literally don't know where we are going to be tomorrow or the day after. We are shooting for SA on the 28th but that's the only thing we have on the calendar. I did the hike today that I mentioned yesterday. It was pretty grueling. There was a 1 mile loop at the top that wandered around those weird hoodoos. Jenny thinks her hip might be feeling better. She took that sunset picture yesterday.