Moving Westward

Good morning friends,

We have finally gone outside our comfort zone. By that I mean we have left the places we were already familiar with and began staying at places we are visiting for the first time. We are also leaving Texas.

We drove along HWY 29 out of Georgetown and the wild flowers were incredible!  

Our first stop was in Junction TX where we boondocked for free on a city park beside the Llano river. Really nice and the weather was in the high 70s during the day and high 50s at night. No AC required. We parked right beside a small dam and listened to the water all night. Very cool.

This park had flooded pretty severely last year so there were a few trees which had been broken off. A local chain saw artist worked on the stumps and made them an attraction. Here is one of them

We left Junction headed for another free city park in Levelland Tx. Believe it or not this park provides free utilities (electric and water) and they also have a dump station. How cool is that! But when we arrived there was a road construction crew who had the entrance to the park dug up for repairs and there was no way in.  Ugh!

Fortunately there was another similar park 25 miles away in Littlefield TX, which is the home town of country music legend Waylon Jennings. And you guessed it, the park was named in his honor. Because it was late when we got there and was raining pretty steady, we neglected to get pictures (these are web shots). Suffice it to say we had a gravel site with 30A electric and water, and it was all free!

This morning we awoke to 42 degrees and a slight drizzle. We hit the road early, officially going west out of Texas. We we're headed toward New Mexico on Hwy 84. Our destination was Tijeras NM. 

Along the way I found my legacy. I never dreamed there was a Terry county in Texas. Since I am the only Terry, it must be named for me! (Pic of GPS screen showing that we were in Brownfield city, Terry county, and the great state of Texas)

Of course no border crossing would be complete without the welcome sign picture. For us this is the first of many to come. By the way, it seems that crappy little border towns are the norm for both old and New Mexico 😁

The drive into NM took us up in elevation to as high as 7,000 ft. The temps kept dropping and got as low as 33 degrees when our GPS started warning of icy roads. This is what we were seeing. 

Yes, in fact that is snow. We ended up pulling off the side of the road for a bit until the road cleared but we were toasty in our RV. We made lunch and a pot of coffee and watched the snow fall.  It was honestly a pretty cool (no pun intended) drive. 

We made it unscathed to our destination, Hidden Valley RV Park where we have a site perched on the side of a mountain. The park is a bit of a rack-n-stack (small sites side by side) but its only 20 miles outside of Albuquerque with incredible views. 

We plan to be here for 5 days and have a meet-up planned with some friends Kris and Jan.  They are going to show us the memorable locations where Breaking Bad was filmed around Albuquerque. How cool!

When we leave here we head to Moab Utah to visit several national parks. 

That drive will be about 250 miles but we'll just count that as 2 installments of... The Next Hundred Miles 😀