We headed East out of Tucson on I-10 Thursday morning saying goodbye to our old stomping grounds where we spent the first 5 years of our marriage, had Francesca, and had a good run with the U of A. We knew the drive ahead was going to be hopefully uneventful through West Texas. It's like medicine, you have to just hunker down and do it.
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| A hill just east of Tucson |
Rolling hills soon gave way to flat, brown landscape. Making a push to get through Texas, we had decided to change our original plans and aim for sites in San Antonio and Houston rather than spend time in New Mexico. We had missed the one day they open White Sands Trinity site by one week. Also caving at Carlsbad did not interest us either. So we loaded an audio book into the CD player and headed East.
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| West Texas...flat with hills in the distance |
Around 6 PM we located Balmoryae State Park on the Garmen and headed for that for the night. It turned out to be a very nice camping ground with water and electric hookups for RVs.
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| Our campsite at Balmorhea State Park in Texas |
The next morning,, Friday, Oct 15, we continued East on I-10. As we did in Kansas, we passed huge wind farms. So why can't we have wind farms on the many hills of Massachusetts?
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| A wind farm in West Texas |
That afternoon we arrived at San Antonio and for the first time we saw the Alamo. Two thoughts struck us: One, for a place that had a fierce battle, it was now a peaceful oasis in the center of downtown San Antonio. Second thought, it was amazing that so much had been preserved in the center of such a modern downtown.
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| At the Alamo |
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| Alamo |
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| Outside compound wall at the Alamo in downtown San Antonio |
We continued East for another hour and once again found a nice state park, Stephen Austin State Park in San Felipe, Texas about an hour west of Houston. Have I mentioned that we really like state parks and prefer them to private campgrounds. And the nice surprise for us are the amount of state parks that have water and electric hookups.
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| Our campsite west of Houston at Stephen Austin State Park |
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