The Texas Hill country is beautiful. It is rolling country, with low trees, junipers and mesquite. The whole area is very lightly populated. The county that Van Horn is in has less than one person per square mile.
We arrived in Van Horn before 3 PM Central Time, and stopped at an interesting junk store. The woman running the store wore a dirty railroad hat and a denim shirt. She loved it there, and was a fourth grade teacher who ran the junk store on weekends. There were sculptures made of junk in the yard. When Richard asked about who made the sculptures, she said that her husband loved junk. We bought a couple of old albums in mint condition. The store was right next to Chuy's Mexican restaurant, where John Madden stops to eat. We decided it was too early to stop, especially since we would gain an hour between Van Horn and El Paso, so we drove to El Paso.
As we got further west, it got more arid. We saw a few trailers out in the middle of the high desert, where people are living. Closer to El Paso, in the Rio Grande valley, we could see irrigated pastures and green fields.
We are staying at the Mission RV park, on the outskirts of El Paso. It was time to get out of the truck. We went to Saturday evening mass at a new church.
The guy in the next spot at the campground leads RV trips into Mexico for Tracks to adventure. He and his wife are full time RVers; they do not have a house, just a beautiful Class A motor home. Ray and Richard talked Mexico.
Marianne took the gulf shrimp from Aransas Pass out of the freezer, and we had a great shrimp dinner.
We are 475 miles from Sun City West. We will tour our way to there, and arrive Monday afternoon. Sunday is Gracie's birthday, tax day.
Richard and Marianne
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