Texas

Our RV Park gave us a buy one, get one free coupon for breakfast at the Petro TA Truck Plaza. I made my own small waffle, which was shaped like Texas and also enjoyed some hot pepper soup - had a hint of chilies in it. It's Martin Luther King Day here, honoring him for his work to achieve racial equality. We're close to the Rio Grande, with Mexico on the other side, and there's Border Patrol vehicles every few miles. We're heading straight East in I10 into the middle of Texas. West Texas is flat now . What used to be a rich hunting ground of buffalo, wild turkeys and waterfowl for the American Indians, and ranchland after the Civil War, has had most water springs deferred to irrigation and is now prairie grass, yucca and greasedwood. Very dry and arrid. By noon, we are following the Texas Mountain Trail. We're going past flat topped hills, mesas, that look like they were all levelled off. Saw some windmills like they have in Palm Springs. These generate enough electricity for 30,000 home using 107 wind turbines. It's the Southwest Mesa Wind Project, one of the world's largest and most productive wind power projects. Cold, even saw frost on the cactus.
We got to Ozona, about 350 miles into Texas to overnight.