We spent 3 days cleaning and stocking up in Misson Texas with 6 other caravan couples. Sunday night, we went out for Chinese food and it was the best I'd ever tasted. We started across Texas , Tuesday, March 6. The local chain stores here are, H.E.B., a food store, Dollar General, Beall's Fashion, Whataburger and Lone Star National Bank. Amusing road signs were ' Drive Friendly' and ' Replace Sunday Drive with Sunday Walk'.
The Spaniards established Catholic Missions in 1761 and Texas won Independence from Mexico in 1836 and became a state in 1845. The cowboys and derricks searching for 'black gold' or 'texas tea' are on the wane and manufacturing, aerospace, finance, insurance and real estate are tops today. There are 20 million people in Texas but we're following the Rio Grande, the river that separates it from Mexico and it's as sparsely populated as it was 300 years ago, due to this thorny country made up of bunch grass, prickly pear, cactus and sweet grass that the cattle eat.
Arrived at Del Rio, 330 miles, no campground, so a first for us - good old Wal Mart overnight.
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