And on Southward to Warmer Weather

Nov 1st
Another short day. From Loredo to Mission. Found and checked in to Chimney Park RV Resort. Very pleasantly surprised. It is a nice park. I asked and received site #74 right on the Rio Grande River. In fact the back of ELTORO is likely only 20 ft from the edge of the river.

View of the Park as you come over the Levee

The Office, Pool, and Hot Tub

At the back of ELTORO

 Just settled in and did little all afternoon. Just enjoyed the sights and surroundings

Oct 31st
A short drive today from Del Rio to Laredo. We just decided to make two short days rather than one long one to reach our destination at Mission, TX. Half way was in Loredo. We have always stayed at a small unknown RV Park just north of the  junction of 83 / 95 near Webb. Its a very "Plain Jane" stop, but nice people run it and it is handy.

 I think we have stopped here at least 4 or 5 times on previous trips. We were here by shortly after noon and settled in for a quiet afternoon.
.Oct 30th
Down the road to Del Rio today. Not a real exciting day but there was a few things to see.  One thing that we found very interesting was the purple sage (at least that is what we think it is ) is in bloom right now. It is quite beautiful along the road and out into the desert.

We, also always like the very horizontal rock formations along the highway in the cuts through the hills in this area. It would almost look like the highways had built flat rock retaining walls to hold back the dirt, but we know this is a natural phenomena. But neat!!  On down the road we did see a couple of deer, and an odd oil rig. Pretty Barren Land!!

Not much to see

Straight Roads - Why would you want a curve??

How About That - A Rig

And a Cotton Field in Bloom

 Then some small animal crossed the road in front of us. Size of a small badger, but not as flat, with a tail that stuck up. Not sure what that was. I will search in Google!  Arrived in Del Rio early and stopped at Holiday Trav-l RV Park. We had reserved this morning before leaving Fort Stockton and was adised our site with a map would be taped to the door as the office shuts down on Sundays at noon. Low and behold, there it was, along with a few others. Ours was site 42. Good one with a couple of trees. We settled in and as the weather was soo nice we just sat outside and read for a couple of hours before Denice made up some stew/soup for dinner.
Oct 29th
Waited around at the RV park for a while this AM until the fog lifted, Yes, you read it right, Fog in the desert, Really, and it was thick!! Sun started to burn through about 9:00AM so we ventured out. Soon after we were out of Roswell it started to lift, and it was clear sailing all day. We stopped in Artesia, as we wanted to take some pictures of some large neat bronze sculptures that we failed to take pictures of when we went through a couple of years back. We walked around down town and took what we needed and then on down the road, Highway 285.

A Bronze Dedicated to the Oil Drilling Industry

Two Old Boys Chatting over Events While Leaning on an Old Ford

Now Here is a Park Bench that won't go Missing

Nice Rock Formations

Another Life Size Bronze

And Another

Next town was Carlsbad, but we have been to the caverns a couple of times before, so just continued on south. They are re-building the main drag through Carlsbad so traffic is narrowed, and I do mean narrowed to 2 very narrow lanes through the city for a few miles. Mirrors were almost hitting signs along the right side of ELTORO and good thing not too many trucks to meet, or I'm sure we could have had a mirror collision there. You'd have thunk they could have found a detour around their construction. Oh Well!!  then on south and east to Pecos, cross I 20 and on to Fort Stockton and I 10. We found a new RV park south a couple of miles on 285 called Parkview RV Park. Its nothing fancy at 20 bucks per night, but it is pretty high class compared to the I 10 RV park we stopped at a couple of years ago.
Oct 28th

Albuquerque Median Decoration

Snapped these as we were leaving Albuquerque

On the road by about 8:30AM this morn. Headed south down I 25. Stopped for gas ($140 - $3.39/gal), then continued south to a little town of San Antonio ( Not the Texas City) then turned east on 380 through Carrizozo and on to Join 70. Then on to Roswell and the RV Park. No little green men around either.