December 6

Saturday December 6

I include “Saturday” because I’m starting to forget what day of the week it is…

Today was a bit of Louisiana and then Texas, Texas, and Texas. Route 20 all day. Everything went fine, and we enjoyed the large blue skies, streaky clouds, sun, not much traffic, no trouble with Dallas and Fort Worth on the weekend. We progressed swimmingly. Today’s goal changed a few times but in the end we settled on Pecos.

Have you ever been to Pecos? Don’t.

There’s a Denny’s at a truck stop. It’s a third world Denny’s. There was no entry for the RV via the truck stop side and no RV parking space at the Denny side and no decent way out, so Henk wormed the RV around alongside the parked cars, aimed at the car exit. We never waited so long for our food in a restaurant with a trusted name; eventually Henk asked what took them so long, I mentioned we would go to the local Pizza Hut – then lo and behold,  the food suddenly arrived. Which was tasty, but there was no service to speak of. Henk decided not to wait another half an hour to get the bill, so he left all our cash, which was just enough to cover the food. The drinks were obviously on the house and there was no tip.

Then there’s a “Super”WalMart in Pecos. It isn’t. It’s sad. We stopped for bottled water (yes), cash (surprise, yes), and a box of eggs (one box with broken eggs, we declined). We’ll have oatmeal for breakfast tomorrow!

The saddest part is that the Pizza Hut is probably also below par. Just like the big name grocery store in the low income neighborhood near Lisa, these big name stores/restaurants are in a low income town. Poor people, poor education, poor work skills, poor store maintenance. So, as far as we’re concerned, Pecos will be only a mile marker on the map.

Tomorrow we’re having a day off: we’re going to Carlsbad to see the caverns!